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So I'm in the process of designing a nano-sized system (about 1.5 bbl) and have been thinking a little about measuring volume. I'm expecting to size my HLT about 1.3 times the system size (75 or 80 gal, compared to 60 gal for the MT & BK) to have spare water available for various tasks, which...

In lower pH solutions (like beer), gelatin proteins exhibit the two characteristics of good fining agents - they're large/heavy (so they'll settle out), and they're positively charged (so they'll attract negatively charged molecules on the surfaces of organic materials like yeast). Anything...

As someone who ferments in 55 gallon plastic drums, might I also suggest considering top cropping your yeast. One of the biggest assets of a conical is the ability to get a valve/your racking cane in the perfect spot to avoid trub. With a 55 gallon drum, not only do you not have that ability...

I've searched the forums, but it seems most questions of my type have the opposite problem, so here goes ... So, as I've mentioned round these parts before, I live in a tropical third world-ish area. The weather is lovely - the average daily low in January is 75F, and the average daily high...

Depends on how big you make your starter. In a ~1.040 SG solution, yeast will reproduce until they achieve a certain concentration. This number is (somewhat, kind of, maybe, not really, but good enough for all practical purposes) a constant, assuming we're all starting with the 100 billion or...

So, I'm living in a third world country with minimal access to brewing equipment and ingredients. Recently, a friend flying in from the west was able to bring me a few kilos worth of equipment so that I could begin to try to brew my own batches - obviously, a hydrometer was at the top of my...

So, I'm living in a SE Asian country with plentiful fresh mangos but very minimal access to good brewing equipment. What homebrewer is going to let that stand between him and good drink, though? :rockin: I bought 4 kilos of fresh mangos at the market today, along with more white sugar than I...

No clue, and not sure at all. I could only read enough of the packaging (I'm in an area with both a very odd language and a non-romanized alphabet) to know it was a mosquito net. Looking in to the MSDS profiles of most of the pyrethroid-based insecticides like deltramethrin seems to suggest...

Ok, just an update for those who are interested ... I managed to find a few square meters of mosquito netting for a BIAB-type system. Along with a pasta grinder (second hand, not sure why it was where it was, but I snatched it up) that I can use (once I rough up the rollers) to crush grain...

I could mail order a lot of it, but it would be very costly. I'm trying to find that right balance between making as much as is reasonable/possible, and only ordering things that simply don't exist and don't weigh a lot. The idea of handcrushing 15 lbs of grain (I assume I'm going to have to...

Hey guys, new member. I've been homebrewing for maybe five years, and a few years back even opened my own brewery in America with a few other folks - even though I wasn't the engineer/head brewmaster behind the operation (I was the lawyer, yikes!), I helped out on a few commercial sized...