Recent content by TarHeeledTexan

A cellar from perhaps the oldest recorded brewery in Austin was found during archaeological work for the new City Hall complex. You can get fairly low temperatures in a subterranean setting.

That first one is certainly the truth. I brew on occasion with a couple of friends of mine, but they really come over to socialize, not to work. As such, I make sure that I do plenty of solo-brews to make sure I'm staying on top of everything.

I'm drinking a beer right now that I brewed 3 weeks ago and bottled only one week ago. But I've had other beers that took up to four weeks in the bottle before they were good to drink. I haven't taken great notes about that aspect of my brewing, but my gut feeling is that temperature played a...

When I went to the Rogue brewery in 2009, they have a restaurant upstairs of the main brewery and they have a distillery, but it is not attached to the brewery, but is in a separate building on the property. So, probably semantics.

Thanks for the replies. Sounds like I can't go wrong with either, since I'll be batch sparging as I have been doing with my current set up. And hey, limulus. I'm Tar Heeled as my wife and I moved from Texas so she could go to grad school at UNC. Despite being a Longhorn alum, my sports...

I'm going to be upgrading from my simple zap-pap tun using uninsulated buckets to a cooler system. However, I don't know what type of cooler I want to use. What would people say are the pros and cons of the tall, round coolers (eg. 10-gallon Rubbermaid) versus the lower, rectangular coolers...

I have an opportunity to buy a slightly used Sam's Club (Sunjoy brand) 34 quart stainless steel turkey fryer with a 52,000 BTU propane burner for $50. I know that some on the board have purchased similar equipment from Sam's Club, and I am curious to know what people's experience has been with...

Revvy, I don't dispute your experience, or your effort in trying to educate others, but I want to point out your approach in dispensing information. If you think filling your posts with things like "All you gave me was "My airlock's been bubbling...." And I gave you, it could be the cat...

Revvy, thanks for the partial, and quite snarky, answer to my question.

Bloopy, bloopy, bloopy is correct. And, you're right, I don't know what's happening, that's why I'm asking. :)

I have noticed over the past years that sometimes I have what I would call long-lasting residual fermentations. I will have a main fermentation of 3-4 days, and then my beer will continue slowly fermenting for 2-4+ weeks. It doesn't happen with every beer, but I'd say about half. For...