Recent content by Ccceric

I just throw a pound in every brew. Sometimes I have a pound on small green bills that are 10 pounds or less but I’m pretty lazy so usually just a pound

How did this turn out??

I currently dough in at the set mash temp, so I know that there is a short drop then. I used to stir the mash in the cooler every 20 min, and stir during the batch sparge as well. Maybe I should be stirring the mash in the GF too?

I used a cooler before, and I always pre heated it so my temp stayed ver consistent. Brewing the same recipes in the cooler and the grainfather with the same yeast and same temps the grainfathers batch FG is 1.017 and the cooler would be at 1.009. It seems to be every batch, I brewed a dry...

I have a question, and sorry for the back to back posts... I have done 6 batches in the grain father and all of them have had a much higher FG than I was expecting. On my old system s-05 would always go sub 1.010 but now I am in the high teens. Any ideas????

I knocked off my filter during the whirlpool, I couldn't do much about it so I just waited a bit longer for everything to fall out before transferring. It worked great! I didn't take apart the pump, i just blew some air back through it and called it good.

Anybody have a link for the caps in the first post??

I have one to add, the other night I kegged a kettle sour into one of my sankey kegs and cranked the PSI up to 40. I set it on the floor and started rocking it back-and-forth with my foot and I heard a couple of quick psst... I didn’t think anything about it at the time but about 10 seconds...

Looking for input on this recipe. I plan on soaking vanilla beans in vodka and straining in to the fermenter at the end. I would to hear any suggestions. TIA Eric HOME BREW RECIPE: Title: Vanilla porter Brew Method: All Grain Style Name: Baltic Porter Boil Time: 90 min Batch Size...