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No sharp edges. After thinking about it I actually had 4 brews with it before yesterday. Yesterday was #5. I don't squeeze it. I put it in and take it out carefully, turn it inside out to dump it and hose it until every last grain is gone. Then I hang it on a towel bar thing in the laundry room...

Pardon my special characters. My mash tun is a converted 15.5 gallon Sanke keg with the bottom cut out and the 5-piece Bottom Drain Sanke Kit from Brewhardware. When I was putting my system together I liked the idea of the bottom drain mash tun. When I started to look for a false bottom I...

I hear the whispers, see the smirks.

I am the King of long-windedness and the last person who should complain about this. BUT . . . Is it possible to summarize the subject of invert sugar in one factual, scientifically backed, paragraph that anyone can understand? I understand... okay, I don't "understand"... I've read that...

No. I wanted to get the four books in that series, (I guess it's a series). My wife got me Water by Palmer & Kaminski a couple years ago and that's as far as I got that.

Yeah. I'm mostly just rambling now - partly because most of the responses seem to be ever so slightly off target from what I was asking, and I keep thinking if I just add more words that will make everything clearer. I asked this question yesterday morning or the day before, and to be honest I...

Here's what prompted my question: I've been using BeerSmith II for awhile. Every time I open it up to put together a new recipe I can tweak this or that, adjust the numbers in my equipment profile, hone in on the mash schedule, etc. When I get to the fermentation tab, it's always just a guess. I...

Thanks. I'm not good at articulating my questions. I understand some beers are better fresh, (hops fade), and some bigger, maltier beers might be better aged. I get all that. Here's my thought process leading up to the question I tried to ask: Say I'm brewing a Belgian Tripel. I transfer the...

That's how I've been doing it. I know, (on the one hand) there is a certain amount of subjectivity and personal preferences involved. On the other hand there are competitions with BJCP Judges choosing "the best" and beer rating sites like Beer Advocate and Rate Beer. Slightly off topic but I...

I'm not trying to copy any specific fermentation schedule or flavor profile. Right now when I put together a recipe and get to the fermentation part I'm just plugging in arbitrary random numbers for temps and times and crossing my fingers hoping it tastes okay. After 25 or 30 batches over a 3...

Thank you, exactly what I was looking for. I've read a lot of things that say this brewery or that brewery pitch yeast at XX degrees and let it rise to YY degrees, but it's hard to find any solid explanations as to why they use those temps, nor do they go into much detail about the timeline. Do...

I'm not lazy or just looking for someone to hold my hand and explain stuff to me because I don't want to read it for myself. (I obviously have to read it here). I've been brewing a little over 3 years with 25 to 30 batches done. I've read a ton of stuff during that time on fermentation. For...

It's a Belgian Tripel I've noticed a lot of Belgian beers only have one hop addition at or near the beginning of the boil, and yet they seem to be specific about what those hops are. I don't know, I've never done any side-by-side analysis on it. It takes 4.5 ounces of 3% AA Hallertau Mittelfruh...

I found the original recipe in an article awhile back and transferred it into BeerSmith II as closely as I could. The numbers seemed to match pretty well. I just looked and for hops I have it down as 1 oz of Hallertau Mittelfruh @ 4% AA for 90 minutes and 2.5 oz of Strisselspalt @4 AA for 60...

Found a recipe I want to try that calls for 3 oz of Strisselspalt @ 4.0 AA. So far all I keep running into is Strisselspalt pellets - 2016, and closer to 2.0 AA. So my questions are: Isn't 2016 too old for hops? a. If the original AA was only 2.0 in 2016, am I just throwing a bunch of...

HA HA HA HA! You got me beat. Notice the pile of dirt in the driveway with my 4 year old daughter digging? Here's where it's going. Not much chance I'll be repeating your mistake. :yes: :rock: :D The happiest day of my life was when the wife finally said, "Yeah, go ahead and fill it in."

I guess I should have specified MY dumbest mistake. I'm not even going to try to compete with other people for the all time dumbest mistake award.

Oh yeah, I agree. I said it was the "dumbest mistake YET!!!" I didn't say I wasn't going to try and outdo myself.

Yes. And just to set the record straight I wasn't sitting there drinking beer. I was standing there drinking beer at that point.

I just decided to make the switch from bottling to kegging recently. I bought a used 5 gallon corny keg from Offer Up for $45. After buying it I had a lot of concerns and decided it was worth the extra few dollars to buy new just for piece of mind. I decided to save the used one as a secondary...