Recent content by Slim M

Well yeah it’s better than no news. I feel for all the employees & their families that lost jobs.

Yeah I did the same because back when I moved up to 12 gallon batches first run I put an airlock on it and it pretty much blew it off when things got rolling. Basically I get a cheap quart spray bottle from the dollar store and drill a couple holes in the upper neck so I can run a shower...

Anyone use regular old washing soda by itself for anything? I was thinking of using messing around with it an seeing how well it work with cip cleaning because man it’s cheap.

I don’t know if this counts as a recovery story. I feel like I have to credit the yeast for this one. Years ago I had a 12 gallon batch of honey wheat going. It was spring time and the bees were out. I couldn’t keep them out of the shop where I was brewing, I bet when all was said and done I had...

When I first tried biab I done a few 5 gallon batches to see how it would work out. With the 5 gallon batches I never had more than 12 pounds of grain so snatching the bag out was easy, but when I start back my usual 12 gallon batches it got pretty cumbersome. That’s when I got a ratchet...

Which bag is that?

I made a roll around hoisting beam thing basically just a piece of vertical 1 1/4” square tubing with a 2 foot 90 degree section attached up top with an eye bolt through it to attach my ratcheting pulley that’s rigged for 2:1. If you don’t weld or do metal work you could probably come up with...

Yeah I like the simplicity of biab over my old 3v fly sparge ways. I haven’t been an efficiency chaser in years but more of a consistency chaser a with my recent back and forth trials between 3v & biab, Biab is the way to go for me. Years ago I chased efficiency on the 3v doing multi step...

Yeah maybe one day I will have a dedicated space but sometimes you gotta live within your means & make do with what you have. With the wife going back to school and raising 3 teenagers that kinda how it is for now.

Yeah that’s about what I got it at now, but I would rather not mess with it because I know what to expect I just about always hit my og plus or minus .001

Yeah for sure. I’ve never gotten my time down to 4 hours though. My biggest time waster are setting up, moving things around & chilling. I yield about 11 gallons on packaging day. Chilling isn’t a total waste though because I sanitize my fermenter & start cleaning up a bit. My brew area is...

Yeah, I’m lazy. I use the calculator.

Years ago, when I first got into home brewing, I started out with extract batches, but soon graduated up to all grain. Back then brew in a bag was not a thing or if it was, I didn’t know about it so I had a three tier system that I use for several years. Life got busy though, and I took some...

What What pump you using?

I’m wondering if any of our friends down under have any cool tricks or methods, I think I’ve heard them mention tight water restrictions so they have adopted a few unique non traditional methods, no chill brewing comes to mind.