Recent content by BeerBandit

I know victorville, apple valley and Hesperia very well. Along with havasu. I live in needles. Lived out in victorville for a few months when I was younger. And I was dating a woman in havasu, so we were always back and forth between our two houses. Anyways, I DO have ac. It's only window units...

I'll have to check the temperature in the shade tomorrow. As its almost 9pm, and only 105f right now :p I am indeed in the Inland Empire in the Mohave desert. (Yes, I spell it with a "h) I love how you both are pinpointing my exact whereabouts. I can give my zip code, or even my address, if...

I tend to write great walls of text. I'll have to work on that. I plan on immersion chilling with recirculating ice water, and then recycling the water, of course

Ohh. It's the hothead ale yeast. I thought I had mentioned it in the first post?

My ambient temp is probably only about 90 in the warmer parts of my house. I'm going to throw a window unit in a spare room in the back of the house which will help a lot, I'm sure. No basement. It will be cooling off a good deal within two months. I'm probably going to try to hold out on my...

A lot of people consider 80f to be on the cool side where I live, haha

Yessir, that is what I was talking about. I do not believe I've read that article, before, either. Thank you very much

I've been through a ton of corona mill topics, but, I haven't came across this question. Also, I'm not entirely sure this is the correct spot to post this. However, it has to do with grain, so, I'm hoping I am in the right place. I'm just wondering if it would be better to soften the husks...

I know what a swamper is, lol. Just must've been tired on the night that I thought I recalled a few people referring to the bucket bath as the swamp cooler method. My bad. I live in the I.E. on the southeast side. A lot of people out here use them. I do, as well, but, I haven't used it this...

Thanks for the responses, everyone. I was planning on the bucket bath route for now. For some reason, I thought that was what people were referring to as the swamp cooler method. I am already well aware that temp control is a huge factor in beer, and that's why I'm concerned. I also plan on...

Thanks for the responses, everyone. For some reason, I thought that the water bath was called the swamp cooler method. Anyways, that's what I plan on doing until I build a chiller. It's pretty much the first thing I'm going to work on building. Going to make a stir plate as well, but I could do...

I've yet to brew, and I'm learning as much as I can, daily. I will not be building a fermentation cooler any time soon, so my best bet would be the "swamp cooler method", I'm guessing. I'm wondering how well you guys think it would work in a house without central air. As I live in the desert...

I've yet to brew, and I'm learning as much as I can, daily. I will not be building a fermentation cooler any time soon, so my best bet would be the "swamp cooler method", I'm guessing. I'm wondering how well you guys think it would work in a house without central air. As I live in the desert...