Recent content by kpfeif

Nebraska's corn and beef country. Take your wild accusations elsewhere.

H2O2 also degrades fairly quickly, so if you buy it in bulk you may find its efficacy decreases as you store it.

If your keg is too cold, it probably wouldn't make a difference whether your lines are chilled or not. Have you ever opened a (nonfrozen) beer from the back of the fridge, only to have it turn to a slushie as soon as you crack it? The same thing might be happening in your connections; when you...

Try turning your fridge temperature up a few degrees. I think you're getting a little chunk of ice in your line/coupler that's agitating the beer as it comes up.

I'm not a dude, dude. I'm just giving the guy my advice: if you want to look like a professional, don't wear flip flops to work and don't make questionable jokes to your customers. It's not my money to lose. I wish him the best of luck!

The title on your blog is "Chicks Dig the Knob"? That actually made my stomach turn a little when I clicked through. You might want to reconsider the blatant use of penis references in your business plan.

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I've gone to exclusively brewing 2 5 gallon batches at a time; it only adds about 1.5 hours to the brew day and you didn't need any extra gear. Schedule is like this: - heat sparge water - dough in #1, heat mashout/mash 2 water - mashout into bucket, dough in #2 - transfer 1 to brew pot, boil...

I did crabs in my aluminum pot a couple weeks ago, no problem. Just sniff it before you brew again and make sure it's nice and clean.

Your data actually show that your hop oils ARE more soluble in your beer. When you smell your beer, you're smelling the hops dissolved in the CO2 that's coming out of solution. When your beer is a BETTER solvent for hops, less of the compounds will go into the CO2 that's coming out of solution...

If you have a slow CO2 leak from the keg you could be stripping out the aroma hops more quickly than you would in bottles. Aroma hop compounds are only slight water soluble and are much more soluble in CO2. So if you vent your keg a couple of times (to fill bottles, for example) you will affect...

I mash for 5.5 gallon batches in a 5 gallon cooler with no problem. You just have to mash kinda stiff, like 1.25 qt/lb, but it works fine, my efficiencies are in the 70-80% range.

If you stay in Oakland, Beer Revolution and the Trappist are the two to check out for beer. Both downtown close to bart so you can probably stop by on your way to the city. Actually if you head down to Revolution you should also stop by Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon on Jack London...

35 minutes would be plenty of time for the mold that your house is infected with to drop into your wort. Try getting a roll of wide aluminum foil, sanitizing it, and putting it over the kettle while you cool the wort. Between that, new yeast, and cleaning out the ball valve, I would bet you'll...

Am I using the wrong tubing in my beer lines? I use 1/4" ID vinyl tubing, don't see why a plastic tubing clamp wouldn't work on that. Is "real" beverage tubing different?