Recent content by ed2670

I just ordered a couple of the electronic display tap handles from ibibrewing. Since they allow the transfer of any image from my computer I was wondering if anyone knows any good resources for label images. Not sure I have the time to design mine from scratch.

The Clone Brew recipe turned out pretty good. Not exactly Singha, but a reasonable approximation. I'm headed back to Thailand next Thursday for 2 weeks--I'm looking forward to the real thing. Do you need an All Grain or Extract Recipe?

I figured out that I spend about 7-10 minutes of time around the house counting brew day and preparing things such as yeast. Add in trips to the LHBS, time spent building fermenters, kegerators, etc... However, it is an awesome hobby and I try to look at it differently--you have fun doing...

I would say for a 5g batch I go through about 8 gallons in the HLT, 6 gallons in my fermentation bucket for sanitizing just about everything and another 30 gallons through the day washing different things. I reuse the sanitizer for my kegs. I also consider my chiller free because I port out...

You take your starter with you camping so that you can continue to step it up and brew the day you get back.

I went all grain. Funny thing was that I had my first stuck sparge after about 40 successful runs. Typically, you think rice with the Asian beers but I think I do detect a hint of corn in this one and had plenty of experience drinking it since I just got back from Thailand about two weeks ago...

I brewed it last week and is in the fermenter right now. I will let you know how it turns out.

Nope...I have a natural gas tap with an auto shutoff. It's nice not having to worry about filling bottles. Someday, I will go electric.

Several hundred gallons is a fairly typical evaporation rate for a medium size pool in CA at this time of year.

My thoughts on an efficient way to apply a water bath (if you have a swimming pool like me): I usually have to add hundreds of gallons of water a week in the summer in order to keep my pool full. Ambient temperature usually sits around the mid-80's but the tap water come outs at more like 65...