Recent content by brent756

In for both, I'd like the Pliny The Elder Double IPA Clone - All-Grain Recipe Kit

Just what I need to complete my 3 vessel!

I have a local brewery called 4 Hands. They have a PB Milk Stout called Abscence of Light. The PB taste is so subtle at the end, it's friggin delicious. I wonder if maybe doing s small pre-rinse of PB2 would help rid of some of the salt and some lactose would help to retain some of the desired...

I'm too cheap to buy a pump right now and I actually use a DIY stir plate on my electric brew kettle when heating strike/sparge water. My temp probe is at the bottom of my sight glass. If I don't stir the probe never reads correctly until I overshoot. Adding my stir plate with a 2 inch bar...

I started 2 yeast starters 48 hours ago. One was a Pils lager yeast I've used before, the second was Wyeast Danish lager. After 48 hours on the stir plate, the Pils starter looks like what I'm used to seeing, a nice milky color. The Danish lager year however, looks like almost pure starter wort...

So I'm thinking about brewing up a pale ale with some American style German hops I just got. I guess what I'll call a GPA, Germerican Pale Ale? 11 gallon batch split between two buckets. OG: 1.056 | FG: 1.014 | IBU: 43 | SRM: 8 Ingredients Grain -18lb Belgian 2-Row (75%) -5lb Munich Malt...

Might want to check this link out. http://brulosophy.com/methods/yeast-harvesting/ That's the method I've recently adopted after a few times of attempting to wash yeast and hating the process.

I'm pretty new to the electric game with only a one 10 gallon batch and one 5 gallon batch under my belt. I went with the 1.5" enclosure and 5500w fold back stainless element from BrewHardware and couldn't be happier. I'm all grain so I can't speak to the dangers of scorching if doing...

One nice thing about being able to control two different pressures is when you're wanting to force carb a keg. I set it to 36PSI for 30 hours and then bump it down to serving pressure and purge the excess. The keg is usually pretty well carbed up in about 2-3 days vs. 2 weeks if you set it...

I ordered the eBIAB kit and enclosure, even though the build is not complete I'd say I'm happy so far. I was driving myself mad trying to look for the best deals on each component and trying to figure out the exact build that I wanted. I finally got fed up and just ordered the kit. The cost...

Brewed this up for my third time yesterday. First was with 3711, second was with 3724. I ran into the much reported stall on that batch. Thank goodness two weeks of that wait was spent in Austria/Germany. Yesterday's batch was pitched with 3726. Looking forward to seeing how this strain turns...

Not to hijack this thread but I'm wondering if anyone could offer some input on a venting solution for my soon to be electric setup. I'm going to be heating and boiling in the same kettle and it will be directly beneath a basement window that's 28x28 inches. Don't let the propane stand throw you...

I'm in the process of planning out a conversion to electric and was pretty much set to do kettle mounted until I saw the HotRod heat stick. Wondering if anyone has input on using a heat stick vs. element installed in kettle. I'll have 30a with GFCI breaker available and plan on doing 5500w...

Welcome! Also from STL here. I started out having never brewed and jumped right into all-grain about 9 months ago. This site has been a life saver.