Recent content by mirthfuldragon

I set my grain mill over my kettle on some 2x4s and crush directly into the mash water, giving it a bit of a stir every couple of pounds or so. 84% brewhouse efficiency. And less work. Mostly the "less work" part.

Honestly, brewing has been one of my cheaper hobbies. I think I am about a grand in in gear when all is said and done, and I haven't bought any new equipment in probably eight months - there's no need. I've actually sold off a fair bit of extra gear. Five kegs, three fermentors, keggle...

EVAbarrier tubing and Duotight fittings are everything they are cracked up to be - fixed my foaming issues and are a lot easier to connect. If you have to have hose clamps, invest in an oetiker tool and stepless clamps. More is more here as well; I had 1 tap kegerator, converted that to two...

The Westmalle strain does relatively fast. I'm looking over my tilt data and it hit terminal FG in ~6 days for me, from 1.090 to 1.009. That being said, I did let it sit in primary for a 3 weeks and secondary for another 4 before adding yeast and bottling.

Overthinking it. Buy a Jaded Hydra and call it a day. It will chill to within a couple of degrees of incoming water in less than 10 minutes, so unless you live in the Southern US or other place with warm tap water, it is more than sufficient. It's also built like a tank.

The tubes are all soldered together. Also, the top bit of coils are above the wort line in my keggle on a 5g batch, or just about, and it doesn't seem to hurt anything.

I just went and measured mine. The top coil is ~30", and there are 3 sets of 9 coils, so making some assumptions, ~60'. But also note that the three coils run in parallel. In a 50' single pass chiller, equilibrium with the hot wort probably comes in the first 15' or 20', so the rest of it...

As an avid DIY-er, woodworker, mechanic, etc., who has made his own wort chiller, just buy a Jaded Hydra. It's right there next to my Bosch router in tools that over-perform my expectations. It's built like a tank, the bends are tight and no kinks, and it's sturdy enough that I let my heavy...

Thanks everyone. I ordered two rolls of 13/64 EVABarrire tubing (39' per roll). Would I see any issues with 13' lines, or should I be going longer?

Hey everyone. I purchased a second-hand kegerator keezer ~ 2 years ago, and I've been fighting tubing and foamy pours, and I finally decided to fix it and do it right. I am trying to figure out what size tubing it actually neeeds. It pours okay at around 7 or 8 psi. I pulled one of the...

Burner sold. Still have the 5g plastic Better Bottle and 6g Vintage Shop PET fermenter. $20 for the pair. I upgraded to fermonsters.

Out of curiosity, do you put the grain in the bag and then the bag into the water, or the bag into the water and then the grain into the bag that is in the water?

I'm usually a bit neurotic about my decimals, but yes, 0.025, or that's what my Cereal Killer says. I keep meaning to pick up a set of feeler gauges to actually measure but never do. A credit card won't fit unless the rollers try to grab it. I have not had any issues; efficiency levels are...

One of the big pluses to BIAB is using a single vessel, so there's no need to lauter and sparge into a bucket/vessel. You certainly can, of course. I squeeze the bag with some silicone gloves and it's not really a big deal. For grind, I use a cereal killer at a gap of around 0.25 or so...

Selling some extra brewing gear. Located in Arlington Heights, IL. 5g PET plastic better bottle, $10 6g PET fermenter, $15 Bayou Classic Burner, $20 Photos at Brew Gear Sale 2020