Recent content by 30_Ounce

Got my water report back and my limited knowledge tells me this is a bit too hard. How would you treat this water for brewing? pH 8.0 Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) Est, ppm 211 Electrical Conductivity, mmho/cm 0.35 Cations / Anions, me/L / 3.84.1 ppm Sodium, Na 9 Potassium, K 2 Calcium, Ca 41.0...

Turns out one of my pumps may have died. Disconnecting that pump stopped the cycling and allowed me to switch that fermenter to another temp controller/pump and all is working. Anyone have any ideas on what kind of pump these use?

My 2 year old Icemax 4 is cycling all 4 temp controllers on and off every second or 2. The main glycol temp controller is not cycling. Any ideas of what is going on? The temp controllers seem to be clicking like a relay is tripping.

I won best of show and a Pro Am at Odell’s With my Northern English Brown. That beer also won 2nd best of show in a prior competition. I agree with you that judges tend to look at the wow factor in best of show and it takes a very mature judge panel to weed through and find an English beer as...

just kegged my pale ale. First glass off of it.

I had to replace some evaporated glycol/water last week and removed the drain plug to drain and replace the mixture and unbeknownst to me the almost clear gasket dropped into my bucket. I had a leak almost the same as yours. Thankfully I hadn’t tossed the bucket I drained everything to and...

My Pilsner brewed about 6 months ago. Delicious! Not as good as my previous batch which used tettnanger hops for bittering. This batch I used Magnum. Didn’t think bittering hops made much difference but this changed my mind.

Not Vegan...definitely meat eaters here...

This particular batch was 34/70. I did a run of 7 lagers in a row with it, 15 gallon batches each time.

Wheat has so much protein contribution that you should not need carapils. It certainly won’t hurt anything. My last batch of Hefeweizen was 50% Pilsner 50% pale wheat malt, both from Weyermann, 10 IBU Hallertau at 60 minutes and I made a starter to exactly under pitch by 50%. Oxygenated for 1...

To be clear, I have no problem getting perfectly clear/bright beer with simply cold crashing and kegging without gelatin. I’m just a little surprised that I can leave it in the fermenter for 6 weeks and it doesn’t clear but if I transfer to a keg it will be clear in a week, sometimes 3 days. I...

I have considered that but my sampling port is about 8” above the cone and even samples are never clear. I’m sure there is some stratification happening as on occasion I noticed that my last keg I filled is more clear than the first. I can see that in the transfer tubing...

I keep my kegerator at 37. Unitanks are crashed/lagered at 33.5. I have to step it down slowly after it gets below 40 or things will freeze up but once it get down to 33.5 it has no problem staying there. Yea, those are Audio Research CL120 mono blocks. Just re tubed them. 20 tubes!

I have done 8 lagers last year with my SsBrewtech Unitanks and glycol system. I have lagered each batch in the unitanks for 6-8 weeks and then carbonated and transferred to kegs. Each time the beer has been hazy initially then after a week in the keg it’s crystal clear. SWMBO has insisted...