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That's close to what I put into my 5 gallon and it also was to the top. Maybe since I had corn and rice.. Mine absorbed more. Because I think I was at like under 2 gallons after my 90 minute mash. I was high on my OG and I tried the iodine test for the first time. It looks like I got a good...

So I am getting into the bulk hops side of brewing. I ordered 2 pounds of hops. Figure ill order 2 pounds every few weeks. So my wife says what did you order from hopsdirect for $310 as she's checking the bank account on the laptop. I worked a ton Of overtime so I ordered bunch of...

I thought I had it calculated correctly. But I was wrong again. I did hit the temp this time around. Looking at the link posted above, I think I read it wrong. I think I read it as put in 3.5 gallons. but I think it is telling me that the grain will take up 3.5 gallons. (I made the 7...

How many pounds of grain before you move to the 10 gallon? Made a 11 lbs mash yesterday, thought the 5 gallon would be plenty. big under estimate. I'm still having trouble doing an accurate mash schedule. I have beer tools, beersmith and checkd an online site and I still jAcked it up...

My club had a post holiday Party a few weeks back. I won a $50 gift cars from Williams brewing. So I just bought it. I did put a lot of thought into building one. But figured I didn't want to mess something up. So I used my stirplate and first starter Today. Had the wife help while at work...

Maybe it was defective to begin with. I've filled and left mine full Fr weeks at a time. And also know others that use them for salt water.

Ok got all the final pieces to my system. At a brew pub for my club meeting now. Hopefully I'm not to tipsy or lazy to get it going tonight.

I think I got it. There's 3 techniques we've been discussing. I think I'm just screwing the name of each. 1.) starter for yeast. Yeast, Flask, dme and water to kick start and grow the volume of active yeast. 2.) harvesting yeast from microbrewery bottles. Sixer of desired style to get...

Ahh I'm catching what your throwing. the first batch or 2 I will use purchased viles. when I have time to Harvest microbrewery yeast. Would I just Buy a sixer of a similar beer and make it from that?

How many flasks does the typical yeast farmer use? From the sounds of it I would start with just 1. Maybe a second for back up or if I'm going to do a double batch.

Thanks. Yes I plan to start a yeast farm. I've been reading a lot on that. But then today I thought. Wait I need to actaully do it... And I choaked and forgot everything I read. I plan on starting with the starter today with some wyeast american for the cream of 3 crops beer. Then...

so I got my stir plate and picking up some yeast and a flask tonight. I want to make sure I got the process down pat. So I add the water yeast and dme into The flask. what speed should I Have my stir plate set at? Just leave it spinning until I'm ready to use it? 36 hours or so...

nice work. Besides the team it looks kick ASS.haha

my club has a CFC with a inline temp guage and you adjust the speed of the water, and you can get perfect temp.

Wouldn't he need his kegging equipment to prime it?

Is it smoking or less picky with the flavor and happy with the results of the brew?

14 years prototype designer. Due to lack of new cars being designed currently. I am designing solar power engines.

I'm a hockey player and my skates get an unexplainable smell. My wife won't let me bring them in the house... Long story short I sprayed them with a light bleach water mix. Less than 10%. let them dry and did it again and the funk was gone. They smell like bleach after my first few games. But...

ok cool. thanks! just need a scale and one of these i can start my hop storage.

I seen someone mention that they use mason jars with their vac sealer.(edit: for hops) and pointed out that they use the below item. Do you need 1 lid for each mason jar? or does this connect to the jar and seal the lid? meaning you buy one and use it over and over just need new lids...