Search results

You can see this setup on my ebay page at the link below. The ebay item is listed at $2500 to cover ebay fees. If you contact me at my email address below instead of via ebay the price is $2400. https://www.ebay.com/itm/222893263985?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649...

I've been making 1.5L-2L starters for all my beers for about 2 years now. Since my flask is a 2000ml I really couldn't go much bigger than that on a stir plate. I've always had really good luck. I recently aquired a 4000ml flask and am going to make larger starters when necessary on some of...

I'm carbonating a Belgian Dark Strong and I'm just curious how this works. A little background: For years I've been a set it and forget it guy. I leave my C02 at 11psi for everything. Always works great. Beers carbonate fully in about 2 weeks and serve just fine. But with this beer I...

Brewed 10 gallons of Milk Stout on Sunday. Into the fermenter and pitched yeast starter about 2pm sunday. By bedtime it was actively fermenting. I ferment in a stainless conical inside an upright freezer with temp controller (probe in thermowell sensing wort temp). I have a small space...

This weekend I did my first brew with custom made water. Starting with RO/DI water I used the additions calculated by Beersmith 2.0 to create the Burton on the Trent profile. I mixed up 5 gallon batches of the profile water in a a bucket and stirred vigorously for 15-20 seconds and then poured...

I made a 5 gallon batch of russian imperial stout with OG of 1.110 last saturday. I used 2 smack packs of 1056 with a 2 litre starter on a stir plate. Starter had blow off and I lost some yeast so I don't really know how much I pitched (don't know how many cells where left in the starter). I...

I made my first belgian beer and will be kegging it tonight. I have a 3 tap system that I run at 10-12psi all the time. I use the set and forget method and my beers are perfectly carbed in 1-2 weeks. Problem is that the belgian beer is supposed to have more carbination than a regular ale...

I wasn't sure if this post should go in this forum or the company reviews forum. I wanted to post my experience with Stout Tanks and Kettles (www.conical-fermenter.com/) and show how the final project turned out. I ordered the kettles (HLT, Mash tun, Boil Kettle) in mid December with a...

I've started seeing adds on several message boards for www.tradetang.com. They are on HBT now as well. They must be paying google to get the exposure. Anyway, I checked out the add because they had crazy low prices on what appear to be nice looking guitars. The sales are very inticing but I...

I brewed up a 10 gallon batch of my favorite blonde ale this weekend and this time I split it into two 5 gallon batches. In one I did the usual ale and in the other I used WYeast 2007 pilsen Lager. The ale is fermenting as usual. For the Lager, I did a 2L starter from a smack pack. The...

The only HLT I can find for purchase with a pre installed HERMS coil is at www.conical-fermenter.com. This HLT looks awsome and I may buy it but it's a 6 month lead. I've searched the internet high and low looking for a similar product but can't find anything. Anyone here know if there is any...

I'm building a single tier system and am wondering if anyone has any advise on using welded 1/2OD stainless tubing for moving the wort around? Will the seam create a significant contamination risk? My other option is copper pipe.

So I've decided to upgrade my AG brewery and build a single tier herms system. I'm leaning toward buying BK, MLT, and HLT from www.conical-fermenter.com and use their HLT with HERMS coil. Their vessels come with all tri-clover sanitary fittings and clamps which I think is a big plus. I'm...

A friend of mine gave me a some whole leaf hops he grew. I've always used pellet hops. When a recipe calls for x.x oz of hops is that weight the same regardless of what form they are in (assuming the alpha % is equal).

after your beer is carbonated and you are hooking up the out line for the first time, I presume you need to bleed off the pressure before connecting it...correct?

I'm doing my first lager and I am following the directions of the LHB shop guy. He said that once fementation is 75% complete, raise the temp to 70deg and hold it there for 3 days...then rack to secondary and reduce temp by 3deg per day down to 35 and lager at 35deg for 60 days. After 7...

So I'm changing over from bottling to kegging but I know occasionally I'll want to bottle a few from some batches. The LHS suggested using the coopers drops for carbing the bottles and i got some but I realized that I'll be putting them in each bottle with no sanitization. Won't they...

sick of bottling so I'm going to keg. I plan to use a 5 gallon corny keg as a secondary as well. Up to this point I've always only done primary and then bottle. I've answered most of my questions by reading other posts but still unclear about a couple of things. When I'm ready to transfer...

Here is a link to a brewery touting the worlds strongest beer (Sink the Bismark) coming in at 41% ABV. the blog says that they achieve this by "freezing" it 4 different times. I'm not familiar with this process. how does it work? I thought yeast would die above a much lower %abv. Here's the...

I'm upgrading my equipment to handle 10 gallon batches. I mostly do 5 gallon batches but would like to do the occasional 10 gallon batch. Question is regarding fermenters...Is it best to ferment the whole batch in 1 fermenter or can I split the wort into two 5 gallon batches and ferment them...