Search results

That's the set up exactly with a valve on the output of the pump. I can't imagine how water flow affects wort flow, too, so I'm wondering if it's not defective. The pump works fine, all the camlocks and hoses are 1/2 inch. It all works great until I put the chiller inline.

Oh...per temperature control, I've also had success with just taping the probe so the side of the keg with a folded paper towel over it to reduce influence from the ambient air temperature. No need to modify the keg at all. Kegs come in various sizes and, for fermenters, I use shorter, wider...

Works great for me. I add 10 drops or so of Fermcap to keep the krausen down, transfer the wort from the kettle to the keg, pitch, put on the lid and I use a blowoff tube with a gas connector that runs to a jug with a couple pints of sanitizer in it. I used to remove the poppet in the post and...

I bought a morebeer.com 40 plate chiller (https://www.morebeer.com/products/wort-chiller-40-plate.html) and I can't use it for a few reasons. First, I understand you should pump boiling wort through it to sanitize it but I can just barely do it. If I set the pump output to anything but the...

You didn't mention why it's stuck but being an IPA, I'm guessing it's hops. What's worked for me is to put a siphon in a sanitized stainless hop spider and siphon it to another keg. A hop sock will work, too, but it'll cling to the siphon and need to be removed and cleared several times. Another...

I'd be wary of buying hops that old but, that said, Yakima Valley Hops does a great job with their hops. They're vacuum sealed in nice, resealable bags so they may well be fine. I have bags of hops from them in my freezer that are over a year old and they still smell great when I open the bag...

I have heat and water resistant pants that I SHOULD wear but they're pretty heavy so I just wear them in the winter. In my case it wasn't wort and I've backed into the burner since then, wearing jeans, and walking away with slighty redder skin.

No advice, just congrats on the win! I won a competition this past spring and brewed on a local brewpub's 7 barrel system and had a blast. Even better, it rated above 4 on Untappd and sold out in 3 weeks. Hope you have a great time brewing! Edit: After dumping 11 bins with 70 pounds of grain...

LOL...I'm not the most graceful person and I don't have a lot of space. I've tripped over the gas line, power line for the pump, silicon hoses, kettles, etc. A pro brewer I know had an accident where someone stepped on a hose or something fell on it, I forget exactly, and the hose came loose and...

Brew day last sunday with the wort going into a corny to ferment. That went into the fermentation chamber with a heat belt, temperature probe and blow off tube. "Well that was easy", I thought. When I got home from work the next I checked on the beer and no bubbles...nothing. I flip through...

I have the second one, the oxygenation kit, because of the stainless rod. I know that's going to the bottom of the carboy. A plastic tube may well not make it down there, especially when it's full of O2.

^^^ THIS!! A brewer at Allagash told me "If you like working 28 hours a day 9 days a week and spending 95% of your time cleaning for slave wages, go for it.". That was good enough for me to dismiss the idea entirely. Well, that and a quick read of PA state brewing laws. So that's what I tell...

Sounds good to me! I brew NEIPA style stuff almost exclusively (every now and then I do a Sip of Sunshine or something) and one thing I learned was don't skimp on carbonation. You want all that tropical juiciness to jump out of the glass or bottle.

160 gallons by calculation this year, all but 10 NEIPAs, the other 10 DIPA. = 8995 gallons

This is the fifth year of the beer fest and I look forward to the next one 10 minutes after the current one ends. :-) I thought about entering the homebrew competition but decided against it, opting for stumbling around downtown Lititz for a couple hours over manning a booth.

RO system, IMO. It's SO nice to know what your baseline water is and what your additions will do. And yeah, more kegs so you can do pressurized fermentations and CO2 transfers. Less air is better beer.

I hear ya! I don't think I'd be brewing anymore if I hadn't gone to kegs. I never split a batch between bottles and a keg but I did bottle from a keg for a competition and won overall, so I have to think that's a perfectly viable option. I wasn't even cute about it...I literally held the bottles...

Above. And did you keg or bottle? If you bottled, that's pretty much it. If you kegged you could try adding hops to the serving keg to mask the alcohol. If it has that rocket fuel taste...well, I've poured out a few of those and called it experience.

I'm just east of Neffsville, just south of the Lancaster Airport and totally psyched for the Lititz Beer Fest this weekend. :)

IMO, the best example of a NEIPA is Bissell Brothers' Swish. It's just beautful. Fruity, a little sweet to bring out the hops, low bitterness, very nice feel and pretty fizzy so you can smell it from across the room when you crack open a can. It does seem like everyone is adding a NEIPA to their...