Recent content by bigljd

Hi - The diagram does show the resistors before e-stop button, but I did wire in the resistors after the button. I did not use the 1 amp fuse, after having a discussion it was determined that the fuse was not needed, since if the fuse failed then the e-stop circuit would fail. Ideally I'd say to...

Hi Denny, When you first mentioned this idea I thought you wanted to eliminate the probe in the HLT and just monitor MLT temps - this wouldn't work well since you couldn't heat strike/sparge water accurately in the HLT. But, adding a second PID/SSR/probe for the MLT would allow you turn a pump...

The sour cherry porter turned out pretty well. I just kegged it a couple months ago, and would have posted about it but I recently got a job in California so I've spent the last 2 months packing, selling our house, moving and learning a new job. The beer was moderately tart, with a hint of...

I'm in Indian Trail, NC, which is just SE of Charlotte. If you are looking to meet brewers in the area a good way to do it is to come to a brew club meeting. The big club in the area that I'm a member of is the Carolina Brewmasters - they meet the first Wednesday of every month at Dilworths...

Sorry, missed your question earlier. I went from 1.068 to 1.013. When I first gravity checked it it had stopped at 1.018, which is what I wanted, but then after dry hopping with leaf hops and gently stirring in the hops the yeast woke back up and knocked another 5 points off. Oh well, it still...

Brewed this a couple weekends ago, with a couple small changes. Swapped Vienna for Munich, .5oz Summit in place of the Citra FWH, and used WLP002 English Ale for the yeast. This is a fantastically fruity brew. I've made similar brews in the past while cloning an old recipe for a local brewery...

I'm just going to bottle it - not planning to start drinking any of it for another 3 or 6 months after bottling. I've bottled some other sours previously and I know they will continue to improve in the bottle. I've got a sour cherry porter on tap right now, along with a Flanders red batch I...

bell - cool idea, and if it was lacking sourness I'd definitely think about brewing a more acidic batch and blending a gueze. I'm pretty happy with the balance of brett and acidity now, and would like bottle it soon, rather than a year from now. It's really balanced now, and more time may make...

I made a lambic style brew last April, using a traditional recipe of 8lbs Pils, 4lbs unmalted wheat and an ounce of aged Willamette hops, and did a turbid mash. Fermented in a glass carboy with ECY Bug Farm, and left it on the yeast cake after it finished for the last 10 months. I've been a good...

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Just a follow up on this brew from last fall - we shared all 5 different 100% Trois brews including my Trois Janet's Brown with about 100 people at a brew club meeting last December and it went over well. Many people could not tell they were brett beers. I had also bottled 10 bottles of my Trois...

For the record, I am one of the 2 that notified Auberins of this thread. I had a great experience with them with the 2 orders I placed, and they were very helpful to me and had quick responses to questions I had regarding stuff I had bought from them. It's very easy for people to come onto...

After about 40 flawless batches on my electric rig, I burnt up my first element a few weeks back. It was also in the HLT, and happened during the sparge, but I can't blame it on anyone but me since I was brewing alone and I got distracted by something else I was doing. I've replaced the element...

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