Recent content by ColinJ

There are several ways to open a brewery but the three most common are: Become a very good home brewer and then start figuring out the finance side. Become good at finance and hire a brewer Start a Restaurant to help fund the brewery and either hire or learn by trail and error. (Licensing...

I’m setup to brew out in the shed with gas but bad weather (freezing weather and snow) and the fact the sun sets here at 4:30pm had me doing a brew inside a month ago and now I’m hooked. I’m limited to 5 gallon but here is how I do it. I tell the wife I’m cooking dinner...

Does your valve still spin? I worked on this some more last night and have it so tight I'm sure the cooler is about to break and still getting water and the valve will just spin around because the hole is so large that when the vessel heats up it starts to move.

I was trying to figure out what was going so wrong with my project tonight.. I kept thinking my hole seams so much larger and I'm going to need more gaskets.. I'll go pick up an assortment of gaskets tomorrow

When I got back into brewing a couple of years ago I started with one of these kits and every batch I've made since then has been with them. Here is my rundown of them Wheat - very nice tasting alittle too light India Pale Ale - only made once and it had a weird after taste American...