Search results

So I've got a question about mash thickness and dead space, etc. So first let me explain that I have NO dead space in my mash tun when it drains, it's a bottom drain. However my false bottom is from sabco in a keg and so it sits high enough that about 1.5 gallons of water sit below it. Now...

Well, I pretty much knew this was going to happen... first AG batch hit 60%(note this is the brew house efficiency).. I know I know, I'm being the clasic perfectionistic self that I am and would like higher efficienty. I did a fat tire clone. 11.375 lbs of grain with 1.25 q/lbs mash. My system...

I swore I wasnt going to be one of those guys that made a post about water adjustment after so many posts have been made on it, but here I am. I got my water profile back from Ward and it looks fairly nice, my issue is that the total hardness is a little high, yet if I dilute the water I go...

Well, I tried normal pipe insulation, but the foam and rubberized foam from lowes/home depot to make a silicone tubing float like what they have on the blichmann auto sparge. Before use I tested it in boiling water just to make sure, both failed miserably at that temperature. So I shot an...

So a friend of mine gave me a bottle of BB burgerbrau pilsner, which tastes almost like liquid bread. He gave it to me in the hopes of having me cultivate the yeast. I have no idea what kind of yeast is in this guy and I'd like to know so once I grow it up from the bottle I know how to use it...

So I was just finishing up the royal PITA that drilling all the holes needed for a 3 keggle brewery are and am sad to say that I waited so long to buy a certain drill bit..... I've broken quite a few kobalt brand 1/4 drill bits as part of their hole saw set on the first keggle... Then I...

So I cryo froze my first yeast this weekend. I got my hands on some fat tire yeast and decided I never wanted to run out so I got an international harvester chest freezer (for 25 bucks!!) and it holds a consistent -27 to -30 deg C. Used a 30% glycerin solution on the yeast and made at least two...

So I'm in the process of building my brewery, I have the kegs, courtesy of New Belgium (15 bucks a pop from their fortcollins brewery!). I'm using a brew troller setup and have everything except the hop and grain additions automated (yes sparge is automated). I'm using 2x LG 3-MD-HC pumps...

So I'm building a fully automated system using the brewtroller, I'll be writing some code shortly to do automatic fly sparge and it will be all setup. Anyways, I've been throwing around idea's on how to do auto fly sparge for a while, I thought about trying to use a motorized ball valve to...

So I've already brewed this, and it came out alright, but I want more chocolate flavor, and the orange is very over powering right now, but that I mean there is a lot of citrus flavor, I'd like to enahnce the orange flavor without more citrus (so coriander added to the revised, maybe reduce the...

So I've been copying recipies over from beer tools pro into beer smith and have found that the OG and FG and IBU dont line up. I setup my equipment in beersmith with what lines up with what I've had in the past brewing with my system (this is all extract brewing by the way) I've had 2...

Hello, I'm in the process of doing the research to put together a RIMS system for all grain brewing and I have a few questions about pumps. I've done a few hours of searching on pumps on the forums and it seems most people use a march or LG mag driven pump, and then try to control the flow...

So I've seen lots of threads and talk of adding things to the secondary, and I currently have a stout in a secondary that had a vanilla bean added to it. My question is, when adding things like that to the secondary how to make sure it stays sanitary so you dont get an infected beer? Should...

So I'm putting together plans to build an automated all grain system using 3 kegs I have. I'm building the keggle right now and will use it for a while before finishing the build, but I'm thinking ahead. I've seen that many people like to stop their sparge after gravity of the sparge wort hits...

Hi all, so I've been doing some reading about using eletric heating elements in SS kegs and ran into people talking about the mild steel face plate of the heating element rusting due to galvanic cathode reactions (like those in hot water heaters, go figure, lol). I saw that some people put...

Hello, I'm new to the forum and in the process of gathering the parts to build my first keggle. I'm currently going to do just the keggle and do extract brewing with maybe some grain steeping during the wart boil. I'm going to run a 5500w electric ULD heater element to heat everything so I...