Recent content by missedtheapex

Your comment--original, cogent, thought-provoking, and most of all relevant--wins the thread. There is clearly no reason to continue this discussion. We have our answer.

I didn't mean to leave the impression that I tossed everything from the kettle into the fermenter. That half gallon of gunk filling the cone was just yeast and 1.5 oz of pellet hops used to dry hop in the bucket. The kettle hops and break material were all left behind by a good whirlpool before...

I'm pretty surprised to hear that anyone could be successful with leaving the arm out. In the one batch I have finished in the Brew Bucket—a 1.072 IPA with Bell's yeast—the trub completely filled the bottom cone and was actually above the level of the valve. The racking arm acted as...

"Would it be like Colt 45 or would it just be gross?" You need to give us two different things to choose from.

That's the problem with any show like this: the people who are the most excited about it are the most likely to be disappointed. It's made for prime time on a major network. It will necessarily be diluted for the lowest common denominator. Anyone who knows enough to be interested isn't going to...

Would the OP care to let us know roughly where he/she lives? Knowing what part of the country (if even in the US) might make a big difference in suggestions. How readily you can get your hands on a recommendation from somewhere like Russian River, New Glarus, or Three Floyds depends greatly on...

I would love to participate in this. I keep seeing wishes I'm able to grant. But at my current rate, I'll hit 100 posts some time around 2018. I'm a post consumer, not a post generator.

Fat Head's http://fatheadsbeer.com/beer.html posts the ingredients and necessary vital statistics for most of their beers.

Looks very nice! I had been hoping to use my new bucket this weekend, but I haven't gotten a shipping notification yet. And I doubt that it will make it to Ohio by the weekend at this point, unless they're using crazy-fast FedEx. Given it was free shipping, I'm sure that it's not. It's okay. I...

Good to hear the "5 minute" buyers are seeing some shipment notifications. I was in that group, but haven't heard anything just yet. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I think the importance of the longstanding "introductory price" notice can't be overstated. Quite the opposite of "bait and switch", SS Brewtech has actually done exactly what they've promised from day one. Explicitly. Not a shred of chicanery. The meaning behind the introductory price was...

I did a partial mash on an oatmeal stout that was very similar. And in my case, I just swapped out some of the DME for a pound of 2-row pale malt. (BeerSmith helped me make the substitution, as it's not exactly pound-for-pound) I did a "temperature controlled steep", trying to keep it in the...