Recent content by BrewFuerte

Thanks! I have been very happy with the design. I have seen several online that are similar, and there are even pictures of one on the website of the vendor (Brewers Hardware) I bought the burners and stainless heat shields from. I did mine a little differently by putting the small pieces of...

Now you have seen one... My Frigidaire with a Johnson Controls temp controller does just fine. A schwartzbier is currently fermenting away at about 50 degrees F... Make sure that whatever size vessels you plan to use fit in the model you are looking at.

My rig:

OK, thanks.

Yes,that is what I did. It worked. Of course you are right about autoclaving aka pressure cooking. Some spores are not killed at boiling. For the work I am doing right now this is not critical, while for long term storage it may be. I am sure there are plenty of folks that do not autoclave and...

I guess the slurry had yeast in it. 1.08 IIPA now bubbling away happily. I appreciate the help everyone!

I am a brand new member of this forum, but not a brand new brewer, and I have experience with a 10 gallon cooler all-grain setup with both a braid, a mesh "bazooka tube" screen and, later, a copper manifold using both batch sparging and fly sparging. For the sake of the conversation, I will...

Makes complete sense to me. If I want no crud next time I can do it the "right" way. If it doesn't ferment properly this time, that is a clue that the big pour off of beer I did early in the process took my yeast down the drain. I don't think that is the case though. What I have now looks and...

Thanks, you posted this as I was posting last. You answered the questions I was asking, I think. Thanks again. I am doing an 11 gallon batch of 1.08+, so I will use about 2 cups or so.

Right on, and thanks for the responses. I have read the yeast washing sticky and plan to follow that type of procedure in the future. The reason I didn't this time was that I decided to skip it since I wasn't needing to store the yeast, but didn't want to pitch onto the entire yeast cake mass...

Hi There, long time lurker first time poster here. I have searched the forum and Google on this topic, and there are lots of threads, but I can't seem to get clarity on exactly my issue. I am sure it is an easy one for anybody with a little experience harvesting yeast. Here is my situation...