Recent content by ReverendBrett

Try grinding 3 flats on the shaft, using a small grinding bit available from home depot. Those flats will let the drill chuck get a better hold of the drive shaft and present slipping.

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Stop reading, get out there and brew. While your beer is fermenting, you'll have plenty of time to read. You'll gain better understanding of what you're reading. You'll learn that there are an enormous number of Advanced Brewing Techniques, none of which are needed to make great beer, but...

I've requested the Northern Brewer catalog, any other's you can suggest?

Thanks for all the advice! I think I just picked the Irish Red because of the excitement to do my first batch. I didn't actually give any thought to what I was getting, or I would have grabbed and IPA. It just sounded good. Then I spent last Saturday night down at Stone Brewing, and was just...

I brewed up an Irish Red Ale kit from my LHBS last weekend. Pulled some out today to check the FG (1.011), and chilled and tasted the sample. No hop aroma at all, which I've now learned is normal for this style. Should I just throw some more hops into the bucket a few days before bottling...

Right now it's just a bottle of New Belgium Red Hoptober. But in a few minutes I'm going to drink that sample of Red Claw Irish Red that I pulled out of the fermenter to check the FG on. It's been in there 8 days, sitting at 1.011, and smellin good. Small glass in the fridge just to cool off a...

Bottleing bucket, ferment bucket and lid, airlock and stopper, hydrometer, bottle brush, capper, cleaner, book, and racking cane and tubing I think. Had to buy sanitizer, and have added a theif and auto siphon. I plan to buy another ferment bucket, lid, and airlock for having another batch going.

The small kit is plenty to start with and get brewing. For the brew pot I went to home depot and got a $60 turkey fryer that worked great.

AG is the difference. Extract usually runs about $4/pound, bulk is $3. At 6lbs per brew about, that's $6 bucks saved per batch.

I've been considering this route to, just for the advantage of buying 50 lbs of dme for $150. But I was planning on going amber rather than pale.

I got the $69 one, because I wanted to get started as cheaply as possible. But that's probably a better kit. I bought an auto-siphon and would like another fermenter like the kit has.

Thanks guys! Way more info online than there used to be, for sure! Can't wait to bottle and taste, and make more!

I don't have another primary, was planning on getting a secondary this weekend. But maybe I've been reading too much. Current plan is to stop by the LHBS and just get another 6.5 bucket/lid/airlock for a fresh batch.

Ok, I'm getting what you're saying. Let me ask ya another question. If I wanna brew another batch, can I rack the first so I have room in my 6.5 bucket for another fermentation? :-)