Recent content by andy6026

Were you stuck with kettles or did they take them back? Unfortunately in Ontario we don’t seem to have much of an alternative as I think Toronto Brewing uses OBK as their supplier for much of their brewing equipment. Those guys are usually very helpful, but if the money’s going back to OBK...

Thanks for the replies, everyone. I thought I'd reach out to my brewing equipment supplier and ask their advice on it. I like retailers than can advise their customers in finding a product that's suitable for their needs, or at least help them avoid unsuitable products. However, a few years...

So I’ve been mulling around the idea of buying a hop spider. Reading various customer reviews has me on the fence on whether or not it’d worth it. Here’s my circumstance: I brew a variety of beers but one of my main staples is a 15 gallon batch of an IPA in a 20-gallon kettle. It uses a...

Awesome - that’s a win on all fronts. Thanks!

I’m assembling ingredients to make a 10 gallon batch of raspberry wheat beer. Will it make a difference if I use frozen raspberries or should I only use fresh? The price is certainly different, but I’ll pay for it if I have to.

The difficulty is that I have no idea what mineral levels I want to hit, or why...

Thanks for the input guys... I'll check out Brunwater and hopefully get a better grasp of water chemistry.

Can someone please advise me on how to adjust my tap water (aside from campden tablets) for the following two recipes please? Every time I try to read up on understanding water reports and water adjustments I go cross-eyed and re-read the same thing a million times without understanding it. I...

This would be a very sensible way to determine the volumes required. Unfortunately it is more involved than I was hoping to do and I have already upgraded to a 70 qt cooler. I haven't used it yet, but I'm excited to test it out soon. What I was hoping for were some quick and easy calculations...

As much as that would certainly answer my question, bleme, going through those motions is a little more effort than I want to expend to find out. I guess what I'm getting at is that regardless whether or not Coleman is lying, my 48 qt cooler just isn't cutting it for 10 gallon batches (so...

Sorry to revive a dead thread, but this is the most thorough analysis of mash volume requirements I've encountered. Unfortunately, the numbers arrived at here just don't correspond with my real life experience... ie., trying to mash and sparge 20 lbs of grain for a 10 gallon batch in a 48 qt...

I think you guys are both right: fermenting temps should be easy to achieve but cold crashing won't quite get there. It should be close enough. I just wish I could predict the future. An alternative might be to use a spare window-air-conditioner unit that I have lying around.

Hello everybody. I've recently started building a custom-designed fermentation chamber and I'm halfway through the project. However, I've suddenly got a sinking feeling that I may have made a huge oversight: I don't know if the mini-fridge I intend to use will be powerful enough for the size...

hottpeper13, that's exactly the info I was looking for. Thank you very very much!

I'm having a lot of trouble with these calculators and formulas for necessary mash tun sizes that I'm seeing online, partly because they're not directly answering the specific question I have, and partly because it seems that my real life experience contradicts what they are saying. Perhaps...