Recent content by jayh

After brewing the recipe for Smuttynose's Noonan clone from the Jan/Feb BYO, and really enjoying it, I happened across version that Cambridge Brewing made at one point. The Black Ryder Being very new to trying to replicate a beer, does anyone have suggestions on amounts of the different...

I'm happy to hear it ended up tasty. I bought all the ingredients to brew this today and the guy at my LHBS asked me straight up, are you sure you want to add milk chocolate to the boil? I had the same reservations, but I'm glad a quick search turned up this thread. I'll be brewing this in a...

I ordered one as well. Seems like a good middle-of-the-road price for those of us with terrible DIY skills. Response time on the order was lightning quick too.

I brewed a partial boil extract version of this last month and it ended up being a very tasty stout, but not as much chocolate as I hoped. I did learn a few things, like don't bother with a strainer when pouring the wort to bottling bucket to aerate it. The cocoa powder will just clog the...

This is one of the few keezer threads where I see an actual closeup of wiring the TSS2 for controlling just 1 temp. I see how you have the love wired, but I'm confused on how you wired it to the outlet. I'm trying to figure out which wires are for the outlet, and which one acts as the ground...

Yeah I topped off. I've only got a 5 gallon pot so I'm limited to partial boils. Hopefully I'll be buying either an 8 or 10 gallon pot next month :)

Hi all, I brewed the Smuttynose Noonan clone from the latest BYO but ended up with an OG of 1.046 instead of the listed 1.071. I'm curious if it was due to more wort boiling off and adding more water than expected to get to 5 gallons? In a scenario like this do you just proceed as is or are...