Recent content by dano83

Awesome. Thanks for the heads up. Ya, red rocks. I like to go out there every summer. Seeing manson and smashing pumpkins this time.

Sounds pretty awesome.

Thanks for the insight. I was looking through denver breweries because we are going there this summer for a concert.

This brewery in denver claims they have ipas with 160, 170, 190 and 420 ibus. That cant be accurate can it? http://www.breweryrickoli.com/beers

Thanks for all the great responses. This is a kickass forum. I transfered the batch to a secondary fermenter today and it smells awesome and has great color. My second reading of 125 during mashing may have been inacurate.

Thanks for the advice. I'll see what happens with it. I was reading and realized that i should of pre-heated the tun so i did some trials today with just water and that cooler sucks. I heated a gallon up to 180 and put in there for 1 hour. It dropped 30 degrees, down to 150. I didnt see when i...

Correct, the grains and the cooler were cold. My question was whether the batch is ruined or not.

I made my first one gallon kit saturday. Its midwest supplies all grain hop monster recipe but i just bought the ingredients from a local store. Mashed it BIAB style in a 2 gallon water cooler. The issue is that I didnt do a test run on the cooler to see if it would hold temp. The water was...

Hello, I am new so feel free to harass me appropriately. I have never made my own beer but am going to start soon. I came across the 1 gallon method so I think I will start with those since I'm just a poor machinist. My question is, can you take any 5 gallon recipe and cut everything by 1/5...