Recent content by BrianGee

+6=6324

I have the same pump as The Bishop. It comes with a 1/2 barb so I put a length of silicone tubing from the barb straight onto my first tap, optionally jumper 2 beer lines together with the jumper you linked, put a stainless steel carb cap on the dirty beer line connector and drop that end in...

Yep, get a $20 submersible pump from Amazon, a carb cap, some 1/2" tubing, and optionally 1 or 2 ball lock to ball lock jumper posts. http://www.homebrewfinds.com/2012/11/recirculating-draft-line-cleaning-build.html I do it a bit differently than he does - I pump up backwards through the...

I get my fills at a fire extinguisher place as well. The best part is that they do it while you wait and you get your own tank right back - no swap and 5 minutes. That bugger is COLD when they hand it back, though!

+5 carbing up now = 6298

Looks exactly like the issue I started having recently, also after the better part of a year. See post 6940. It was suggested that it could be the fridge going into defrost mode but it doesn't seem so. I powered off the fridge for a while to see if it would reset something but that made no...

Thanks, I like the defrost theory. That could be what's going on. The other doesn't seem likely, as the fridge is in my basement and the ambient down there isn't below 64 so there shouldn't be a need to heat much at all after the initial overshoot corrections. When you look at the waves...

Hello Everyone. I've been having an issue for my last few brews where the temperature control acts perfectly normal for 5-7 days, then suddenly starts swinging and overshooting the set point, both high and low, for reasons unknown. Like this: After many days of only needing short bursts...

I've made this twice now. I poured a pint out of the keg yesterday while brewing an Irish red. It's been in there a little over 3 weeks, racked onto gelatin. Tasty for sure, and dare I say my best looking beer of my 16 batches so far. You can count the dead, withered daisy stalks through...

6169 + 6 = 6175 First keg in the new freezer. Keezer coming this spring!

Thank you. It makes perfect sense, it was BeerSmith's default that was throwing me off.

Sorry to quote myself on this. I'm planning this brew day and haven't done a decoction before. I'm wondering what you guys are using for your mash in water/grain ratio.

I've only been doing this a little over a year. My second brewed batch was made in early November last year as an epic plan to be opened on my 40th birthday late March this year. I started with a NB oak bourbon porter kit. I learned about yeast starters. I bought a second carboy for a long...

I used 8 ounces of bourbon in my 5 gallons of porter and it was the right amount, IMO. I split into two 4oz jars, one with 2 vanilla beans and the other with 2oz of oak cubes soaked for a few weeks and then dumped in. Unfortunately I over-oaked that beer and it's a little bit difficult to...

6002 + 5 = 6007 Was my first time brewing it and my first kegged beer. Took it on a camping trip last weekend and it was a hit.