Recent content by jcarson83

Swmbo slayer was always a hit and easy.

I haven't been to this site in 6 years and it's still an active community! Keep it up! This is going to get me fired up and back to breit's done. Taken a break for the kiddos but it may be time to teach the little ones how done.

I think that's what I paid. It was 4 or 5 years ago though. You got me thinking I was full of it but I just found one on ebay for $80(new).

Don't expect to get anything but gravity from honey if you boil it at all. I use US-05 for all my pale ales and IPAs with good results. Thats a prime temp to ferment it at too so I would expect many off flavors from it. It may just be a little young yet.

Some yeasts are worse than others. I always get it really bad when I brew a belgian.

I bought my 40qt stainless for $60. Not the heaviest gauge but it works.

If your taking gravity readings of your batches make sure you correct for temperature. At 160F a 1.010 reading is actually 1.032.

What's your ferment schedule Yooper?

Btw I like the 63 ferment. Perfect. What's the ferment schedule?

Looks like you know what your doing. Hope to hear that it turns out. Maybe this will be my come back brew.

I would wait to use it until close to the end. Near boiling water will melt it really quick but <90 should help you speed up the temperature drop in the last few minutes.

I am assuming what you are describing is the cold break. Its normal. Depending on the recipe it can be really crazy at times, almost like a lava lamp. The goal is to chill the wort rapidly and get the cold break to settle and rack as little as possible to primary.

It's either get on HBT or watch Dinosaur Train with the boy. I do like Dinosaur Train though.

Looks like Beer Hunter is coming out this year. I managed to track down the Discovery Channel shows from the 80s and they are great.

Glad to see the continued interest in the thread. I have to say though that I've moved on. As much fun as its been messing with this project someone finally gave me an old deep freeze so that what I'm using for my fermonator. It is 100x easier too. So for all of you that don't have the extra...