Recent content by Ztp

Just before white oak additions

What has your final gravity been on these beers?

That's good to know. I have one consistent De Garde yeast cake that has produced the best beers, and others have been less than stellar. I wonder if it is natural condition versus wine yeast additions? I may have to dig into it and see if certain series use wine yeast or not.

Persimmon sour

Pellicle on a persimmon sour and the beginnings of a pellicle on a peach & nectarine Berliner Weisse.

I have about 50 gallons of different sour beers under my belt, and the best advice I can offer is to mash high (158-159 depending on recipe) harvest dregs from your favorite wild/sour offering, build it up, and continually pitch on top of the old yeast cake. That same community of microbes will...

Very similar to what I made for a homebrew competition last year, but I used a wood burning tool to etch the letters in.

I contemplated using dehydrated cherries, but I found they normally contain other additives (e.g. Sunflower oil) which could impact the beer's head and possible taste. So, I opted for a bottle of organic tart cherry concentrate from Amazon, and some bags of frozen tart cherries. Next time, I...

I'm using this guy. Went with the extra amps to help with the low speeds and higher torque. http://m.lowes.com/pd/Kobalt-10-Amp-1-2-in-Corded-Drill/4166003

Sweet baby Jesus that thing will look sweet, love that cedar slab. Man it'd make me nervous as hell leaving something that looks like that outside. No telling what all the salt content/humidity in the air could do to it. Hell I'd set my TV on it if nothing else, just to keep it inside.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that soup cans still contain BPA. Which is more of a hazard when heated.

Well I am no SS welding expert myself, but if I remember correctly, getting stainless too hot can change the properties stainless has (eg not rusting). Or there is also another possibility that maybe the incorrect form welding was performed. I once welded (MIG) some hinges on a stainless keg...

Thank you. I looked on there but must have missed that box. I appreciate it.

Finally got the chance to brew again the other day and decided I'm going to finally do a few upgrades to my equipment. I'm having trouble finding a sight glass that fits sanke kegs with a bulge. Does anyone have an idea where I can find one? Any help is greatly appreciated.

I still think it would be a good idea to throw a Carbon Monoxide detector in there just for safe measures. You can pick one up at Walmart for like $15, and while ya may not be exposed long enough to do a whole lot of damage, it can still make ya sick as hell. Pretty sweet set up though.