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We are going to try this as a holiday mulled hefe.

Sounds good. Wish I could come, but I am on duty tonight. Our next brew is the 5th I will be happy to PM an address if anyone wants to visit.

Cool to hear. We have been slowly starting a club as well. We are the Midwest Band of Brewers (on facebook) and are also located here in JOCO. We started out as several guys brewing on a one barrel system and have grown so much that we are working on forming a Co-OP. There are about 15...

I thing o2 is more of a problem than heat. I would be tempted to say sour the wort in a 5 g carboy if you cant really seal off the mash. A corney would be great for a mash.

I made a photo book of how we did our sour mash. It was quite successful. Can't wait to taste the finished beer. https://berlinerweissesourmash.shutterfly.com/ We mashed in a milk can placed into a water bath. Then held 120 f with a heat lamp for two days after a flush of co2.

I did but it has not shown up

You are correct, we use a totally separate tank for the herms water. The first sparge water in is at 200 only to help raise the temp faster. The second one is at 168. The tun never gets warmer than 168. What you are talking about doing makes sense to me.

Yep batch sparge in three steps. Empty the tun, add 200 degree water circulate and dump, add 168 water circulate and dump. Neither water tank is used for step mash. Thats all done with the herms. Im just using one tank to make getting up to mash out faster. We had a similar problem...

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The RIMS thermocouple is at the wort output of the heat exchanger (chillzilla CFC) I am only running 20 amps of 240v, so going from winter ground water to strike temp for a 1 barrel brew takes about an hour. The step mashes we have done do take a little longer than I would like. I plan in...

Last fall I ruined a wheat with my RIMS system. We had two systems running together in the garage. On was running RIMS the other was not. Identical recipe. The RIMS system started to smell horrible. We ended up trashing the beer. When the heating element was removed it was covered in...

Just got a 10g milk can: http://hambydairysupply.com/xcart/product.php?productid=1946&cat=317&page=1 WOW! much higher quality than I thought. Here is the plan: 1. Drill lid for air lock 2. Heat water in can to 158 3. Heat water in our 55g boil pot to 148 with E- HERMS 4...