Recent content by Steven_C

Imperial Stout

Gatherings with friends, company picnics (it's good to be the boss)

Definitely count me in as well!

Count me in!

I'm in too!

What business in CA? I'm at the "just take my money" stage of wanting one :)

Thanks Doug! I will definitely include a switch, and will do on the GFCI.

I've been doing BIAB over my kitchen stove for a couple years now. My wife now wants me out of the kitchen, and I'd like to use a hoist to hang the bag anyhow, so I'm going for the basement. I'm adding a 5500w element from BrewHardware to my existing kettle and I'm planning to use an Arduino to...

I'm a little late to the party, but if you need another tester, I'd love to.

Thanks for the input. I'm going to be trying another one soon. I'll definitely try the lower mash temp.

I had a similar brew day where I got a second beer from the second runnings. However, on the big beer, I ended up with too much unfermentables (I think) and it ended up being almost cloyingly sweet. Would doing the longer mash, and maybe at a lower temp (I did 153) help with that?

Count me in. Thanks for the giveaway!

I'm in for the fermenter. Thanks Delta!

I recently did a bigger stout (9%), and did a porter with the second runnings by just putting the bag in a second vessel with mash-temp water for about 30 minutes, stirring every now and then and squeezing the bag well. The second runnings gave me what would have been 4%, so I added Molasses to...

As an update, just found a adjustment calculator for my refractometer, and I'm basically right where I should be! Thanks @tripeland