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Hey, all. hopefully i can stop bugging y'all on this topic soon but i just had a quick question on materials for building a heat stick. http://www.3d0g.net/brewing/heatstick suggests that i use a 12" chrome drain pipe. Chrome seems to be hard to find and i was wondering if it's just an...

le cry. i am seriously at a loss. i can't use propane and have 20 amps to work with. i just may need to buy beer for the next 18months till i can get a new place to live. perhaps i can bring half of it to a boil in my kitchen and run it down to the garage after? then i'd have 2 heat sources...

Alright. Since propane is outa the question at my new rental house I've been trying to think of a good alternative for boiling in my garage. what i came up with is basically using the design for a heat stick from http://http://hbd.org/pcalinsk/HeatStk3.htm but instead of a 120V 1440Watt heating...

Alright. Since propane is outa the question at my new rental house I've been trying to think of a good alternative for boiling in my garage. what i came up with is basically using the design for a heat stick from http://http://hbd.org/pcalinsk/HeatStk3.htm but instead of a 120V 1440Watt heating...

that is precisely the link i needed! thanks much, man!

hrmmm i've seen mention before of just such a heating element. the one i saw only ran 12amps. you guys think i should build a 20amp instead?

Been poking around in the e-brew section before work but i didn't see any tutorials on constructing a brew heater (i very well could just be blind). Does any helpful person out there have a link to a thread or web page where i can get the basic construction tutorial so i can construct one of these?

Hey, guys. I just moved into a new house with some friends and received the garage as a designated brewing dungeon! I'm trying to set up a stove of some kind in there for boiling but am having a couple problems. The lease we're in doesn't let us store flammables at the house which means propane...

i long ago took off the cap on my auto-siphon and now it won't go back on so i'm already working with the ideal setup!! ;)

thanks for the advice, pj. I have been much happier with my beer since i switched to 4 week primarys (partly because the flavor is more what i'm shooting for and partly 'cause it keeps the beer outa my greedy mouth longer ;) ) and this method seems like a really good way to have my cake and eat...

hrmmmm i might just knock my old schedual down from 4 weeks to 3 weeks and pitch the 3 week old yeast in higher quantity after that. i had a sneaking suspicion the time on the yeast cake itself was what was making my beer taste better than they had when i was fermenting for shorter times in...

right :D i mean after fermentation basically. hopefully i'll be seeing those times reduce once i'm pitching at the right rate though

I'm a little question maniac lately:( I've just been doing a lot of reading to fine-tune everything and keep running across things i need to understand better. As has been discussed quite a bit around here, i don't think that using a secondary is really necessary unless you're doing additions of...

thanks for the advice. clears up quite a bit of confusion for me. In my previous extract endeavors, I'd really just used flaked oats as a source of body, mouth-feel, and head retention...i forgot in AG i actually can start using them as fermentable sugar as well :cross: Hopefully i get all my...

Hey, guys. I'm amping up to try out my first AG brew and ran across a question as i was reading Designing great Beers by Ray Daniels. In the section discussing water ph adjustments it mentioned that specialty malts such as crystal roasted ect. often reduce the mash ph to acceptable levels if...

Hey, all! Just a quick question on lautering. In the literature I've been reading it is saying that i should transfer the mash from my mash-tun into my lauter-tun and sparge afterward. I'll be running an igloo cooler with a false bottom and was wondering if it's acceptable practice to lauter...

I know it's kind of an old thread but, if anyone's still working on cloning this guy, just thought i'd add that i was out at their brewery yesterday and when i read their info on Abyss, it also said they used some brewers licorice, vanilla bean, and cherry bark in the recipe. if anyone works out...

my bad :) i meant acetylaldehyde which i guess nobody said would go away in a few days. I'm gonna start something new to get me to stop thinking about the two I'm waiting on. something new to obsess about is a good thing for me :)

hmmmmm. if diacetyl tends to get cleaned up within a few days of reaching FG then perhaps i miss-diagnosed the off flavor. porter was bottled after 14 days but has been sitting for a week so maybe it's something else. inoticed a slight bit of charring on my brewpot after the boiling of the wort...

I didn't intend to say that i was trying to get it off of the yeast (although i've started up on that thread you linked and there's some GREAT info in there). I was actually concerned that i might have too little yeast at this point to take care of the acetylaldehyde situation since i pulled it...