Recent content by mrgobucks

Thanks...I've seriously taken the approach of "It's just beer, mate" In other words, I'm not overly concerned at this point! Wife and daughter are out of town for a couple days, I'm gonna brew two batches and sip out of the keg, might even watch a little football!

I was using a oven digital temp. gauge until my father in law came over to help with one of my all grain batches. He told me I was crazy and gave me a 5 reader thermacouple (digital). I just mashed in for the first time today using the new temp gauage. Man, did I miss my temp by 5 degrees...

Thanks guys. I hooked it up at noon, applied 22lbs. At 5pm it dropped to 20lbs on the regulator. Hit the corny with soapy water and found a leaky pressure release valve. Disassembled, cleaned, reassembled, applied lube. applied soapy water, submerged. Not leaking right now. Hopefully, I...

First time kegger here. I've got a new to me system. I'm wondering, if I take an empty keg and run the pressure to 20 PSI, turn the gas off and monitor the pressure gauge on the regulator for 24 hours, assuming it doesn't drop in pressure, can I then assume I'm good to go? If I get any...

Interested in one of the extra regulators if you stumble upon one. Live in sc so would need it shipped. Thanks, marc

Thank you guys! I don't think I stirred good enough. I'll keep plugging away at, making small changes in the process to see if that increase eff. That being said, made a rookie mistake and didn't leave enough head space, even though it was a good 6 inches in the top of carboy. Checked on...

Here are the design and mash pages. I started with 3.75 gallons, then put in 4.75 gallons to sparge with all at once. Thanks for your help.

Here is the screen shot from beersmith....

Hi Guys: Just got into brewing beer a couple months ago after making wine for a couple years. Anyway, started out with a couple extract brews, built rest of equipment and then decided to get into all grain. That being said, my first all grain was the coldwater 420 recipe floating around here...

Found one Locally...Sorry for late reply. Thank you to both of you for responding and sorry for the late reply. Thanks, Marc