Recent content by thb

I made sure to stir like crazy. First time I did a partial mash BIAB I didn't and ended up with a 15 degree temperature differential. Beer still tasted good though. See, this is why I shouldn't sample so much past homebrew while brewing... Hmmm, maybe I'll try kicking it up to 70-72...

That's part of the problem, according to the recipe my OG should have been 1.086, FG 1.023, but I missed the OG by quite a bit due to the excess water. An FG of 1.017 seems reasonable based on the recipe numbers. I could try giving it a careful stir, but I want to avoid oxygenation. Anyone else...

I brewed a Founders Breakfast Stout clone, pretty much following the recipe at https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f68/founders-breakfast-stout-clone-139078/ except that I didn't have enough cocoa powder, so I used what cocoa powder I had and did the rest with baking nibs. This was my first time...

That's kind of what I was afraid of. Maybe I'll just go with the 15 gallon kettle (and a bottle of fermcap :)), then get a 20-25 gallon kettle down the road if I end up doing a lot more 10+ gallon batches.

Yeah, I am planning on recirculating with a pump and using a PID temperature controller to maintain mash temperature (mostly because I like fun little electronics projects), so I definitely will be firing the element. I am planning on using an ultra-low watt density element, and I have seen some...

All right, a Keggle is 15.75" inside diameter, so by my math the pots I am looking at have about 1.4-1.6 times the surface area of a keggle. If you can do 3 gallons I'd have the same depth right around 4.5 gallons, so it sounds like I would be able to do a 5 gallon batch easily enough. Is anyone...

I am looking to purchase a brew kettle that I am planning to (eventually) use for a single-vessel e-BIAB system. Right now I pretty much only do 5 gallon batches, but I could see myself doing the odd 10 gallon batch here and there. It seems to me that the general consensus is that a 15 gallon...