Recent content by BawlimerBrewer

Groovy! Thanks to you both! Mike

So I've been very busy and let the last "kit" I purchased sit in the 'fridge for three months. Any problems? It's an extract recepie with some grains to steep - they were milled/cracked for me at the HB shop. It has all been in my 'fridge since then. I hope to have time to brew on Thursday -...

The two best beers I've ever enjoyed - 1) Founder's, in Grand Rapids, MI - they had some sort of oak-barrel aged porter only available at the brewery. It was last summer sometime - absolutely incredible! I was inspired to visit the brewery after having a four pack of their Kentucky...

I just opened the first bottle of my first home-brew beer. It's an Irish Stout from a kit/recepie from Annapolis Homebrew Supply. I made several noob mistakes along the way, mistakes I know about and others I'll likely grow to understand later. Brewed on June 5th, 11 days in primary, 8 in...

I did grind a few mirrors in my younger years - I still have an 8-inch f/10 reflector I made for planetary observing. But the 'scopes I have now are both Celestron 14" - pretty much identical twins, each in their own dome. Mike

I've just started brewing - three batches in the past month, another likely next week, all partial mash. My "main" hobby is amateur astronomy. I have two semi-automated observatories in my back yard which are primarily used to perform time-sequence photometry of cataclysmic variable stars. Mike

Well, that wouldn't be a dry run then, would it? :cross: Anyway, I brewed up my newest batch today - a cream stout - and tried the idea of brewing in my driveway with about 18 feet of hose running to my primary sitting in my basement. It worked really well. In fact, once the flow got going...

58.3 years old and 0.065 years experience - a roughly 900-1 ratio.

The entire path would be downhill - the fermenter would be about 5 feet below the level of the brewpot. And it would not have to be siphoned, just open the valve and let it flow. I'm going to try it out and see how it works. Basically boil it outdoors, cool it with an immersion cooler, then...

I've just purchased a turkey frier and after reading many posts here have decided that at least for the time being I will brew outdoors using the propane setup, at least until I build a vented setup in the basement - and then maybe never if I can get something together that works well. So to...

Thanks TW!

For my very first post here I'll ask a question that I gotta believe has been asked before ... tried search but failed.. I prefer to brew in my kitchen. I just brewed up my first batch, and used the included LD Carlson "Easy Clean" to sanitize. I now understant that is not optional. So I'm...