Recent content by IslandMike

I love the restaurant equipment. Costs a bit but its gonna make your life a ton easier. Not to mention it will be useful for so much other stuff too.

I'm silver with envy.

My sanitation is pretty good normally but this brew I think was doomed from the start. I made it at a buddies and had to transport it home, I noticed later on that the bucket lid was cracked in two places, and also when I pitched the yeast the first time it didn't take for whatever reason. I...

Hello everyone, Did a bunch of searching about infected beers because I recently got my first infection. It formed a nice film on top of the wort and had some thin white strands all over. Now, I don't really care about figuring out what it is but I want to just save the beer. I have read...

Any chance of running a few grains through there to see how well it crushes them? Curiosity about that grip tape doesn't like to wait for you to build the rest of the thing hah. ;)

Looks like you need a blow off tube from the blow off tube bottle...

Not only am I thirsty but now very, very hungry. It all looks awesome. Really excited to hear how things progress. Mike

I have a weird craving for a grapefruit now...

I use frozen ice bottles but I don't put them directly into the hot wort. I put my pot in the laundry tub and then fill around the pot with water and put the ice bottles in there. That makes a nice little ice water bath for the pot. Also, I would imagine the glass wine bottles might even...

It coming along. I've had a bit of a problem getting some of that enzyme though so it is sitting right now at 1.009. Its pretty tasty and I imagine it will still be good once chilled and kegged. I am still hopeful that I can find somewhere else near me that will carry it. Homebrew stores are...

Excellent thread. I think I'm going hunting for a lab equipment store tomorrow. If not, then ebay shall prevail. Thanks for the great info! Mike

I finally got the parts I needed to get this working, AKA I finally found the Sanke tap that was hidden at my buddies house so I could use my 1/2 bbl keg to ferment. I was wondering, however, if anyone tried this with wine? Or even Ed's Apfelwein? I wonder if this will speed up the process or...

Thanks for the info. I imagine I will end up liking it regardless, however I am trying to use this to bring a couple of my friends into the wonderful world of home brew. Can't wait to see the end result though. Cheers

Hello, I just made the extract version of this for a friend of mine and it seems that it went pretty well. I used Hallertau, however it was the first time I used the late extract addition technique and I think my IBUs ended up closer to 22 than 17ish. The OG sample tasted pretty bitter to my...

This the thread? https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/beer-gone-cooking-mash-tun-gone-souse-vide-174958/ That's an interesting read actually. Might have to try that one out sometime.