Recent content by RevFry

I finally got the nice and easy Johnson digital control. Plugged it in and now the damn freezer won't cool. Just keeps running.

Anyone with the cut-in/out screws figure it out?

Sorry I didn't get a photo of table. I couldn't get the camera to shoot the text properly. I'll type it out below. Hopefully someone can make some sense of it. Thermostat Calibration (Not cabinet temperature) Cut In (degrees)F Cut Out (degrees)F...

I have the same "cut in" "cut out" on my Whirlpool EHH-180F. I have a diagram inside the service plate. I'll add a photo of it in a moment.

Yeah, this is all good to know. I used campden on this last test batch and the plastic taste is gone. Does/can campden impart an after taste all its own? I crushed the tab with a spoon but the bits never seemed to entirely disappear. I'm thinking of moving to the charcoal filters just for...

Yeah, same here. Drank a 22oz of my 4.2% the other day and had a nice buzz that I didn't quite achieve with the 7% bomber i had today. Dunno what it is. At one point I wondered if it might be a reaction to the fresh yeast in my beer. But, I've for nothing to support that notion.

Wonderbread: Yeah, up until now I've been doing partial boils and dumping cold tap water into the fermentor to make up the volume. I suspect that could be the difference between us. I've got a bigger kettle now and plan on continuing to do biab and full volume boils, as well as use a filter on...

Do you filter your water, let it sit out, or add it at the end of the boil to make up volume? I just know that the tablets are the one thing I changed and finally I'm not having problems with this last batch.

Been having problems with a plastic taste/burp in my beers since the new year. Just tried a glass of a test brew I did with campden tablets and the (what I now believe to be) chlorophenols are not present. What a relief. The LHBS said it was lacto. Glad I found the water issue. Seattle bumped...

Nice tip, matt. I'll have to check that out. I'm in Portland all the time.

I could use one!

Dickson, I'm a few blocks from Bob's. I recall he has a Rogue kit, though not sure if it's dead guy. But I think he was piecing it together from a recipe he found here. I know that Bob does have the pac man yeast in, if that helps.

Say I brew a batch with chlorinated city water and it produces the plasticy phenol after taste and smell. If I don't mind the aftertaste is it still okay to drink? Looking up chlorophenols gives all sorts of doom and gloom but those appear to be dichlorophenols.

Brouwer's in Fremont is good. Elysian's has nice atmosphere. Here's brouwer's beer advocate page. http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/11121/ Elysian's is easy to google. We've got a ton of great places to grab a pint.

Nice! I have a bunch of pur filters laying around since our last filter broke. I'll rig something like this up. Thanks.