Recent content by Tripod

Woop Woop!! I'm so happy to announce that I finally stepped up and joined the AG crew! My lovely swimbo hooked me up with a 15 gallon Stainless Steel and propane-burner set up last christmas and I've been building a dedicated fermentation chamber so I could finally do this. The inagural...

I just built one of these last weekend for going AG. I got lucky in a local Ace Hardware and found SS cut washers that were plenty big enough for this setup. Can't wait to try it out!

What kind of capper are you using? My wife bought me a bench capper. Way easier than the two-handed type. Highly recommend!

Subcribed. There are some excellent looking loaves here!

:off: Oh man. If only I could hop forward (pun intended) on a time machine and taste that 5-year barleywine! I'm planning something for my 40th next August as well. No comparison to the big 5-0 but certainly a milestone worth brewing for...as if I need an excuse.

This is where having a pipeline going helps a lot. Brew more. Brew often.

I'll definitely add that book to my ever expanding library. Thanks for the tip! I did a little more digging on the subject of blending and came across this site on "Blending and the art of salvage". I was hoping to find some equations but the author describes in detail how he adds a portion...

Excellent info! So your original calculation makes more sense the way you stated it here. Also, I was misreading gravity units as gravity points in your other post so it threw me for a loop. It wouldn't be the first time! :D Gravity Units = (volume)x(SG-1) So where did you come accross...

Mine was a smaller bottle for around $7.50 I believe. It doesn't take much at all...

That's where the math gets fuzzy for me. I'm actually pretty good at math but I'm not positive if the above method is the correct way to calculate the total gravity from two different worts that are combined. I'm not saying you are wrong...just that I don't know for certain. :mug: That's what...

Me too! The results so far are grand. Hence the title "I did NOT ruin my beer". This is coming across so far like a Light IPA. Not heavy at all and very quaffable but the flavor profile is pretty close to what it should be. I'll know for sure once it is bottled and matures a bit. -Tripod

ooooo you just beat me to it! :mug:

+1 more to Yooper's post. The balance of the ratio is a better story to tell. I found this graph on HBT a while back and it may be helpful. It compares OG against IBUs and shows how balance can be achieved for any level of both. You can see how 40 IBUs will be "extra hoppy" in a beer...

It's time for an overdue update on this attempt to fix a broken batch. It ended up being Sunday before I could get around to dry-hopping and testing the batch but what I found waiting for me was very nice! First of all, the scent coming from the carboy was heavenly...first test = pass...

Some of these are really creative!