Recent content by SloTimes

@Staticsouls is 100% correct. I would actually advise you against getting the 50ft. Happy to answer questions about the assumptions made in that post.

The topsflo pump advertises 4.5m of head which is less than the 5.6m of the March/Chuggar clone. So you will not get quite the same flow rate from this pump. http://www.topsflo.com/special-pumps/td5.html

I tried what you suggested and increased the minor loss cof for the mash until the "optimum" reached a point with the flow rate around 1.8 gpm and the length results didn't change too much. The new set point was 20ft of length and 1.8gpm of flow with and outlet temp of 73C with with a 9C delta...

So I stumbled across this article the other day: https://www.brewpi.com/what-is-ideal-herms-coil-length-theory-experiments/ The further I got into the article the more the analysis motivated me to do my own. They neglect some of the true physics at play and treat many variables as fixed...

Im working on a new brew stand and figured I'd throw it all in NX first. I was just hoping someone might have a CAD model already made of the 10 gallon rubbermaid coolers.

Count me in as well!

I tend to use this calc. Its nice for stepped starters. http://www.yeastcalc.com/ It says that for 10 gal of 1.060 wort youre going to need 418 Billion cells, a two liter starter on a stir plate will get you at a max with day one fresh yeast 310 billion cells. If youre doing 10 gal batches...

Any advice as to where we can buy small quantities of that wedge wire?

I just brewed this except I upped the roasted to 1.75 oz just because I can! The wort sample was great! Came in at 1.060. I'm excited to taste this sucker!!

Great company and I love ordering from them.... but I've been short changed by them a few times. A few bags of one lb specialty grains came up short. Just last weekend I ordered a pound of chocolate rye from them. My 1 lb bag had exactly 11.69 oz in it... and no it wasnt my scale its still...

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/beer-men-smarter-study-article-1.1059752 Proof! lol!

Yeah the more I think about it/read about it the more I realize that there is no way you could get in trouble with that little amount of Zinc.

I have seen some talk about the zinc coated elements being a possible concern because of the zinc reducing and then you end up consuming the zinc. Is it worth it to get a stainless element? Would this one work? http://www.comfortgurus.com/product_info.php/products_id/7053 (yes I am...

So the US-05 took it down to 1.035. I then made a 2L starter of WLP099 Super High Gravity yeast and pitched that. The stuff went absolutely nuts, I let that go for another 2.5 weeks, took a gravity reading and my hydrometer read 1.010.. Im not really sure how it fermented that dry but it did. I...

Brewing this right now! Ill check back in after a few weeks and let you know how it goes. I did up the Magnum by a quarter oz.