Recent content by Brewklyn

Just put 5 gallons in my carboy last night, can't wait to try it! 1,243 gallons and counting...

Thanks guys, good to know. I'll let you know how it comes out...should i wait for it to fall before taking any gravity readings, racking to secondary or bottling bucket?

I'll try giving it a shake. In the mean time, here are some pics...

I will be able to post them later tonight

I'm only on my 3rd brew so sorry for all the quesions. It's been a week and a day since i pitched brewed and pitched my yeast (made a starter from a vial of liquid) into a smoked porter. White foamy krausen rose up and started to settle which was great but now there is a layer of wet, gooey...

cool. But even if i made a bend in the screen and the screen was on the bottom, i don't undedrstand how more liquid would be able to get out becase the spigot hole is still a half inch off the bottom.

i did fill the cooler about half way with some hot tap water but did not heat the water on the stove or anything like that. I guess that will be my next test.

Hi All, I just converted a 5 gallon igloo cooler to a mash tun. I plan on doing a partial mash Alakan Smoked porter clone. The kit i received has a total of 3.5 lbs of grain. I estimatedIi should be using about 5.25 quarts of water. was I did a few tests to see if it would hold temp and...

Thanks for the response. I did read through that link which is extremly helpful and my concern was maintaining temperture. I figured it would be easier to do so in a cooler and also start to get me used to procedures for all grain after the winter.

I just ordered a mini-mash kit from AHS that comes with 1.75 lbs base grains and 1.75 lbs of steeping grains. I plan on building a mash lauter tun from a round cooler and wasn't sure if a 5 gallon one would be too big for partial mash and if i was better off making one out of a 3 gallon cooler...

Looks like Austin Hombrew has a Sam Smith Nut Brown Ale clone kit. I never made it so i can't tell you much about it. http://www.austinhomebrew.com/product_info.php?cPath=178_452_43_262&products_id=1837

I live in an apartment as well and i don't think you'll have anything to worry about saftey wise if you are boiling on your stove and not using a turkey fryer set up indoors. As for odors, i would say no more so than if you were doing any amount of normal cooking in your apartment. Plus, it...

Thanks! Looking forward to trying it

I've been thinking about doing a mini mash for my next brew. i don't have a ton of space or equipment and was wondering if putting the grain in a muslin/nylon bag holding at correct temp in kettle, then pull it out and ladle sparge water over bag into the kettle would work? Thoughts?

Well nothing i can do at this point. I'll just see how this one turns out :mug: