Recent content by Suicided1954

UPDATE: My experiment worked!!!! I made a ruination clone and and it turned out better than my last go at it which I thought was close. I whirlpooled at 200 deg. for 1 hour after the boil. I added my late hop additions and what should've been my dry hop addition at the beginning of the...

Super strut is all bolt together stuff and super stout. I built a mini conveyor dryer for my mobile screen printing operation out of it.

Super Strut

I am an idiot... or I had one too many homebrews last night... it just occurred to me that i could've added water and brought the gravity and volume back...

oh Lord.... 1.093!!! Glad I made a 2k liter starter..... The clone is out the window...now I just hope it's drinkable.

Well she is still making steam and still evaporating... I didnt take that into consideration. I will be 3/4 of a gallon short. I hit my pre-boil gravity and I was supposed to have a 1.076 OG.... 15 minutes left.

Installed in keg and Initially leaked in one and not the other. I used pipe dope on the non-leaker and regular teflon tape on the one that leaked...fixed with the teflon in a tube...

From the Wiki: Kettle boiling hydrolizes SMM to DMS which is removed during evaporation. The half life or time needed to remove half of the DMS is 40 minutes so that three-fourths is removed in 90 minutes. Narssis recommends a 100 minute boil to reduce the level of SMM and DMS to acceptable...

Yeah I'm think I'm ok...We'll soon see. I am looking to replace the dry hopping with late hop additions in the whirlpool.

I read that Stone Brewery whirlpools @ 200 degrees for 75 to 90 minutes. I have the ability to whirlpool at a maintained temp now that I have my electric kettle. If I boil for 90 minutes and whirlpool @ 200 for 75 minutes, then send it through my counterflow chiller. Am I at risk of forming DMS...

Well the bad ssr just let it get 100% power ignoring my set point of 150 and boiled. The new ssr gives it 100% power during the heating cycle and it's hasn't done it since I cleaned off the scale. I don't use tap water to make beer, I make water for that. It was just another little...

I don't know what the original tastes like, but I must've done something wrong...mine's been in the keg almost a month and still tastes bad. I can't even get through one glass before dumping it. I'm going to take it out of the rotation and let it sit and think about tasting better. It is still...

The best I can figure is I had boiled some water in the hlt because I had a bad SSR out of the box and there was mineral build up on the element that i hadnt cleaned off. I cleaned the element and havent heard it since.

So i fired up the e-kettles this eveining to run the autotune and what not...the element in the HLT emits a high pitched tone. i rotated the element and nothing changed. the brew kettle doesnt make any noise. both are 5500w stainless elements. what gives? thanks Darryl

Thanks, I'm in Katy, just west of Houston. I'll take a shot next time i'm in it.