Recent content by PereJoe

Excellent tips, for both the purging with fermentation off-gas CO2 and salt trick to add to the bail legs. Clever. I guess a bit of sand could work too, and withstand sanitiser rinses too. Thanks!

For small 25 ltr 6.6 gal batches I’ve never had problem just sprinkling 1 dry yeast pack over well-aerated wort. For my 1 bbl (100 ltr) batches I always make a 1 ltr starter simply to get the cell count into good range. As experiment (forced...i forgot to make the starter) I once used a single...

Been using Wyeast’s similar high alc tolerant Y1214 exclusively for 15 yrs (just moved to MJ’s M47&31 3 yrs ago) found that if let FV temps get into high range, more phenols just take longer to mellow in secondary and bottle. Low-med range seems good sweet spot, but just don’t worry. (Doing 1bbl...

I finally went with the Sestos 2BE in my control panel too, and at about $24 I'm quite happy with it.

I'm asking myself the same question. Aesthetics seems the only real answer to me: a 1/16 DIN style timer next to a couple PIDs just looks better than a cheapie stick-on timer...but $40+ better?? I can brew almost a whole barrel at that cost. Or am I missing something?