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tnlandsailor, do you have any problems with a shallow grain bed and lack of filtration when doing five gallon batches in a 48qt cooler? I would imagine your grain bed is three to four inches in depth only. I have read that six inches should be a minimum with up to a foot of depth being even...

Steam injection I have just purchased a pressure cooker and intend on experimenting with it for temperature control in my cooler. I don't know if I will go to step mashing with it but it is possible with this system. Right now I plan on using it only to maintain the temperatures of the mash...

I havent done it but it should be fine. There are suppliers who will sell you liquid wort which is essentially the same as what you would produce the first day and finish the next. The boil process will take care of anything that may get in between wort production and brew day. Unless there...

After inquiring about what I was doing, my pizza delivery guy has come to love my home brew. I wonder if I can get a job as cool as his... driving around in an old convertable and drinking on the job! Of course I only let him have one since he is driving...

The inch of water above the grain bed is to ensure there is enough water to keep the grains suspended in the liquid so they will not compact and clog any manifolds used to drain the wort from the lauter tun. In your case, you essentially have a 'strainer'. What you are wanting to do sounds just...

In the process of making an ESB yesterday, I noticed my last ounce of hops addition sitting on the counter as my wort was cooling past 120f. This addition was supposed to be made at flame off but instead of grabbing the hops, I grabbed another beer from the fridge and forgot what I had gone in...

Don't use the twist off bottles! Besides buying empties you could drink alot of pop top beers between now and tomorrow but that may be a bit much... I have read where people have used two liter cola bottles but I would not say this is an ideal answer. The two liter bottles would at least seal...

The brew kettles I usually see for sale have them mounted closer to the bottom.

Scale:http://www.morebeer.com/product.html?product_id=18672 I got this one and its great. Would have to do a couple of weighs to get the grains since it only goes up to six pounds or so but it works great for small stuff like hops. Measuring out quarter ounces of hops and such is no problem...

With all the talk of getting even flow through the grain bed during sparging, has anyone experimented with altering the number of slots per inch in the tubes as you get further away from the drain? It would sure seem that the slots in the tube nearest the drain of the manifold would have much...

One of my regulars is a vanilla cream ale. Three ounces of vanilla extract (not imitation - though it may work, I just have used the real stuff) added to the bottling bucket (in addition to the priming sugars) for a five gallon batch has done great for me. You can definitely taste the vanilla...

I think you will find many DO save yeast. At a cost of five to six dollars a pop, this is an incredible way to lower the cost of brewing. I have had great success with it and have done it rather simply with no butane burners or cultivating kits. I just shake up and rack the yeast from the...

I don't think you will find that argument on this site. Aeration of the wort is a positive for yeast to get a good start. Prior to pitching, oxygen introduction by shaking or air stones with air pumps or oxygen bottles is common. The only time this could be bad is if the wort is still hot but...

Liquid costs just a slight bit less than dry if you buy the cans but if you buy liquid in bulk it is a good bit cheaper. The bulk liquid does not have much of a shelf life and this is what leads me to dry. The reasons mentioned above are also true and lead to my decision but the storability is...

I had a shipment sent to Tennessee from morebeer and it took a week to get here. This was just recently so the temps were way up there for its travel. It was not shipped with an ice pack and I think that would have been futile anyhow with this lengthy journey. I made a starter and it was...

After playing with pro-mash and one of the links someone left above, I believe almost one gallon of what I am losing is due to the steeping of grains. I had not considered this to be such a large factor but apparently it is much more so than I had thought. Thanks for all the input!

I usually boil 10 mins prior to starting my hop adds and typical 60 minute timer (total boil of 70min). I have been losing about 2 to 2.25 gallons during this time. Has anyone else had these high evaporation rates? I do extract and steep the grains in 5 gal of water followed by a 1gal sparge...

I would agree with tnlandsailor on this one. Perhaps they had some corrosion on their chiller which caused their problem but this corrosion wouldnt be typical. Maybe they left it lying around for a long time and didn't clean it thoroughly before using it or maybe it got something on it but for...

I would hate to be the one to say this is o.k. and then something bad happen to you so I will just state some facts... There are propane powered heaters that are made for indoor use. These are commonly found in car mechanic garages. Many houses have propane tanks which serve to heat the home...

Did you not post the place you ordered it from or did I just miss that? Also, looks like the turtle mouth is a bottle opener?