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I made the Sam Adams summer clone off of the recipe database here (w/o the grains of paradise) and it turned out kinda meh. So I made it into a shandy that was awesome, I've brewed it twice since just for that. I'm a dipa person, but I like having a lawnmower beer on tap. :off: it's so...

Looking to brew 10+ gallons of a mexican style lager and im trying to figure out how to do the yeast. I have a 5l flask but that only seems big enough for a 5 gallon batch. Do you think Safale 34/70 would work? Ideally I'd like to do 15 gallons but this whole lager yeast thing is new and it's...

Yup that's the exact one I use also

I did a side by side fridge conversion, it's in a detached garage and it's typically 10 degrees at night in winter, sometimes a lot colder. I have a Wal-Mart space heater and two computer fans circulating air. No problems in a couple years of using it. I stack two buckets on one side of the...

Bumping this old thread to say I ended up making one and it's made life so much easier. I just fill and boil my HLT, not having to worry about stopping at a certain temp. I gravity feed and it's easy to hit my temps dead on. Sure I'd like a HERMS or RIMS setup, but until then, this valve has...

Don't know if anyone is interested but stopped by Fifty Fifty today and they have Eclipse bottles available. Stouts aren't really my thing, but didn't know if anyone is interested. Looking for DIPA's. They had: Coffee Blend $27 Cognac Barrel $30 Elijah Craig $26 High West Bourbon $26...

In the latest BYO, theres a pretty cool idea about using a mixing valve to control water temps for mash in and sparging. (https://byo.com/stories/issue/item/3147-mixing-valve-projects) I thought it was a really good idea, but so far have come with one issue. If you're mixing cold (from hose)...

I used insulation because I had some extra laying around, so figured the more insulation the better. I only use the pc fans to circulate air when I have two buckets fermenting at the same time. If only one is in there, there is no problem. I've been using mine for a year or so and I'm...

(1) Analog, it was free off Craigslist. (2) I used STC-1000 controllers, I havent had any problems yet. (3) I did setup a fan to pull cold air into the ferm side originally. I haven't quite tweaked my final setup, I'd say for me where it usually cold you don't need one. If I had a warm...

I made a box for a couple batches, but ended up making doing a side by side fridge conversion with one side as a ferm chamber. I rigged one of those walmart heaters into it to warm it up all winter. No problem maintaining temps all winter in single digits. Plus if you watch out on CL for a...

Bump, has anyone brewed this?