Recent content by dhoyt

Yeast bank check in. Label wont work, which i figured. Not sure about the yeast settling but I guess we'll find out.

Mine are ok, there is only a total of 12 ml in it so there is enough room in there for expansion i think. The caps are plastic though so I don't know how there will sterilize in a canner but time will tell i guess. For these new ones I just soaked them starsan for a day or so, only cause I...

Old post revival... I am having this issue with the tilt reading off from the thermowell. I have tested my two tilts and a couple other sensors and they all read within 1 °F of each other so they are all good. I do expect some variation from the top of the fermenter to the bottom but I have...

I also bought boro glass tubes to reuse and limit plastic. I was curious how the caps would do being sterilized in a pressure cooker. Mine have a silicon seal in the cap I think so should be good. You have had no issues with that?

Yeah I'm thinking 10 vials might be too many really. I think doing 5 should be sufficient and give me more room for a better variety of yeast strains. Do you have any thoughts on the yeast count / calculations? I seem to be missing something with that.

The buckets come with lids and they seem pretty airtight. When I push on them I don't hear any air. I still took the extra precautions of putting the grain in food storage bags with oxygen and moisture absorbers and wrapped it tight. It might take me a year or two to use the 165 lbs of grain is...

I did my first batch for the yeast bank yesterday. Things I noted and also questions... I apologize ahead of time for my ignorance. It seems that you need about a full 1 - 1.5 L starter to get the amount of slurry you need to do 10 - 15 mL tubes. I realized this after I did a 1.5 L starter for...

Yeah problem is I'm already committed since I bought 6 buckets and returning them is probably more trouble than it's worth. Honestly they seem to be pretty air tight. I went ahead and just bought some food grade 15 gallon storage bags and some oxygen absorbers and humidity absorbers for extra...

I bought some gamma seal lids and some YVH buckets for grain storage. I realized once the buckets came in that the gamma seal lids will not work with these buckets. I don't want to and probably cant realistically return the YVH buckets without hassle and easily returned the gamma seal lids. So...

I tried double checking brewfathers yeast starter calculator and the only options are for packages of yeast. I guess my question is, would there be any reason why these numbers would change, like the age of the vile? If so how did you get your numbers? Did you use a calculator and which one?

This is what I'm curious about really. I'd like to program the chiller to dynamically change the setpoint on fermentor setpoint. I heard some people doing what your doing here but didn't know if there was an issue with the glycol getting gross.

Awesome, thanks gents! Cheers!!

I'm curious if there are any downsides to keeping glycol temps in higher than normal ranges like 55°F. I am thinking about this for a few reasons but one of them is when I am not fermenting beer there isn't really a need to have the temps down at 28 °F. My concern is if higher temps would assist...

Well to my surprise!

Agreed. Really just creating a bigger itch to grow hops in my backyard!