Recent content by Buckeye_Brad

This past Monday (Memorial Day) I brewed a 5 gallon extract kit of "Area 51 Pale Ale" (Galaxy Hops) from my local Homebrew shop, Paradise Brewing Supplies. My first time dry hopping. It is fermenting nicely in my temperature controlled fridge. The instructions call for dry hopping 2oz of...

With my immersion chiller, I simply coil the slack of the incoming hose in a small pot filled with ice-water. This pre-chills my tap water enough to chill the wort just fine. In fact, the first time I tried this, I didn't monitor my wort temp closely, and it overshot down to 60 in under 20...