Recent content by weaselburner

Hey, all. hopefully i can stop bugging y'all on this topic soon but i just had a quick question on materials for building a heat stick. http://www.3d0g.net/brewing/heatstick suggests that i use a 12" chrome drain pipe. Chrome seems to be hard to find and i was wondering if it's just an...

le cry. i am seriously at a loss. i can't use propane and have 20 amps to work with. i just may need to buy beer for the next 18months till i can get a new place to live. perhaps i can bring half of it to a boil in my kitchen and run it down to the garage after? then i'd have 2 heat sources...

Alright. Since propane is outa the question at my new rental house I've been trying to think of a good alternative for boiling in my garage. what i came up with is basically using the design for a heat stick from http://http://hbd.org/pcalinsk/HeatStk3.htm but instead of a 120V 1440Watt heating...

Alright. Since propane is outa the question at my new rental house I've been trying to think of a good alternative for boiling in my garage. what i came up with is basically using the design for a heat stick from http://http://hbd.org/pcalinsk/HeatStk3.htm but instead of a 120V 1440Watt heating...

that is precisely the link i needed! thanks much, man!

hrmmm i've seen mention before of just such a heating element. the one i saw only ran 12amps. you guys think i should build a 20amp instead?

Been poking around in the e-brew section before work but i didn't see any tutorials on constructing a brew heater (i very well could just be blind). Does any helpful person out there have a link to a thread or web page where i can get the basic construction tutorial so i can construct one of these?

Hey, guys. I just moved into a new house with some friends and received the garage as a designated brewing dungeon! I'm trying to set up a stove of some kind in there for boiling but am having a couple problems. The lease we're in doesn't let us store flammables at the house which means propane...

i long ago took off the cap on my auto-siphon and now it won't go back on so i'm already working with the ideal setup!! ;)

thanks for the advice, pj. I have been much happier with my beer since i switched to 4 week primarys (partly because the flavor is more what i'm shooting for and partly 'cause it keeps the beer outa my greedy mouth longer ;) ) and this method seems like a really good way to have my cake and eat...

hrmmmm i might just knock my old schedual down from 4 weeks to 3 weeks and pitch the 3 week old yeast in higher quantity after that. i had a sneaking suspicion the time on the yeast cake itself was what was making my beer taste better than they had when i was fermenting for shorter times in...

right :D i mean after fermentation basically. hopefully i'll be seeing those times reduce once i'm pitching at the right rate though

I'm a little question maniac lately:( I've just been doing a lot of reading to fine-tune everything and keep running across things i need to understand better. As has been discussed quite a bit around here, i don't think that using a secondary is really necessary unless you're doing additions of...

thanks for the advice. clears up quite a bit of confusion for me. In my previous extract endeavors, I'd really just used flaked oats as a source of body, mouth-feel, and head retention...i forgot in AG i actually can start using them as fermentable sugar as well :cross: Hopefully i get all my...

Hey, guys. I'm amping up to try out my first AG brew and ran across a question as i was reading Designing great Beers by Ray Daniels. In the section discussing water ph adjustments it mentioned that specialty malts such as crystal roasted ect. often reduce the mash ph to acceptable levels if...