Recent content by archmaker

I took a piece of oak, drilled a hole of the size of the pipe and ran the pipe through it into my cooler and then used two wood screws to attach the piece of oak to the cooler. Gave me good support and my ball no matter how hard to turns never flexes the cooler.

I have been buying my grains already crushed from my LHBS, but this last batch my efficiency was off by almost 20%. I thought it might have been due to the wind and cold dropping the temperature of my tun (from 155 to 148 in 45 minutes), more than normal and went ahead and finished out the...

I am about to get off the road and be back home for more than a day or two, and plan on getting back to brewing. However, to get to my question. During Hurricane Ike I had several different varities of yeast in my refridge that were washed by me. I was without electricity for a week, I...

Thanks for the information, about pinching the tube! I also noticed that where my homemade racking cane meets the hose if the clamp was not tight enough I got bubbles. I put a half turn on the clamp and they were gone. Guess there was a very minor leak there. Live and learn.

I am on well water north of Houston, and this weekend I brewed a batch of AG that I have done in the past. I took 6 gallons of water this weekend boiled it and let set and then ran it through coffee filters. I filtered out just over a teaspoon of solids out of my water. I added some distilled...

I had one sit up there for well over a month, more like two, finally dropped in one day. Some of the best beer I have brewed everyone who has tasted it liked it. My first AG and I worried over it like a first child.

Not having any experience with this setup as mine is a thermonitor stuck through the top of my tun. But my .02 cents worth would be. Figure out what my smallest grain I would mash in the Tun would be. Then calculate max capacity for your tun, and based upon the research I have done...

Ok, mine is a little off. :) I was dating this lady who said several time she wanted to brew beer, so I got her a kit for Valentine day. We brewed that beer together, did not date her for very long after that, but I got the bug from her :)

Sound similar to what happened to me. May not be the same. The stuff was about 2" thick, when I took samples it clumped up on my turkey fryer, and the chunks would be the consistency of caulk. Same deal it bubbled once every 15 to 30 seconds. For about 6 weeks. I was afraid it was ruined...

A Orfy HobGoblin clone. Bottled it two weeks ago and threw it in the Freezer for 30 minutes. Just wanted to see how it was going to be. A little green still, but not bad.

Got One gallon going at 9:15 tonight. Stayed with the original recipe.

Today is the day! Will get my started tonight when I get home from work.

You are fine, based upon my very limited experience. The key will be monitor your hydro. See what it is doing three days from now, if it was me I would wait a week and see what it is doing. I had one that fermented for a 5-6 weeks. I worried about it ever few days. Brewed it on the 28th of...

I do not even check to see how my bottles are doing until 2 weeks. Three weeks is my minimum and I keep my house cool. If I was worried about temp I would place them over one of my floor vents and throw a towel or blanket on top.