Recent content by Dennis_W

That's what I figured. I think I'll get my water test 4 separate ways first. 1. straight from the well 2. softened from the house 3. run through a "cheap" carbon filter from the softener (as I already have the filter housing) 4. run through a "cheap" carbon filter straight from the well

Wow sounds like you had a real disaster on your hands chucko! Let me ask you guys this. When I look at RO systems they say 50 gallons a day. With lets say a 4 gallon hold tank. For brewing when I need 10 gallons for mash water, 10 gallons for sparge water and maybe I want to do a double...

thanks for the input guys. I've read mixed reviews about using softened water. All and all I'm not sure which way I'll go. RO doesn't seem like an option at this point because I don't want to have to transport the water from the house to the garage and the garage isn't insulated so in the...

I'm looking to get a water filter and wondering what the best/cheapest option would. I understand that best and cheapest don't really go hand and hand but I digress. I have very rusty well water.... I've never taken it to get tested. I'd like something that was easy to build and easy to move...

A lot of people have said that it takes around 6 weeks for the beer to get really good. Anyone ever try to filter it? Did you still have to wait around 6 weeks? And without reading 241 pages..... is the consensus still US-05? What about 1056?

I'm building a fermentation chamber with an a/c unit. The A/C unit that I have picked out is a standard analog dial with a high and low setting. My question is inside the unit is there still a temperature probe that I would want to route outside the chamber? I originally thought no since...

I'll shot for an hour on my brew today or tomorrow and report back.

Ok here is my situation. I have a DIY single tier converted keg setup with a single pump. Boil kettle, direct fired mash tun, and HLT. My brew days go something like this.... Put water in Mash tun and heat to 165, add grains and temperature drops to 153, stir good and then stir a few more...

Good to hear limulus! If you have any suggestions on getting a good seal on the door I'm all ears!! I like the two fridge option. However, I'll be building this with very little approval from my wife and the a/c unit I got for free so if went and bought two used fridges I'd be in big trouble...

I'm looking to build a fermentation chamber and put it in my garage. For space reasons I'm needing to make it long and skinny. My thought was 8' long 2' wide and 3' tall. I plan to insulate it with 1" foam board and use an a/c unit for the cooling that will be located on one end. The door is...

I think if i put 2 4x4 vertical posts that it would be firmer. But its not to bad as is. It can be leaned on but i wouldn't want a 300lber drunk leaning on the very end of it.

The "L" is what's holding it up mostly. I also got some scrap 2x4's and screwed them into the long part of the "L" attaching the two pallets together. But yes they are just stood up on end.

Yea I would never do that. It's in a peice of crap garage, its perfect for it's surrondings.

hence the big brown line in the middle....Found it in a puddle of water. But hell i got solid bar for nothing!

Here is the finished bar. Might do something with the top still.