Recent content by tomridder

I bought a growler of Karl Strauss Windad sea Heff. I drak most of it and noticed some sediment on the bottom of the growler. So I bouled up 800ml of wort, let the little bit of beer warm to room temp, cooled the wort and carefully dumped it in. After 48 hours the stuff started to ferment. 24...

Two weeks ago we boiled our first batch of all grain heff 10# wheat 10# pilsner Hallatau hoops 60 min White Labs 1600 ml yeast starter The recipe said ferment at 64 deg F 10-14 days and bottle. Well it is 14 days and the ferment lock is still bubbling every 15 seconds. We had a rigorous ferm in...

Hey I am an enigineer so I am not supposed to be able to schpell.

Yes this in an immersion chiller. Copper coil to be exact.

I think you must have picker up the smaller pump. Did you use the numbers from the PDF I posted? The one I have fits a 3/4" I.D. garden hose perfectly.

I got the towel idea from the instructions I read on a wort chiller at the local home brew shop. The towel was fresh out of the dryer and soaked in sanitizing solution for 30 min prior to use. So I think any bugs would have been deceased. It seamed better than leaving it wide open.

For the price, this pump is the ticket. A smaller cooler would work just as good. The water in the one shown was still very cold when we were done.

Yesterday I brewed ny second batch of beer. I was frustrated over how long it took me too cool dowm my wort on batch no. 1. So I made myself the usual copper coil wort chiller. Living here in So. Cal, I did not want to hook up a garden hose and waist all of that water. So I got out my big...

It has been two weeks since I boiled my wart. I still have yeast rafts/clumps per the picture. The stuff is still moving around but a good bit od it has settled. Should I just keep waiting until I bottle?

I will look at the package and let you know. Thanks for you help.

I used a Wyeast Pack

This is my fisrt batch of pale ale. There is something floating around in my carboy. I showed this picture to the guy at the home brew shop and he does not know what it is. He said it may be the yeast. It smells fine and tasted fine when I transfered ti to the carboy. It had this stuff in the...