Recent content by pandymen

You don't want to aerate your wort until its chilled....you may induce some hot side aeration off flavors.

People who buy a pure O2 system have wasted their money. The majority of the aeration does not come from the bubbles. The bubbles simply mix up the liquid and cause unaerated liquid to continually come to the top and in contact with room air. I have kept aquariums for years, and my...

for hot ferments like my saison I temp control with a water bath heated by an aquarium heater. Otherwise to cool it just toss a wet cool towel over it.

I just strain into a bottling bucket and then transfer to carboy. I also rock the tube back and forth as it pours into my carboy.

Red ipa, esb, and Belgian saison 12902 + 15 = 12917

The pacman yeast attenuated a bit too much for me. OG 1.065 FG 1.004 when I racked to secondary to dry hop.

@mase - no, i do not have anything for temperature control really. I have placed the carboy in my hallway closet where it is nice and dark and furthest away from heat from the windows. It can get pretty warm in my place in the morning since I am facing east unobstructed, but i've been pretty...

Thanks for the help guys. My condo has been at 68-70 degrees throughout this whole process. My buddy did not seem to think it was possible that it fermented all the way already. I will keep it on the yeast cake through this weekend and will reevaluate if I use my secondary then. I kind of...

He definitely has a pedosmile going on looking at that pump.

So I am brewing one of my first batches of beer. It is an arrogant bastard clone that started with an OG around 1.07. Due to the high gravity, I pitched two packets of Rogue Pacman from Wyeast. I pitched the yeast on Saturday, and fermentation started immediately. It was so vigorous that I...

This is the first beer I'll be brewing. I'm looking forward to seeing how it tastes. At least the hops will cover up the imperfections. I'll edit this post with the results. I'll be using 2 oz. chinook for bittering instead of 1, and I will be dry hopping with an ounce as well.