Recent content by discoross

I've never cared for wheat ales too much, which is why I've refrained from making one until now, but it came time to finally try it. Recipe from PangeaDestructor on reddit. I think it's adapted from 21st amendment's watermelon wheat: 6lb white wheat, 4lb 2-Row, 8oz Carapils, 4oz flaked wheat...

Thanks, what a relief. Now with 110V will it still allow 10A?

Hi all, I bought an elitech stc-1000 with 110V input and "Relay contact capacity: Cool 10A/250VAC;Heat 10A/250VAC" (although the sticker says 220VAC out not 250). I live in the US, so I probably messed up. I searched these forums and found several old threads where people said they...

I'm on secondary now. I haven't heard of rauchmalt, but can it be used at this point? Sounds like something for the boil

Hi all, I just racked a chipotle porter to secondary. In the last 5 minutes of the boil I added 6 de-seeded, chopped, dried chipotles in a hop bag. Upon the taste at racking, it had the right amount of spice I was going for, but none of the roasted smokiness from the chipotles I was hoping...

Hi all! I'm visiting portland for a few days. Your grocery stores have a bunch of microbrew beers I've never heard of before. What is worth a try? What is worth bringing home? :mug:

Cheers! Did you change anything?

I've never done all-grain, but I would assume you just replace the extract with more Rahr pale malt the partial recipe was developed from this list: http://21st-amendment.com/beer/back-in-black

I want to bump this from a "suggestions?" recipe to a "this is delicious." Only changes - temps were a little low for the mash (not used to this electric stove yet), so kept going for about an hour and later added some more liquid extract. Just kegged it- a little more malty, sweeter, and...

Thanks all for your input. This is my first time kegging, and it unfortunately seems a little non-standard to me. So plans have changed a bit, and with it, my question. We now are bringing two cornys out with us, forgetting about the stuff at home. To avoid leaving a co2 cylinder in direct...

Hi all, I'm in a pickle with two batches, and one co2 tank. One batch is 5 gal and should be ready to corny keg in the next few days. This one needs to stay with me at home. One batch is 15 gal and is ready to (full-size) keg now. This one is getting transported to the desert at the end of...

Hi all, I'm planning on starting a partial mash black IPA - 9# grain, 3.3lb LME. The only dark part is 1# Debittered Black. I only just realized that it may be necessary to adjust the pH for mashing (eg http://www.howtobrew.com/section3/chapter15-3.html). I usually use bottled drinking...

I'm probably going to try this route first (with foam), since it seems easier to start with copper than add it later. Somewhere in that PVC tower cooling thread someone mentions that Sanyo fridge air temps aren't enough to keep the copper cold all the way up since the cold part is at the back at...

hmmmbeer: Sadly, I'm in a shared college house - starting small until I eventually have a garage to fill with my contraptions. "the hole already supplied for the cooling tubes running out the back." Is this standard?

Hi all, I'm planning on building a Sanyo/Danby kegerator, and I'm wondering about the tower cooling. Many insist on some sort of air pump from a CPU fan to avoid foaming. How do people power this? Is it easy to tap into the fridge power, or do people drill a secondary hole out the back to...