Recent content by skoodog

Thank you all for the great advice! I think a BIAB setup is in my future. Oddly enough, I did end up using rice hulls as I do anytime i use wheat or oats, but unfortunately it wasn't enough - I'm also going to take a look at my screen at the bottom of my tun to see if there's something wrong...

As suspected, yeast was DOA here too - I even tried to cancel the order before it shipped out but the guy just said "it's already on the truck." Is that why I didn't get the shipping confirmation til the next day? Sounds like someone's getting hit with a chargeback fee.

So I tried my hand at one of the new New England IPAs and to start it seemed like a good brew day...until I'm ready to mash out and as I open the spigot it trickles out and stops, forcing me to improvise (I'll call it ghetto mashing). I essentially poured my mash water out the top into a...

Sorry to piggyback but better a same thread than a new one, right? :) I've only ever bought equipment from NB (all solid) but with the run on London Ale III I had to use them as the only place I could find it. That said, I'm really concerned on whether my yeast will even survive the trip b/c...

Good article but would love to see a table of actual additions by imperial measurement because I'm a stupid Yank and none of my spoons measure in grams. :) That said, what profile would you recommend using for a New England IPA style?

+1 for doing a simple recipe. Pliny clones cost a ton due to high variants and amount of hops. As a guy who's done a number of IPAa, grain bill and mash temps are extremely key. Water chemistry tweaking (or build from distilled) can help a lot too. I also suggest going with a high...

Thanks so much for all the interest on my post! Also apologies - I forgot to mention that i pitched two packets of US-05, so there was lots of little fellas to crap out some nice warming alcohol for the winter months. :) I pulled a reading yesterday and it got down to 1.030! This is easily...

Pardon the terrible Wilson Phillips pun, but quick rundown: Did a brewday about a month and a half ago doing this recipe. This was easily my best brew yet, but I greatly underestimated my efficiency and ended up with a hydrometer-measured reading of 1.150 going into the fermenter. :eek...

From a business perspective this will probably be great for the homebrew community. This merger will help Northern Brewer get better quality ingredients as the leverage of the name InBev as a buyer from grain/hops growers will be much bigger than Northern Brewer alone. For LHBS shops the...

I'm no expert but here's a few things that I've done to highlight hops in my brews - bitterness is never lacking in my IPAs unless by design: 1) I build up my water from distilled, so for a typical 5 gal batch (19L?) i add 2 tsp of gypsum and 1 tsp of CaCL to get my water right. Your water...

Blast! Ah well, thanks for the tip! Saved me $50 :)

Hey all, I'm working on finding a more efficient way to chill wort as currently I put it in my keezer until it's cold and usually pitch the next day as I find the coil method to be horribly inefficient and ends up wasting a ton of water and ice. I came across the Koolatron Coca Cola fridge...

Awesome, thanks for the advice and quick reply! I don't have a garage - only a carport.

So my buddy and I planned a brew day tomorrow but it's going to be pouring for a straight week...since my rig is propane powered and I like having an uncharred house, that pretty much means it's off. I've already started my starter - do I just leave it going or throw it in the fridge to stall...

I've got almost no carpentry skills (working on getting better!) and I did my ferm chamber with a wine fridge and a Johnson controller. Zero carpentry experience needed - one drill through the bottom of the insulation to feed the temperature probe, some velcro to hold the controller unit on the...