Recent content by ReverendJ

Yeah, been in touch with the store I bought it from and the company, they're sending me a new pump hopefully that fix the problem, otherwise it's the control box that's busted.

I would say I love the Grainfather for how easy it is to use, but my pump died while cleaning the Grainfather after the first use. Not terrible impressed with the build quality right now.

From the video it looked like a corked glass bottle, the thing that helped keep the cork from rotting was that the ship got buried in sand and silt which helped preserve all the organic matter.

Very interesting story came out a few days ago about a shipwreck off the coast of Tasmania that crashed in 1797. The ship was carrying 17000 gallons of beer and a few sealed bottles were salvaged about 20 years ago and they were able to (possibly) recover the yeast and re-active it. You can...

I'm making a Heff, 5.5 gallons and 2 gallons of experimental cider 8496.5 + 7.5 = 8504

This article came in the Boston Globe today, interesting tidbit on the tie between the increase in microbreweries and beer snobbery. Though personally, the side article on the beer snob who went to Germany left me wanting to punch the author through the internet for how pretentious he was...

Hey All, No, this isn't another "BrewDog posted it's recipes" thread, it's a discussion of their beers and brewing in general. As I was going through their recipes I noticed a number of their beers were 80-100 IBUs up to 200 IBUs (ignoring the crazy stuff like beer bottles made out of...

Title says it all, the Scottish brewery BrewDog just released ever recipe it has for you to download, 215 in total to try out. Some are quite simple others are quite complex, just about every style is available. Check it out and get experimenting. The don't have times in their hop schedule but...

Title says it all, the Scottish brewery BrewDog just released ever recipe it has for you to download, 215 in total to try out. Some are quite simple others are quite complex, just about every style is available. Check it out and get experimenting. The don't have times in their hop schedule but...

Making a Dead Guy clone, 5.5 gallons 3309.75 + 5.5 = 3315.25

Count me in!

I use a kiesesol and chitosan mixture (super-kleer) which nanoparticle silicon dioxide and long chain polysaccharide so no gluten in that, not vegan however (chitosan is extracted from shrimp shells) if you're giving your beer to a hippy/yuppy commune.

1681 + 5 gallons of ESB 2.0 1686

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AZM3HV2/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 $40 Hop Spider, works much better than a funnel with a strainer saves me a ton of aggravation every brew.

I'll add the one I broke earlier this year, stupid construction of the tube where both ends were capped, except one end wasn't on very well. Took forever to clean up that mess. 2017