Recent content by JohnIA

Hi! Over the Christmas 2018 holiday I intended to brew three batches. I brewed two and ground the grains for the third (a blue moon clone) and prepared the yeast starter. Since then life has got in the way. The yeast starter is in the garage fridge still topped with tinfoil and the grains...

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Hi - I'm trying to enter a recipe from BYO - going with the default grain:water ratio Beersmith calculated the amount of water and the temp I need. I plan to do a 60m mash, then drain, then do a 15m 168 degree sparge. The Beersmith mash profile I chose is 'Single Infusion, Full Body' that...

Hi all! I have a great problem - I'm getting an unforeseen bonus in a couple of weeks and the wife has authorized me to buy a new piece of gear for brewing. I currently have a blichmann pump, a 10g SS Brewtech kettle with whirlpool attachment, an old cooler mashtun, a Hydra immersion chiller...

I just bit the bullet and bought a riptide pump and whirlpool attachment for my kettle. At flameout I plan to hook up my IC to water and get the temp down, then remove the chiller and start whirlpooling. I have two sections of tubing with quickconnects to the pump. I plan to set it all up next...

I would appreciate some guidance around this topic from you learned forum members! After reading various forums I thought I read that it was a good practice to take the beer before bottling - either the primary or secondary, and cold crash it prior to bottling. I had a batch that is ready to...

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Hi all - I'm very new, am around 10 brews in all-grain. Can someone offer some tips around the boil? As it stands I start with my 10g kettle (10g ssbrewtech standard in case that matters) on a propane burner (darkstar I think is stamped in it). I start it maybe a couple of turns up (I would...

Thank you for your help! This is perfect!

This was what the person who taught me how to brew a few months back told me to use: https://www.morebeer.com/products/craft-meister-alkaline-brewery-wash.html

Thank you! I have some bigger buckets but was hoping with those I could brew some higher volumes! Possible to get 6g safely into a 6.9g bucket?

Hi all - I made a Dark Truth clone with starter that is usually very active. The first time I brewed it I used a bucket with a stopper with a steel blowoff cane. This last time that bucket was in-use and the only bucket I had had a 'tiny' standard-sized hole. Knowing that this beer would blow...