Recent content by NorCalBrewer1

Haha, good one! :cross: Coors doesn't taste "good" but it is definitely easy to drink a lot of! I like to *ATTEMPT* to make lighter beers because of drink-ability but I'd prefer a little more hoppy flavors than what's offered for your average domestic light beer. Yeah, I left the last bit of...

If you were to pour a TON of sugar/wort into a small pond & bring the gravity up to 1.05 or greater, do you think it would ferment out & the pond (no rain) would contain alcohol? For example, a wild pond with thousands of gallons of water. Just something I thought about a long time ago...

Kind of high imo. Shop around before making any agreements. $30-$45 per fitting seems right, unless your getting it done at a reputable shop. I've been quoted $80 for a SS fitting & large plasma cut off cg. Check out craigslist, they have many good welders looking for work. My girlfriend does...

Thanks for all the replies! I'm letting it ferment out at very cold temps & it's still fermenting just fine, so it may take longer which I'm not concerned about. I'm hoping that the wild yeasts won't be able to eat the sugars as fast as my lager yeast in the cold temps. (~48 degrees F) (Purely...

Oh well, what's done is done. It's been 2 days, should I give it a week of fermentation to see if the infection dies down, or just toss it?

I used star san/water solution in the airlock, cleaned with scotch brite in both fermenters, then soaked in start san for 30 minutes prior to dumping & then transferring the hot wort into the fermenters. It is very hard to tell if it was an infection caused by lack of sterilization or due to...

Just attempted BIAB with no-chill method for the first time... $80 in grains/yeast/hops gone due to an infection of a 12 gallon batch :smack: Definitely never gonna try this method again, as it is not worth the risk. Wild yeasts took over the wort fairly quickly (with airlock/lid attached)...

Sorry if you don't understand. My 3rd paragraph is just another method I have seen where you cook the grains as usual, then drain the wort(with grains) into a secondary bottling bucket with a filter bag over them, so it catches all the grains, and the valve drains into another bucket where you...

Yes, brewing in those bags you can buy from the LHBS that's similar to very stretchy socks. Is it possible to do it this way since I have not made a filter at the bottom of my keggle? Or will it be too inefficient? So I guess it's the BIAB method? I'm looking for conversion in the keggle by...

Oops, I didn't mean to say that =P... I was typing fast. I meant after the water is heated to temp, can I steep the grains & flakes in bags in the hot water to extract the sugars, then remove the bags, add a hops bag during the boil, then chill the wort for ferment, aerate, then pitch. And...

I have some steeping bags, and I was wondering if I could just steep all the grains/hops during the boil/mash/etc instead of throwing it all in to have to filter/strain out after. It seems like it would be much cleaner, but would it be less efficient or not work to extract the fermentable...

Yes, I was using brewers friend. I just used brew target & input all my grains/hops/etc... However, the estimated ABV is different on both programs? Of course, I substituted the American 2-row/6-row for Rhar since there is none on the fermentables list on the Brewtarget program...

I just ran it through software for you. Made it kind of complicated since you didn't specify the amount of grains, but I guesstimated a 5gal batch. To answer, yes it looks like you will have no problems achieving a good ABV with the sugars in those grains. As for unfermentable, I don't know...

Also, do you recommend 1 oz of Galena at 1hr, and 1 oz of Hallertau for 20mins; or .5 oz Galena, and 1 oz Hallertau.

Great to get such a fast reply! Thanks for your knowledge, I need all the help I can get on the hops profiles because I have never used them before. I'm not looking for a target IBU or anything, just the flavor I described. Would you still recommend it?