Recent content by Anbrand

I'm interested in fruit concentrate recommendations to flavor and backsweeten my cider. What brands or sources have you had the best results with? What flavors have gone over well?

Ditto on the hydrometer. I recently took a reading that I knew was way off and after examining the hydrometer at different angles in good light I discovered a hairline fracture. They are fragile..on my third one now. When this one goes I'm going with a refractometer. Ditto also on the Starsan...

Thanks for the input guys. I should be good to go then. I chose to go with the NPT fittings style tube with Camlock hose fittings. My Coleman Extreme should prevent any major heat loss in windy conditions. A LWD element is definitely in order. I also purchased the newer pump from Greatbreweh...

Is a 1500 W 110v element sufficient to maintain mash temperature? I'm only concerned will the ability to maintain the temp post dough-in. The tube body is 1 1/2" x 8" (not including the tees). I have a 10g system and do not plan to use it for step mashing. Assume a normal mash recirculating...

I'm in the same place as you are. One minor difference that I am planning is to require that the pump be powered for the element to be powered. Like you, I am also planning on a separate power switches, however, the element will be interlocked with the pump switch. A fault with this is that the...

Checking into it more it looks like it's 100:1 reduction - used for feeding stove pellets. My bad. Back to the drill.

The 1.6 should read 160. It appears to be a misprint. I already have a corded DeWalt but I'd rather have a dedicated motor.

I'm looking to motorize my new BC mill and have been looking at different alternatives. While searching I came across some inexpensive DC gear motor's that appear to have the required specifications. http://www.3rivers.net/~cmac/gearmotors/ast-1471-5.htm Does anyone have experience with...

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I spashed the wort around pretty good when transferring to the primaries. There was a good amount of foam on the surface. Yes, I've learned the fermentation lesson first hand. I once bought a bucket that had a small amount of flash on the top. The airlock did not show any activity but the beer...

Yesterday I brewed a 10G batch of a Bell's TH clone. I harvested yeast from three dregs of Bell's Amber earlier in the week. I started with 300ml and stepped up to 500ml and had about a 16th inch of yeast at the bottom of the quart jar. Against the advice of my LHBS guy I still pitched one of...

Any thoughts on using WLP001 on a TH Clone? It's clean and a little higher attenuating.

I screwed up and used 1/3 cup of cane sugar instead of 2/3 that I should have done. Yep, it's already bottled! A pale ale that was on it's way to be a great beer. Is there anything I can do now with the bottle conditioning that will maximize the amount of carbonation?

I'll have to read up on the cold sparge. Do you recirculate using a pump? Is so, which one? My goal from the start was to have fun making good beer. I immediately found that home brewing is way more of an art than science and most every home brewer has a different opinion. There is no one...

I like the simple and consistent approach. How do you get your 2nd batch sparge water up to temperature?