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This looked like the most recent thread regarding use of a pickle bucket for a fermenter and wanted to chime in. I was given 5 pickle buckets and soaked them all in bleach vinegar for two weeks, 2 weeks with oxyclean, and a week with starsan sitting in the sun the whole time. Then brewed several...

Its not too bad as a process. Getting 3gallons of strike water to temp takes 30mins. Then heating sparge water is easily done during mash. If its cold and windy getting 5gallons to boil from 149 can take a while. Don't have my notes in front of me but I believe the last batch took about a half...

Hate double posting like this, but apparently you can request progeny of patented strains from the ARS if you do it in writing and have the sample sent to a lab or research facility. So I'm going to do exactly that. Not bad for $20.

From what I undertand, Cano patented (or at least tried to) the yeast he extracted so I'm not likely to get a sample mailed to me by way of kind request. http://www.google.com/patents/US20110293778

Title says it all, I'm curious if there's ever been a home brewer to either isolate the yeast from finished beer or receive a culture and use it? I would like to get my hands on some and see how it acts. I tried searching all over and have come up with little to nothing.

Ghetto? Oh yes...

I wouldn't bother with the extra step of drying it as an additive to wood pellets and spent grain but knowing what percentage of the yeast cake is water for calculations is handy. Weigh a sample, dehydrate and weigh again. I'd be interested in that number since I never reuse cakes and have been...

This is what stamets has for a few relevant substrate materials

What gravity do you usually stop sparging at? What else do you have laying around for substrate? Depending on those, you can prob blend to get something oysters will love.

Have to check individual viability though Agrocybe aegerita Coprinus comatus Cordycep militaris Ganoderma lucidum Grifola frondosa Hericium erinaceous Hypholoma sublateritium Hypsizygus tessulatus Laetiporus conifericola Laetiporus sulphureus "Trout" Lentinula edodes "CS-321"...

Some quick shots of stuff eating spent grains Pholiota nameko Shiitake (foggy from the humidifier)

We've used all kinds of crap in the mushroom substrates. Like you said sometimes you have to put wood in the mix. Around here you can get both hard and softwood pellets that have worked well. The dowels we use for innoculating logs and I have some pretty good pics of some successful fruiting...

Oh! I apoligise and by all means, the more the merrier. The relevance was lost on me, but I'm back on the bus. Although I did learn something. I was under the presumption the stout faucets had a single shrouded orifice in the restrictor plate and the long snout was to control efflux. Of course I...

What question were you answering? I don't mean to be rude but I think I missed something here.

Surprise surprise, so they have! Part I find interesting after seeing that is the "special draught beer" requirement which apparently isn't special, it's just exactly what would be in the keg. I presume that is somehow different from bottled guinness?

Alright, it def works better on lower carbed beer! Which, from what I understand, is how a nitro stout would be carbed. Somewhere around 1.2vols? A second or two on full bottle carbed beer like this dry irish stout (my first beer) which used 5oz of corn sugar (poured at 50degF) was enough to...

It wasn't any more flat than if I'd poured it with a head of its own. Perhaps if I had taken longer to drink, it may have been flatter towards the end of the glass, or ran it longer in the first place. I don't like my beers super carbonated, and this was an Irish ale anyway. I don't see using...

That's a good point. They use pint sized ultrasonics for jewelery that are probably really cheap. It's after noon so I'll take one for the team and try a bottled irish stout. Results to follow!

I was bored and emptying the junk out of the ultrasonic cleaner while having a pint and decided to see if I could get a guinness like head out of homebrew without the fuss of nitrogen and restrictor faucets. Apparently you can. This is an irish red ale I have kegged (my first kegged beer) and...

I spent over 20 hours on a camp stove efficiency and thermal transfer study just to answer a question I had and couldn't find a real answer(no one else had ever bothered to ask it), so I'm no stranger to experimenting on useless minutiae. At least someone would actually find beer studies...