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I picked up a STC-1000 unit controller on eBay for <$25 - as 241 said, being able to set it and walk away for a couple weeks without worry is a really good thing. Wiring the thing up is a snap and there are good instructions/diagrams on HBT on how to do it. As for Celcius - I just printed up a...

Thanks Pelipen.

I'd add 4 oz. I did 3 oz in secondary to a 6 gal batch of stout and thought it could have used a bit more cocoa. Yes, I used plain, cheap vodka - just enough to cover the nibs (to kill any buggies.)

I soak them in vodka for a couple of days and add to secondary. There may be better ways but it works for me.

Merry Christmas sir! Whatcha brewing?

Awesome - thanks and you too. ¡Feliz Navidad senor! As I often say on the Playstation Network in my high school Spanish from 20 years ago "Mi traje de bano es muy guapo, y el jamon es en la biblioteca." Merry Christmas and welcome to HBT.

I had been using Rooftopbrewing brewhouse efficiency calculator in the past and really liked it, but it seems to have disappeared from the site. Are there any online calculators that you guys like to use for this? I've tried a few others and none of the ones I found weren't as easy to use as...

Beersmith. For me that thing crashes more than Billy Joel.

Bobby Brown Goes Down - Frank Zappa

Thanks both of you for the responses. I have been factoring in volume into the calculations. I've been getting very low 80%s consistently since changing my crush to .037" - which was a better improvement than I had expected since reducing from the factory gap (and a very slow batch sparge.)...

The local bottle shop around here got 53 bricks to be sold at 5:00 PM. By 4:00 the line was easily 150 deep. I was amongst the folks towards the head of the line and had a good time losing feeling in toes due to the cold but also meeting some seriously cool people.

Hi all - I'm looking for a sanity check here on what I'm doing to determine my efficiency. My process right now is this: 1.) Mash and sparge. Upon completion of sparge, gently stir the wort and take a sample from the brewpot. 2.) Reduce sample temperature to somewhere in the 80* area (my...

I thought the same...then I drilled my first fridge and got the hiss of the "hey you just bought a new paperweight" sound. Damn those lines were right under the skin sheet metak. I'll never drill a fridge (or wear a lifejacket) again.

Hmmm...the closest thing I can think of is those 16.9 oz (I think) bottles that have that same elegant taper to the neck, but those may be too big for your needs. I was wondering if these metric bottles would work with the caps used in the US. It happens that I just now finished a 11.2 oz...

The recipe seems to have changed significantly since early batches (not for the better) Folks at one of the local bottle shops think that it was changed due to criticism that the beer was (allegedly) a rip-off of the Pliny recipe. I don't know if that's conspiracy theory stuff, but the beer...

Awesome!!! Being a Dad is the best and most rewarding job ever. Congratulations sir!

Did you stir before taking the hydrometer sample?

Nevermind - I found the new recipe online - no Citra to be found: 12.5 lb two row 12 oz 15L 1.75 oz Columbus at -90 1.0 oz Centennial at 0 2.5 oz Centennial dry hop

I bought Mitch Steele's new book on IPAs. The recipe in there is pretty much the same as the one Yooper has but (as others have reported) using Columbus at the start of a 90 minute boil and Centennial in whirlpool and dry hopping. I had heard that there was a recipe in a recent Zymurgy that...

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone here has seen/could post the new recipe that Mitch made public recently (I read that Columbus and Citra are now used.) If anyone has it could they please post it? I brewed Yoopers' recipe several months back and it was fantastic - I'd like to see how the new...