Recent content by BeaverBrewer1

Awesome. Thanks for all the comments. The vessel I am planning on working with is the keg for yeast propagation from GW Kent, which already has two welded tc fittings (top and side) so I just need to pipe around through a pump, a sampling T, etc. I'm hoping to have everything stainless so I...

Great. I wasn't sure if I understood the point of the triclamp fittings if they needed welding. The source of my confusion was that I had assumed that there would be some kind of triclamp-specific machined stainless pipes that would clamp into the fittings. So then if I can get ss 304 tubes...

I would like to step up to some more serious equipment and basically what I want to be able to do is move sanitary liquids through one or more valves, take readings (pH, temp, OD, DO), etc. and feed in more nutrients. I have no experience working with triclamp/triclover, so I have a very...

I also harvested some yeast from a duvel bottle. I had a very long lag time - something like a week - before I saw any convincing fermentation. Now it is going gangbusters. Since Duvel has a fair amount of refined sugar at the end of fermentation (at least in the clone), I chalk it up to the...

Thanks for the reply. I realized as I googled a bit more that the whole "bottle aging versus secondary" argument is pretty hotly contested, and has therefore been discussed ad nauseum. I'll leave things where they are for the moment (I'm not hurting for fermentor space - yet). My other...

I'm being a bit impatient, I know, but I made a pretty high OG 1.068-ish stout* that I mashed at 70C. With the high mash temp and the unfermentables, it had a pretty high finishing gravity, around 1.018. I probably could (should?) have cranked the primary fermentation temp up a little further...

That's great! Schneider is my favourite wheat - though I admit I don't like aventinus as much as most people do. I prefer Original or even Sportweisse. But with the original yeast, Weyermann wheat malt, and pils malt, I should be able to get pretty close to a clone... The only fault with my...

I realize that my backstory about harvesting yeast might have distracted from my question, which is whether Schneider uses the same yeast in Aventinus and Original. Anyway, no big deal - I couldn't get any living yeast out of the Original bottle anyway. But I will mention that I have a...

I'm slowly working up to what I would call a home laboratory. I've got my pipettes and my ethanol lamp, my loop and agar plates. I've started harvesting some yeast from bottles. The limiting factor is yeast vitality - since some of the bottles have been at RT at the liquor store for who...

I've got the floater and the one that came free with my 10 Gal aluminum pot, round analog dial on a long metal probe. Both of them suck in their way, both of them are quite handy in others. I honestly think the floater is accurate - it's just got such a slow equilibration time that it...

I'm from Saskatchewan, which a lot of people would say doesn't have much going for it, but one thing you can't argue with: they don't change the time all year long. The only thing that sucks is trying to figure out what time shows are coming on, because they're all broadcast from other time...

Well that's reassuring. I was sure that I was going to be stuck with cloudy beer. Now I'm just kinda sure ;) Next question: given that WLP005 flocs like a S O B, if I put it down to 4 C for a few days or a week, you think there will still be enough in suspension at bottling?

Hey all. I'm new to these forums. I just wanted to tell a tale of a scary pumpkin ale. Ok, it's not that scary, except that I have a huge and growing layer of something - starches? in secondary. I started this fellow out in early October. Grain bill was something like this: 250 g...