Recent content by Chemiker

Thanks for the info. I'll have to be sure to hit them early and often next year.

Thanks for the replies. Now I know to be on the lookout next year, and be armed with a soap/water mixture. I'm assuming that the soap water recipes I have seen online leave so little soap residue that it doesn't affect the beer flavor? Even with weekly application?

I'm pretty sure that what I'm seeing is the result of aphids, but wanted to make sure with y'all. Fortunately I harvested most of my hops before this happened; I just had some cones that were still not ready to be picked, so I left them on for another couple of weeks. By the time I...

Sorry it took me so long to reply. 20" diameter, 17" tall.

I feel so...inadequate :o

I'm not sure, it's the big one from Lowe's. I'll get the dimensions tomorrow.

2nd year Centennial 2nd year Cascade Looking good, eh?

Not sure in your application, but I have had nothing but good luck with JB weld. I had a Honda Civic that was almost literally held together by the stuff. I repaired a hole in my transmission case and another hole in my water jacket with it, and not a drop of tranny fluid or coolant ever...

Very good, thanks for the recipe Sparky! Like others have said, my wife (sorry, SWMBO), who hardly ever drinks beer, said "yum" and went back for more.

Thanks for the tip, that's totally in the plan! Just as soon as I can find space in the garage...

8 weeks for this batch. Doesn't have to be that long, I just got busy and couldn't get to it till last night. I'm not trying to save time necessarily anyway, just a matter of convenience for me. Kegs are easier to move around than my 10gal fermenter and carboys, and I can backfill with...

So I guess the real payoff for me is to save a carbonation step, the beer is ready to go right now, with no priming or additional force carbonation. Next I'll buy some cornys and fit them for fermentation, so that I can do something more like str8wire posted, and save even more steps!

Finally got around to trying this (marathon training has seriously cut into my brewing/drinking time LOL). It worked beautifully! So, here's what I ended up doing: Ferment like normal in my plastic fermenter Siphon transfer into two kegs after complete fermentation (plus a couple extra...

I'm so accustomed to writing in a lab notebook that I prefer doing it by hand. Much faster than typing and I can draw diagrams and write in margins. BUT, I start with a BeerSmith brew sheet. I get my recipe worked out, print it, and have it out for reference. As I brew, I use the brew...

Thank you so much for this - it's exactly what I was looking for. I'm going to take the extra step too and do it more like his method, so that my process is only two steps. My proposed method used my old non-pressurized fermenter, but by using a keg I avoid the secondaries altogether...