Recent content by geneullerysmith

I too have been known to work on the lappy in the garage while keeping an eye on the mash and boil. Two birds, one stone. Nice.

when making my CPVC manifold i cut slits in the tubing about every 3/8 in with a sharp saw. Your average hand saw is perfect. The cuts are almost half way through the pipe. It works nicely.

+1 CPVC. Very cheap and simple to assemble. A couple bucks, a saw and 20 minutes. Easy.

It has the effect of thinning the beer which can be desirable in larger beers. Sucrose is entirely fermentable and leaves no residual sweetness like malt sugars do.

I had to look up "aleatoric". Thats a fancy word.

+1 for crushing your own grain. Get a mill. Never wonder about it again.

ahhhhh. yeast starters. Thats a good idea. Thanks.

48qt is plenty big enough for 5 gallon batches. Thats what I use. Depending on the gravity of your beer, you may run into capacity issues when you step up to 10 gallons. Given the modest price, get this cooler for 5 gallon batches. Later, if you want to go bigger, invest in an additional cooler...

+1 for not stressing about what does an does not get in to the fermentor. I drain the kettle from the spigot and then tip the kettle to get all but the last 1/2 inch out of the bottom. Also, I dont do 2ndary fermentations except for extended aging. Once its in the primary I avoid disturbing or...

i vote for cPVC manifold. couldnt be any more easy, cheap or dependable. For real.

i would skip the dishwasher step. From my experience the dishwasher does a poor job of cleaning the insides of bottles but does do a good job of baking on anything that is in the bottle when it goes into the washer - making it harder to get out after the fact. The soak, scrub, sanitize steps you...

here is a link to a belgian single recipe by the Mad Fermentationist http://madfermentationist.blogspot.com/2009/10/extract-belgian-single.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheMadFermentationist+%28The+Mad+Fermentationist%29&utm_content=Google+Reader Heres a...

Ive learned to trust my calcualtions and to allow temps to settle before tweaking. It works. When heating the strike water dont just heat until the thermometer reads the temp you are shooting for then kill the gas and dump. Wait a minute, stir the water, then check the temp of the strike water...

The only thing worse than everybody wanting to drink your beer is nobody liking your beer ;-) I say you should stash the rest. Or maybe a decoy label.

well that seals it... im going to make a point of stopping in there at some point. Its just a bit far from Traverse to make a trip for only that, i guess i will stop in to Founders as well and make a day of it ;-)