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Well the new yeast seems to be working fine, down to 1.020 and tasting much better....

In 2012 I had the opportunity to fill a corny while volunteering at Saint Somewhere Brewing. The beer is a farmhouse ale that was open fermented with brett and a saison yeast and it has been in this keg for 18 months. Keg finally blew tonight. How should I go about cleaning this keg to make...

Thanks... I knew someone could put it into perspective for me! I dumped a vial of White Labs Super High Gravity in today, hoping that will bring it down.

Ok so I've been brewing for long enough now (about 6 years) but since my son was born 2 years ago my brew sessions have been few and far between, and I've not read nearly as much as I used to nor kept up with the forums here.... I brewed a 'batch' partigyle a couple weeks ago. I used enough...

I know this is an old thread but thought I'd add that I'm 99% sure CCB uses Thames Valley yeast for Maduro.

Ok..... A few questions. Ph.D. in Molecular Biology here and work for one of the largest scientific product suppliers in the world so I have access to pretty much everything one could need for this. I have tried freezing yeast a couple times based off of some threads I saw here on HBT. I...

Ok..... A few questions. Ph.D. in Molecular Biology here and work for one of the largest scientific product suppliers in the world so I have access to pretty much everything one could need for this. I have tried freezing yeast a couple times based off of some threads I saw here on HBT. I...

Thanks, they were good, not great. I'm still working on the recipe for them, it's still missing something.

We finally got around to trying these out tonight. They were fantastic! I cooked them in my Stok kettle grill, cooking them with indirect heat at first. About 5 minutes after I put them on a big storm blew through and I had trouble keeping my temp, it actually fell down to about 250 for about...

I am participating in a homebrew contest being put on by a local beer distributor. It's designed to get their employees to learn more about the brewing process. Anyways, each team is allowed to have one outside member, so a guy that I know who works there invited me to be on his team. We are...

Check out the Avenue Pub on St. Charles Ave,, it's the best place for craft beer in the city that I've found while traveling there on business. The Bulldog on Magazine St is also pretty cool, not quite the selection that Avenue has but still good place to have a pint or 6

I recently built an eHERMS control box using an Auber PID/SSR. I'm curious if I can make this a dual-purpose controller... On brew day I'll use it to control the heating element in my HLT, and then I'd like to use it as a temperature controller for my small fridge that I ferment in... Right now...

Tampa. You?

I got a fancy new counterflow chiller for Father's day so I'm putting my immersion chillers up for sale. I originally had a single 25' chiller that I bought from an online vendor (I don't remember where, it was 4 years ago) and then I added another 25' of tubing. The two coils are connected by...

One more question... I'm putting an on/off switch in for the heating element, where is the best place to put it... Should I have it so that it switches the PID on/off, or should I put it in the hot line coming out of the SSR? Or does it really matter?

My pump came with yesterday's mail. I'm impressed that it took less than 2 weeks to get here from China. I picked up 12V-2.0A max power supply from the Goodwill Store for $1 the other day, wired it up last night and she fired right up. I know you're not supposed to run these dry, I just...

Yeah the pump will definitely be mounted so that the head is OUTside of the box, while the main body of the pump will be inside the box.

I'm in the process of building my new HERMS controller. My HERMS system will be very basic, I'm building it to be very portable. I'll be using a 1500W heatstick in my HLT, the controller will control this and I'm using a toolbox as the housing for the controller. I have a similar toolbox...

Bad idea IMO... Simply because you will have no idea where your fermentation stands. I have had some brews ferment out almost completely in less than 48, and some that have taken up to 4 weeks to reach their FG. If you bottle before the beer is fermented out you will end up with bottle bombs.

My thoughts on the cleaning problem... I use a 17.5 gallon cooler for my mash tun, and I just use a 2 quart pitcher to scoop out the spent grains. Sure, I can take and flip the cooler when most of the grains are out, but you will have a drain in the bottom that you can open to rinse the last...