Recent content by piper55

Absolutely worth it taking everything apart and changing o rings is great advice, also oxy works better hot.and when you get the o ring get some sanitized lube and put it on the o rings

I do it in the mash, leave it chunky in 1 inch cubes. i roast it in the oven for an hr. with pumpkin pie spice

yes a few of them but I go out every night to check them, they are eating cones.when I find those bugs the cones they were on look like that

i grow 4 bines and prune them until they are loaded with hops ,then I let the shoots on the plants grow. i got 2 harvests off a 3rd year chinook this year over a pound off 1 plant so far

I have those to I keep a bucket of water near the plants and I pluck them off and drown them

That screen looks small and fine, I have a sabco I covers the whole dome of the keg it only clogged once but I had 40 lbs of grain in it. the only other thing maybe is you are grinding to fine maybe

I once put 5 lbs. of raspberries into a carboy with a wheat beer on secondary fermentation, the berries capped the beer built up co2 pressure and exploded quite violently and frequently ,not a good situation. next time I soaked the berries in vodka for several hrs"small amount ,just enough to...

Im brewing in Ct. with a 3 sanke rims system. I have been brewing for about 3 years and I have 50 gals in my basement. i am a brewaholic