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30 minutes? I have an el cheap 55k BTU burner and it's never taken more than 10 minutes to get a full boil...

The walmart ones are probably around 55,000 BTU's. I have a similar one and it does the job fine, full rolling boil of 5 gallons in a little over 5 minutes.

Ya know, the video is absolutely hilarious, but I really think that if you've never done mashing and don't know what's involved, I still say it's really good to see it being done. It gives you the big picture of what's involved without overwhelming. And it's amusing.

I can't say for sure, but bet 99% sure that it won't.

The stupid 'Beer at Brian's' videos currently mentioned in this forum, while not exactly 100% the best way to do things, do give a pretty good overview of the mashing process. Don't take the process as the best way to do it, but if you watch it all as a good overview of what's involved in...

50 lbs of corn sugar, you don't need that much. Corn sugar is only used for priming the beer for bottling, and that takes a small amount. The grape and granary has 50 lbs of DME for $114 at http://www.thegrape.net/browse.cfm/2,1501.html shipping is always a factor. I personally buy LME in...

Glad to see you like good beer, I was worried that natty light was what you wanted to brew, and that's a losing proposition. LME = Liquid Malt Extract DME = Dried Malt Extract They are the exact same thing, only DME (powder) has had all the water removed whereas LME (syrup) still has some...

Not density so much as it is fermentable sugar. The density is just a way of measure the amount of sugar in the wort. Also, corn sugar is primarily used for carbonating bottles. During fermentation it can give some off flavors. If you want to boost alcohol content cheaply without increasing...

It's yeast dependent, and you should be able to look up the yeast you are using to find the optimal ferment temperature. In general 68-72 degrees for an ale, around 50 degrees for a lager. There are oddballs though, like wyeast california common which is a lager yeast that can go to the mid...

I'm going out on a limb here, but I'm willing to bet that oxi clean is in fact a sanitizer. The active ingredient is Sodium Percarbonate which breaks down into hydrogen peroxide in water. Hydrogen Peroxide is a sanitizer, in fact has been approved as one by the FDA. I'm 99% sure that Sodium...

If you're wanting to formulate recipes, you can buy promash/beertools/etc, download the free qbrew software (http://www.usermode.org/code.html), or use the online calculators at tastybrew (http://www.tastybrew.com/calculators/). Or alternatively you could do the calculations by hand, but that's...

I like the oatmeal stout, not exceptional but pretty good for the price. Around here they run $6.99. Honker's ale is pretty good to. They're local to my region but we don't get a lot of variety of their beers, usually all I can find is the honker's ale and oatmeal stout. If you see there bourbon...

I don't mind malty, plus this is going to be a bit hoppier than the average APA, so I think the extra malt will be good to balance it out. I'm aiming for 50-60 IBU's.

I did 8 oz of cocoa powder for my chocolate oatmeal stout, added it the last 10 minutes of the boil. I also added 2 oz of vanilla extract before kegging it, and a total of about 1 lb of lactose. Unfortunately I think it got a little infected or I did something wrong, since it has a slightly...

I love imperial half pints. I only have one, got it at a local tavern with a beer of the month special, $6 for the glass full of franziskaner heffe-weiss dunkel. One of my favorite glasses :)

The regulator is right. Since the cold tank has less pressure in it, the regulator will need to be readjusted. Think of it like a garden hose hooked up to a hand sprayer. If you adjust the sprayer to the desired flow with the water turned on fully, and then you turn down the water pressure at...

I'm planning on a rectangular, because I have one :)

I doubt sending you more yeast will help, dry yeast is pretty hardy and it's unlikely the yeast is the problem. One factor is that lagering occurs at cold temperatures, so everything takes longer. A lager could need to ferment for a month instead of a week, depending on the yeast and the...

Does anyone know how long star san remains an effective sanitizer after it's been mixed up with water? We use a lot of small batches for sanitizing hydometers, spoons, etc and it would save money to just keep a batch of star san mixed up in a pitcher or something and reuse it for these things...

Actually, my post was about brewbyyou.com (Mt Washington Homebrew Supply) and the other one is about brewbyu.com (Hops & Dreams Homebrew)...