Recent content by beto998

The 240V:120V transformer IMO is the easiest safe way to go about this. Should be code too if you wire it right. You need to treat the 120V as a separately derived source and bond it by tying one side of that to the ground from the 240V circuit. This side becomes your neutral in the 120V...

That's a great homemade food, I make that every couple of months or so. To take the pain-in-the-butt aspect away, check into sous-vide cooking. You've probably got a method of holding a water bath at 150F already. I sous-vide the breasts for 1 hour and the dark meat for 2.5 hours (I think it...

Over 15 years, 4 total. I don't own one anymore. Last one I had lasted less than a week so I gave up. I brew once or twice a month, now with refractometer only. I used to check the refractometer against the hydrometer, and I think I have enough data to trust the charts within a point or...

I tried both the shake and vent method and this upside down CO2 bubbling method. The CO2 bubbling method works faster as some poster mentioned - you are creating nucleation sites. I remember some years ago I was transferring beer from one half-keg to another half keg, and I did this by...

Thanks guys. A follow up - I've got it carbed and tapped now, and it turned out really good. It was certainly not mold. I thought I had passed all these newbie type of situations, but apparently there are still a few surprises left for me. Hopefully this thread (out of all the mold...

Thanks guys. I was a bit worried for a while. I swear they were fuzzy looking a week ago. I've never seen that before with kits or extract, and I'm sure I've done more than 100 batches in total over the past 15 years. I've only ever dumped one batch because at the time it "smelt like a...

I went a little crazy with brewing and had 4 batches in secondary. Kegs were all full, and no room for cold storage of carboys. I have another batch that went really well still in secondary, brewed 1 week after this one. Actually it went a little too well. I had 12lbs of 2 row + 0.5 of...

OK, so I'm a long time kit/extract brewer, who recently went to all grain. I have about 5 batches under my belt (well, maybe above the belt just a little too). I had one particular session that didn't go as planned, I tried a new method of mash temp control and I had a new 4500W electric...