Recent content by vitoma

I have brewed identical beers back to back, with the only difference being that one beer had pellet hops, and the other beer had leaf hops. (Isn't anecdotal evidence great?) There was no perceptible difference in the taste of the beer. The only differences were trivial: the first glass...

I am en experienced homebrewer, and most of my equipment is designed for 5-5.5 gallons. I am kind of thinking about trying out a wine using one of the standard wine kits from the LHBS. I have a 5 gallon better bottle that I have used for making apfelwine in the past that I would like to use...

Honestly, if it comes with everything that is pictured there (other than the picnic table, grass and fence :P), I think it is a pretty good deal. A SS pot can run around that much by itself.

I'd be interested in one.

If you do prime with sugar, be sure to use kegs that seal up nicely with out a lot of pressure. I have a keg that needs a decent amount of constant pressure to keep it sealed. I dumped in the sure, and sealed it up with decent pressure, only to find flat beer with no pressure in the keg when...

Buy beer? Surely, you jest.

I brewed this ag. I sparged a bit too much, and I ended up with around 6 gallons in the fermentor. It is simply amazing. My friends _love_ this beer. I think I am going to be brewing this on a regular basis.

I brew at my friend's house. Since he is too lazy to take the hose for the wort chiller inside, it is too cold to brew whenever the hose freezes. :(

I took the disconnect apart to see if I could figure out what the problem was. I had put the pin in upside down the last time I cleaned it. Luckily, it looks like I had broken off a non-essential piece of the pin. Lesson learned.

On pin locks, you would have to render the disconnect completely useless if you put it on the wrong post. Instead of a slightly different size, pin lock kegs use different numbers of pins on the bottom of the posts that the disconnect latches onto.

Over the weekend, I took a corny keg (pin lock) to a family gathering. When I tried to put the liquid disconnect on, it wouldn't go down very easily. I proceeded to push on it pretty hard (terrible idea, right?), and the pin in the disconnect bent. I tried bending the plastic pin back, but it...

If you can find it, pale ale malt can be considered a reasonable substitute (not pale malt, it is actually called "pale ale malt"). I picked up a bag once for about the same price as standard 2-row(iirc the bag I bought was rahr). I believe it was designed by american malters to imitate...

I brewed up a super high gravity Belgian once and it bubbled away forever like yours is doing. It is actually still aging, but the last bottle I snuck out tasted amazing.

Depending how long the kegs are going to be sitting warm, you might also want to naturally carb them with some sugar.

If you are using the standard size spigot, it will still take just as long. The spigot will still be a choke point that limits the flow.