Recent content by pietro75

You inspired me to begin propagating from my torpedo. I have since converted this recipe to AG. I will be brewing a ten gallon batch tomorrow. Just waiting on a big starter.

Man, I just bought 16 sanke kegs and I don't even know why(other than they were $30 a piece) I am thinking of converting a couple into fermenters and maybe dispensing out of a couple.

It just good fresh beer. No suprise to me that it was that good. It was hard to believe that my first beer was so good as well. Face it, you make good beer :)

Just to let you know, this is great beer! I am finishing the keg tonight and will brew again.

This finished @ 1011 and I must say I was really thrilled w/ the taste,color and body. This was the first batch that I did using the late addition LME and I going close to full boil. For extract brewing I think the techniques in BYO article @ the link below is the a huge help...

This is a good article about extract brewing. The extract actually only needs about 15 min. to boil for sanitary reasons. After I steep my specialty grains I bring the wort to a boil w/ a touch of extract and then add my hops per whatever schedule then w/ the last 18 minutes I add my bulk of...

Please share that recipe w/ me. I am brewing this weekend. I am setting up for AG. My system was inspired by this youtube video.

Just wanted to chime in and say...This Tor-pete-o just keeps getting better! Drinking a 22oz. and thinking that I might want to take it easy!

ps- you can check your hydrometer by using 60 degree water and the reading should be 1.00. If it isn't 1.000 then you will know how to adjust your readings based on where your Hydrometer sets @ 0

Maybe you should type in Beersmith.com and get a trial of the software/ Download the software and then open it and click on new recipe. Type in your ingredients and it will give you an estimate of the starting gravity(as well as final). It will be close. Then you can type in your FG and see what...

Here is a visual comparison to my favorite beer SN Torpedo. I had one last night after two weeks in the bottle and it's getting better. I am trying to wait another week and then fridge it for a week before drinking it down!!!

Little extra info. I did the steep in a smaller amount of water and I made a weak 2.5 pounds of LME wort along w/ the wort from the grains to boil the hops in my 60 min. boil. I added the remainder of the LME @ 15mins. I have a 5.5 gallon pot so I boiled about four gallons.

That is so funny, My wife, Trista said I should write a book "The beer drinkers diet"

Yeah, way short! at least 7-14 days in primary. Your hydrometer will tell you when the main fermentation is done. This is an in depth discussed subject on this site. I used the search bar and have read for days about this and other questions I had. Start w/ this one...

Happy Birthday! You're already mini-mashin', waitin' on a score on a bigger brew kettle to go AG! I got the same fever! haha. Good luck and post the YT link.