Recent content by msayler

That is a mighty fancy looking kettle

Hmm. Might have to go home and take an inventory of the ever-growing pile of brewing crap in the utility room. My wife thanks you in advance

Hmm. I think this would be difficult with the kind of stuff that brewers get in to. To get a malty flavor, you're going to be looking at extracting sugar from malted grains. Being an ex-ecig user, I can pretty much promise you that grain sugars in your tank are going to ruin your heating...

Or maybe.. "There is no 'wine' - only brew, or brew not"

Zoot!

I've had problems come up during brewing that caused the yeast to sit in the rehydrating water for an hour or more, and it didn't affect the beer at all. One was a .065 OG, so I am guessing that you'll have no issues. Fermentation kicking off within 10 hours is definitely a reasonable start time...

Got some of your Farmhouse blend hops last week, and a bunch of Citra just now. Can't wait to make some SMaSH soon!

I love my half-litre swing-top bottles, it makes for a great way to check for carbonation progression. I've never had a problem with the seals, and they do a perfect job of holding in the carbonation. The set of 24 Ez-Cap 'swingers' that I have are second-hand acquisitions from my dad, who left...

As many will also tell you, secondary is not really necessary unless you're racking on top of fruit or other flavoring, or doing a very long aging. Early in my brewing, I ruined an IPA by transferring it to secondary and oxidizing the crap out of it. Tasted like soggy, Mosaic-scented cardboard...

Since you're doing extract brews, an extended boil is not absolutely necessary. If you find that your boil off rate is too high, adjust your hop amounts to reduce the total boil time. But yeah, sounds like you might have it boiling too vigorously.

I wish he'd spilled it on Dan Patrick instead...

Yep, get one of these, or something similar: Reusable "wireless" dehumidifier I've got one in my ferm chamber, and it works great. Prior to having one of these, there was a serious stanky crud / mold problem in there during fermentations.

I was digging through some boxes of crap and found an old 30GB Zune of mine (ha!!), so I was tripping down memory lane with the 'shuffle all' feature. Some rap in there, but definitely no opera! :beard: As far as the CO goes, I'm not entirely sure that I get especially efficient combustion...

A few brewdays ago, I decided to brew in my detached carport, using my propane burner. The carport is about 400 square feet, with two open sides that I have screened in, to keep the bugs out. I had the burner and kettle set up near the front opening (where I added the red X), with a fan...

As long as you're properly measuring your concentrate/water dilution of Star San, you'll never get weird flavors from leaving the minuscule amounts on your equipment. In fact, I've seen anecdotes on the forum of brewers accidentally leaving (comparatively) massive amounts in their beer, and...