Recent content by TKH

I made a kettle soured Berliner Weisse a couple weeks ago and just kegged it. To my chagrin the overwhelming aroma is baby puke even though, IMHO, the beer tastes great. Is there something I could have done to kill this aroma? I boiled for about a half hour after three days of kettle souring at...

I finished up a kettle soured Berliner Weisse in the Grainfather yesterday and was amazed at how simple the process was! Mashed 8lbs of grain, brought it down to 110degrees, pitched uncrushed grain, let sit for a day, checked ph, sparged and boiled! The Grainfather held the temperature at 110...

Do you have to use the potassium if you're going to chill and keg it as soon as it is back sweetened? Or is this a bad idea?

5 gallons Centennial Blonde 5 gallons Pliney clone =509

Yes. I've just been wrapping it in a big beach towel to provide a little insulation until the graincoat gets here. It takes a while to get to temp but you hardly notice because you can be doing other things. Even the towel probably isn't necessary but it keeps a little bit of the heat from...

Cutterman and Yambor, thanks for the discussion. It helped me as well.

Did my first brew on the GF yesterday. The thing is awesome! It's easier than extract batches! I put the mash in and then met a client for lunch. Came back and wort was clear and beautiful, ready for sparging. It took a while to get to boil but hopefully the grain coat will help. Oddly they...

Got this in the Grainfather now. Cheap grain bill and smells awesome! Can't wait to try it! Thanks

I believe that's how the temp controller works. It cools it down by one or two degrees more than target and then once temperature gets more than one to two degrees above temp it kicks in again. As m00ps pointed out, this setting should be adjustable. However, you don't want your compressor...

As Darth Duane and others have pointed out, check your local Asian market for ginger. It was $4lb at Wal-Mart but only $1.39lb at the Vietnamese market. I've got a 5 gallon batch on the stove now, trying part splenda, part turbinado, and part brown sugar. Also, I'm using limequats rather than...

I ordered my Grainfather last week. It'll be my first all grain experience. How are you heating your sparge water? And are you just pouring it over as suggested by the Grainfather directions or have you rigged up something else? Thanks

Again, thanks all. Looks like I'll be up in early December for face to face meetings. If I can squeeze in an extra day or two, I hope I can take one or a couple of you out for beers and pick your brains! Funny you say that. This is my front yard... Except it's a house.

Thanks, all. I appreciate the honest feedback. We've got some thinking to do.

I received a surprising call from my company asking if I'd like a position in Denver. I am well equipped to decide based on the job alone. What I don't have knowledge of is Denver, what it's like to live there, cost of living, and the feel of the city. I'm recently married and kids are on the...

Sorry for the late response. The fans for which the holes were cut blow air from outside the bar around the freezer and out the cracks around the front panel. I believe this helps cool the freezer so that it doesn't have to work too hard and meet an early grave. My understanding is that...