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IMO your setup lacks sanitation. Immersion chillers get boiled in the wort for the last 20 min to sanitize them. Maybe use the bottom part as pre chiller to a immersion chiller?

IMO your setup lacks sanitation. Immersion chillers get boiled in the wort for the last 20 min to sanitize them. Maybe use the bottom part as pre chiller to a immersion chiller?

All this distrust of HB all goes back to that Buffalo Wild Wings commercial about the home brewer and his funky brew. I still get a chuckle..

I've called Culligan (name brand of water machine at the local Walmart). I asked for information about calcium, magnesium, chloride, sulfate, alkalinity. I got nowhere after 4 phone transfers. When I read the machine more closely it stated that it does a UV treatment, Reverse Osmosis (RO)...

There is a man law that says something like: You cant turn down a free beer, not even a BMC. I don't have time to look it up right now, but its out there. Note: It dosen't say you have to finish it :)

I've used Velcro straps to keep the longer lines kind of lined up, then bungee them to the keg so they dont flop to the fridge floor, but I leave enough slack to make a pour. That helps, but inevitably during a poker game or such event, the cobra taps get tangled up and drip all over the...

An even easier method. He adds grain during mashout (re-circulation). I like the fact this method eliminates a muslin bag and a separate pot for the steeping in my current method. Starch conversion should be complete, your just rinsing sugars. At this point PH of the mash doesn't matter...

Gordon Strong gave a talk at AHA regarding his new book, Brewing Better Beer. He had several comments about this topic ill try to boil it down. 1)Why did all grain brewers stop steeping specialty grains like extract brewers do? He uses the fresh vs end of day coffee analogy to point out...

Last nights game was the breaking point for me. I called the cable company and cancelled the NFL and RED this morning. If we all tune out they might stop being so greedy. Who would have thought that we would miss the real zebras? Lets hope they can solve the contract issues before they kill...

I've given up on Beaver.... Lake Water District water. I think Rodgers is on the same water supply. I now get my brewing water from the "Primo" RO water dispenser at the neighborhood market. I then make additions based on the grist using an excel spread sheet for the additions. I have made...

Basic Brewing Radio streaming MP3 of August 9, 2012 - Moonlight Meadery Interview http://traffic.libsyn.com/basicbrewing/bbr08-09-12moonlightmead.mp3 Brewsmith July 6th videopodcast Moonlight Meadery Interview...

Micheal Fairbrother of Moonlight Meadery was interviewed on Basic Brewing Radio and then on the BrewSmith Podcasts. He stated that he uses a stepped nutrient additions based on a paper produced by Kurt Stock (sp?). In his interviews some information conflicted between the interviews. So I...

Ok so its really really really nice! I admit I have envy, but where is the urinal? I mean if you gotta go and its more than 10 steps away from your brew rig or man cave... then forget about it... Ill just keep brewing outside where every tree is a urinal.

IMO the louvers on the fan would not stop the cold air sinking to the lower compartment. Making the lower compartment too cold for fermenting.

You got way more than 15 min bwarbiany :D Its been an interesting read. It was almost a mystery novel for homebrewers: strange beers show up from nowhere, could they be poisoned, wheres the husband now, is it crap beer, bottle bombs, is he going to drink it? Crap like that never happens to me.

What about the other bottles? How did they taste?

Thanks for posting the link Nagorg. Good info:)

Just checking in after 4 brews with these pumps, no major problems. I did have an issue with the threads as posted earlier. I have managed to stop any leaks with an extra 2 wraps of Teflon tape on the first part of the threads. I must say how nice it is not having to lift hot strike and...

Brewed this weekend with my old immersion chiller acting as a pre-chiller 25'x3/8". The old IC was way too small for new keggel sized batches. I made a larger IC out of 50' of 3/8 inch copper. After tap water and the new IC took the wort down to 100deg F in approx 12 min (tap water at 77 deg...