Recent content by allgrain

I've got ~2500ml of yeast in a gallon jug harvested from a 1.060 ale and I'm trying to guesstimate how many cells are in there. Mrmalty is somewhat helpful but the numbers vary greatly depending on harvest date, thick vs thin and non-yeast %. Thinking I may go a little bigger next time...

i'm looking at upgrading my chiller and i've found that stainless IC chillers are cheaper then copper. So ok they probably don't chill as well as copper and the question becomes how much better is copper then stainless at chilling wort. i found this link that shows the thermal conductivity...

swmbo and i picked 13lb sour cherries tonight from a friend. half are pitted and in the freezer and we'll prep the rest tomorrow. i'm hoping she'll let me use 8-9lb for brewing and thinking of doing a 10g wheat and using all them on half of the batch or maybe do like 6lb in half and 3lb in the...

if you're in northern ky you could drive up to dayton and buy your rhizomes at belmont party supply. i was there yesterday and they still have a bunch of rhizomes in the back cooler. Not sure what varieties but you could call and ask. http://schwartzbeer.com/

i created a new grain/malt call apple juice and set the dry yield fine grain to 100%. I enter the number of gallons where beersmith has pounds and the OG comes really close.

i brew in a single car garage with a friend so we have two burners going full blast at times. I've got a digital CO detector and when the CO level starts climbing i just open the doors a little and the CO goes down pretty quickly. when it's nice outside it's not an issue as we open the...

does anyone have a conversion chart between inches and gallons for a sanke keg? I'm trying to save myself the effort of figuring it out myself :cross: