Recent content by SpaceJunk

Obviously you are sensitive to others contradicting your "gospel". I will bow out and let you bask in your limelight Master Debater.

Unless of course you are growing oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus) which will grow on anything cellulose and requires almost no other nutrients to produce fruiting bodies. I have grown them on a role of toilet paper before!

Mushrooms (mycelium) is not a mold, it is a fungus.

I hear you and you are right, there are more aspects to a good fermentation like a healthy krausen for instance. So far though my Schwarzbiers have turned out crisp and clean with only a two liter starter. Brewing a pilsner where there is no place to hide for off flavors may be a different...

I am with you, it blows my mind someone would recommend a gallon starter for five gallons of beer decanted or not. I have brewed half a dozen black lagers with two liter starters and the fermenter started bubbling within twelve hours every time Course the only lager yeast I have used so far is...

Wine fridge (with controller) for fermenting ales and lagers Chest freezer for lagering/storage Stir Plate for making starters

That was my understanding as well.

From what you are saying this is a HUGE jump in efficiency over the standard copper wort chiller! What I am not grasping however is from your second picture how you invert the smallest coil to fit within the medium coil?

Now wait, using high proof alcohols to extract herbal oils is a very common practice in this country to produce a "tincture" and can be purchased at any health food store without restrictions. I do not believe that using small quantities of alcohol to extract oils in this fashion is illegal.

I brewed this beer and it turned out great, very drinkable. I have to admit though that being new to brewing and wanting more to experiment rather then be true to style (which will surely gain some frowns), I bastardized this recipe a bit. First I lowered the IBU's some, I used Maris Otter in...

Quarters?

What about filling the bathtub with water and laying the keg down inside it?

I test spacecraft for a living.

Another container that works great for your cultures is Ball or Mason brand jelly jars. They have a widemouth opening like regular jars but are more squat and only a couple inches tall. They stack nicely and the jars give you a lot of surface area on the bottom for your agar yeast culture. When...

And at what point would you add these adjuncts typically, at the beginning of the mash or later in the process, or would you boil them separately?