Recent content by mleary

I let my first attempt at a lager ferment in my 50 degree basement for a week, then brought it upstairs for a diacetyl rest at about 65 degrees. I did not take a gravity reading before moving it, and I'm thinking I probably moved it too soon. Bubble activity had slowed down before I moved it...

I was just using whatever beersmith told me for a single infusion, no mash out. I'm at work now so dont have the exact numbers, but I think it was about 1.3 quarts to pound. Now for my high gravity brew, beer smith had me sparging with less water than I mashed with. From what i've read you...

Interesting... So should I be concerned about the PH of my mash water at all? I'm just using city tap water treated with campden for chloramines, which has seemed to work ok for extract/partial mashes.

Both batches I got the grains from LHBS and ran them through their mill. In the future i'll probably mostly order crushed grains online just because they are so much cheaper than what my LHBS charges.

I got some AG equipment for Christmas and have made two batches so far, but having a few problems. I'm using a round 10G cooler w/false bottom as a mash tun and fly/continuous sparging. I'm using 5.2 stabilizer and sparging for about an hour probably, through a colander to divert the flow a...

They ended up emailing me back yesterday, and my order shipped already - so I'm happy :)

Ok, thanks. I'll try giving them a call this afternoon.

I emailed a question to kegconnection customer service last wednesday about an kegerator kit I was considering buying from them. By Friday I still had not heard back. I wanted to get started on my kegerator build, so I went ahead and placed the order since they seem to have a pretty good...