Recent content by brewer72

Hi Michael and other Fellow Brewers, I spent the last year putting together my HERMS. My system consists of HLT (converted Keg with SS HERMS coil, MLT (20 gal Blichman), and BK is 25 gal mega pot. ½ SS tubing between vessels. I have two chugger pumps 1 under HLT, and 1 under MLT. I set up...

Ah! I didn’t really pay that close attention to beer flavors until I started brewing, but I have noticed more and more, the faint flavor nodes in different style beers. Judging would be a sweet deal—drink, drink, drink!

I might have trashed my first batch of bavarian! When bottling, I only used 1/3 cup of corn sugar. I should have used 2/3 cups. This is my second year of brewing, and what a ridiculous mistake to make. Bottle conditioning was supposed to take around two weeks around 35 degrees, but because I...

Good to hear from you. Excellent! Thanks for the heads-up. I have been reading about how to build mash tons. I have a friend who is an engineer, and he can/will build just about anything I give him to build. Pretty cool to know people with skills! I think I am going to get an outside burner and...

Hi RWeather3: Thanks for the follow-up about conditioning. I conditioned all my brew last year at room temp, and it turned out fine. This year, I have decided to play around with conditioning temps to see if the results are different. I’ll let you know what I find. I have read a little...

Hi RWeather3 Excellent-- thanks for the follow-up. I made a Bavarian Wheat and used danstar munic yeast-- temps for fermentation are between 55-65f. After I made the beer and pitched the yeast my talking thermometer junked out—I think it got too much steam. I stuck my fermenter...

It was excellent to identify another blind brewer! I am blind also-- no it wasn't because of bad beer-- however, that is pretty funny. I brewed my first batch of the summer-- a batch of Bavarian Hefeweizen yesterday, it is sitting in my basement in a cooler on ice-- trying to keep the yeast...