I think you’re going to get a lot of people saying water chemistry. Although my personal problem was trying to drive high fermentation attenuation. All my beers were fermenting down to 1.008 or lower which left them tasting watery. Once I started mashing around 156F and shooting for 1.013 to...
When I was in Kalamazoo, MI I stopped by Bell's General Store and bought the official Two Hearted All Grain kit. I was impressed by the in-box instructions. The step-by-step guide, brew log, and ABV equation are all really nice. I don't know if they intentionally don't want it available to the...
Selling a custom beer fridge. It’s been painted with chalk board paint and modified to fit three 5 gallon kegs (ball lock or pin lock), a co2 tank (mounting bracket), and extra room for bottled beer. It’s a little noisy when the compressor turns on but I’ve been told a fan needs to be cleaned...
According to the info I found online it’ll fit perfectly. There’d be about 3 inches of clearance between the bottom of the kettle and the spider which is more than enough.
Selling a used Arbor Fab all stainless steel hop spider. It sit 14” off the ground and 6” wide. It’s much bigger than a lot of hop spiders on the market which means more of your wort will be in contact with the hops during the boil or hop stand. Asking for $30.
As a self proclaimed advocate for the M&B I've certainly experienced some of the same as the OP.
One huge improvement for me was converting my old 10gal stainless kettle into a mash tun with it's own temperature probe. Check out my instagram page for details. What I do now is during the full...