Recent content by Steve3730

Got hooked on the dirty lemonade/thunderbolt at my local coffee shop,which is lemonade with a couple shots of Espresso. so I'm going to try it as a beer. Making a basic Berliner using fast souring pitch. During the second boil I'm unsure if I'm going to use lemon drop hop or traditional...

Hi welcome! Chicago here good to see a fellow IL brewer

I'm looking to host a free workshop at my homebrew club in Chicago. It will be geared towards new brewers and people who never brewed before that are looking to see the step by step process of All-Grain brewing. January is my 8 year brewing anniversary and to celebrate I want to give back to the...

I left a wet baking pan on my white Quartz counter top and it left a rust stain. Nothing was taking it off. BKF soaked rag for 10 minutes and it was gone!

Have seen a couple old post about making a NA beer using the stovetop method and wanted to try this experiment going one step further. I will use my still to remove and measure the exact amount of alcohol and volume I'll be removing from the beer. I've considered doing an APA but have read...

I have a 35 gallon uncharred unused I believe French oak barrel a winemaking friend gave me. I was thinking of taking the dregs of any Cantillion, 3F,Etc bottles in hopes to make an environment for spontaneous fermentation but with Belgium's good bugs. Would this work? Should I sanitize the...

Picked this up used. Needed some work but its up and running! Will be a future piece for my homebar build. Keglines will come out the side go in a wall and tappers will come out the wall

Anyone in the Chicago area next weekend my homebrew club is hosting their quarterly party. Non-recurring trial membership grants you access to the party where we'll have 20+ homebrews on tap and 3 guest taps from local breweries and homebrew shops. Our featured beers will highlight fruits that...

Anyone looking for a great Saturday night of homebrew and chili Chaos BrewClub's stout and chili night is tomorrow. Very open welcoming party lots of homebrewers and craftbeer lovers talking shop. This was my first event I ever went to at Chaos and they were very welcoming.

interesting I was thinking the heat from the element could give it a false reading but I trust everyone's knowledge here. Thanks!

Thanks after some research i've realized this. I'm going to put the probe a couple inches from the end of the element and where the tube turns to go to the output

Easy enough to build at home? I already have a pump. I work for a place that sells stainless pipe so can easily make the vessel. I'd just have to buy an element and pid. 4000w element big enough? And the probe would go in the mash tun not in line correct?

I haven't had much experience with electric besides my still has a 5500w element with a SCR controller. But I'd like to know if I took an element and put it in a small vessel and circulated worth from my igloo mash tun into the vessel with the element controller by a PID and back into the mash...

No such thing as too much information. Thanks a lot going to give this a try

There is no issue of tannis? I know there is debating on smashing or squeezing grains can release tannins