Recent content by d3track

more greetings from Minneapolis!

I don't have much for advice on mead, but welcome from another Minnesotan!

Great looking sealer - def interested!

Just my recommendation to get you the end result you are looking for: 1) Find kit recipes you like at Northern/MoreBeer/etc - they have the recipes as PDFs 2) Add the specialty malts, hops, yeast to your cart (just omit the base malts) 3) Enjoy brew day!

Fantastic!

I'm also interested in the 2-probe model

Might be interested in this thread Homebrew Talk 3D Print Thread. I have a good amount of 3D printed parts around my brew system and workshop, but nothing that touches wort.

Is that a gallon of syrup, or sap?

No to underpitching - especially a lager - this falls into the "do not recommend" area

your only regret will be if you don't do it

Just to validate, are you sure it's properly connected (wort out at water in, and vise versa)?

Did you measure how much you are actually leaving behind? I'd be wary of trying to get too far down to the bottom and sucking all of that trub into the plate chiller. My side pick-up leaves about 1/3 gallon hop/protein/wort trub in my keggle, which works out pretty well since I don't use a...

Glad you had a good Thanksgiving guys! Turkey, pumpkin pie, coffee porter, and a nap mad for a great day!

It sounds like your volume into the boil kettle is low - is that correct. IMO, you have a few options: a) additional sparge of the missing volume, then more wort into the BK b) additional water into the boil kettle (treat for chlorine/chloramine if needed) c) reduce boil viggor to reduce boil...

Drag, I like the idea of it, and was hoping to get one to try, then the recall started. Hopefully it is something fixable and they come on market again...