Recent content by dperry

yeah foil makes sense. I think I will do that next time because I also have a problem with it freezing so that will take care of that as well.

This last batch I did leave the blow off tubes on. Dropped the temp on sat night and sunday morning went to check on it and found 1-1 1/2" of my blow off bucket fluid (which started off as star san 2 weeks ago) floating on top of 5 gal of pale ale. yikes! It was a 10 gal batch and only sucked...

I use star san in my airlocks. Everytime I drop the temp to cold crash the liquid in the airlock sucks into the fermenter. What can I do to keep this from happening? I havent had any noticable problems from it but would rather it not happen.

Uh oh I'm scared now. I got one a few weeks ago when they got back in stock. I havent had a chance to brew or use it yet... I hope it will be ok

Ok got it, thanks. This almost sounds too easy compaired to the way I was doing it... You wouldnt believe the trouble I went through to figure it out, measuring half gallons and gallons with a metal yard stick. However once I got it, it worked consistently. Not sure where I got the idea to...

Sorry guys for the confusion. Jafo has it right second batch new grains new recipe. I am wanting to keep hlt hot and full with enough to sparge and top up without completely emptying qnd starting to heat cold tap water for the second brew quicker. I have always calculated the water to drain hlt...

Ok I wasnt aware that I shouldnt drain till dry. So it sounds like what I want to do is prefered. I am not planning to double sparge or batch sparge it. I wanted to be able to have enough water hot in hlt to refill the emptied mashtun with strike water for another dough in for second brew. I...

I fly sparge and can hit my numbers and volumes consistently by sparging and draining both HLT and mashtun till dry to get the preboil volume. I want to try and do a double batch this weekend and was wondering if I could keep my HLT full and hot as needed so that as soon as I hit preboil volume...