Recent content by Tom Smith

At a party, how can you tell the difference between an introvert engineer, and an extrovert engineer? The extrovert engineer is looking down at the other peoples shoes...

Brewman, I appologize if I came off sounding confrontational. I certainly didn't mean to offend. It is an interesting idea, I wanted to highlight some things that some people may not be aware of. You ask if I'm a microwave expert, and I have to say, humbly, yes. I design high power components...

If you did want to stick with the microwave idea, you could use microwave safe plastic tubing (off hand I really can't think of what to suggest), drill a series of small holes through the door, where the holes in the mesh already exist. If you could find a good way to seal the tubing to the...

While we are throwing credentials out there, I as well am a electrical engineer, and have been working with microwave communication equipment for many years, and just recently took on a new role as radiation engineer to analysis circuits in a nuclear radiation environment. So ... there is a...

Rodan is right, there really aren't very many homebrew shops in Canada that deal in stuff other than wine or beer kits. The three that I know of in Canada are: wineandbeerfactory.com/ www.paddockwood.com/ www.5gallons.com/ If anybody has other links for Canadian websites, please post them!

Timmy, Here are some good suppliers in Canada. I'm trying to find some more though, but I've had good luck with these guys so far. wineandbeerfactory.com/ www.paddockwood.com/ www.5gallons.com/

Yeah thanks, rdwj. I did a search ... after I made the post ... doh! Lot's of great info there, and one more on the Canada side out in Vancouver! Whoo Hoo!

There aren't any real LHBS around my place, so I order all my supplies online. And from my searching around online, I've only got a few choices in Canada namely: wineandbeerfactory.com/ www.paddockwood.com/ www.5gallons.com/ I would like to get a few other suppliers on my list for price...

Yeast can survive the cold very well, they just can't tolerate heat. Even if on the odd chance the yeast are pooched, the batch will be fine, just repitch with new yeast (assuming you have some).

Hey Steve, I wouldn't worry about oxidation unless it is being poured into the secondary in a way that it is mixing with the air (getting agitated) as it would if you were dumping it in. If you are using a syphon hose, and placing the hose at the bottom of the secondary so that it doesn't...

And they are Canadian cups ... but I converted using the Celcius to Feranheit formula and adjusted for the exchange rate...

Has anyone ever had 'bad' LME, but which still gave you the right SG and FG? If this is the case, doing dantodds LME/Corn sugar test should tell. Tom

orfy, I'm using a handcapper - the typical butterfly style. And as for the caps, it's nothing special, just the typical ones from the LHBS. I've used different types of bottles in the past, and they've all had pretty much the same carbonation level. So I can see it being the seal. Has anyone...

Oh, and sorry, yes these are all 5 gallon batches.

dantodd, I like the thought of splitting the batch in half and trying corn sugar vs LME. With respect to how long I let the beer carbonate in the bottles - I'll often still be enjoying a brew that I bottle 2 - 3 months prior. So I'm sure it's all fermented out. Also the beer isn't sweet too...