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Electric is better in some respects, gas is better in others. That comes down to a lot of personal opinion and brewing situation. The fact is though: Electric elements are 100% efficient. All of the heat they produce goes straight into the liquid. Gas is what, 50-60% efficient? I dont...

Go out and buy a 10 gallon paint strainer, or a brew bag. Then you can use the other mash tun, but keep the grains in the bag for BIAB.

Grab a paint strainer bag at home depot/lowes. They are usually $5 for a pack of two or three. I use them a few times then toss them when they get really nasty.

I do chemical logistics for a specialty company. I schedule the bulk trucks, FTL and LTL trucks to come in and pick stuff up and make sure they get to the destination on time and without exploding. HAHA. I also do SAP logistics support and TMS integration. Might sound boring but it is actually...

Im with Chickypad here. You have way too much crystal and dextrines in there. With 11% dextrine, you will have a head that will last forever!! haha. Now if you were doing this because you planned on extracting less sugars from them by steeping, then you might be okay. But as stated above, you...

I constantly get great results with Wyeast 1056 and 1272. I always vorlauf until the wort runs very clear. I batch sparged this one with water at about 90-100*. I make sure to get a large hot break, keep it boiling hard for about 5-10 minutes, then start adding the hops. I add whirlflock in at...

Just wait till you put your fermentation chamber there.. I have all 3 in mine, there is hardly any room left. HAHA.

I have the darkstar burner as well. I also noticed that no matter what I did, there was always a yellow flame. I decided to play with the fuel/air ratio. I found that the darkstar pulls in WAY too much air. I took a piece of electrical tape and covered 1/2 of the air intake. It still allows for...

Pizza I made last night. Dough was made on Monday. Chorizo and fresh sliced tomatoes for toppings. Mostly fresh mozzarella, but i had to use some prepacked (to use it up... fiance bought it). You can really tell a difference when you got a bite of the prepacked!

When I was in Paris a few months ago, my Fiance's professor took us to the asian section of the city. There was a Pho restaurant, called Pho 18 I think? OH MY GOD. It was amazing. I cannot even begin to describe how awesome it was. Fortunately, there is a great Pho place semi-close to me (2.5...

@hotwatermusic, I am loving that crust. What is the hydration you are using?? Sugar/salt/yeast %? Thats the kind of crust I am shooting for! You bake on steel or stone?

Everyone that I know that uses brewpi uses a thermowell. I really hope that you did not try to blow air into your fermentation to get air to move around. Now there is a probe that detects the temp of the chamber, and there is air flow, but you really need not worry about that temperature. I am...

I am with Fuzze here. If you cannot see the advantage of a brewpi over an STC then why are you starting this large project? BTW which can all be done with easier control like manual temperature readings and manually adjusting heating elements. I mean... whats the difference? On a side note, my...

Glycol is great for transferring thermal energy, its dirt cheap and doesn't "vanish" in pipes like water does sometimes. Glycol has been used for a long time in industrial settings for cooling reactors. It is excellent for running in a stainless coil down in the fermenter. There are a lot of...

HAHA, good lord I was about to think they were insane. Didnt even see that it was a .mx site! Good catch. Did you not want to build a glycol system? Use an old A/C and cooler? Some PVC lines and stainless coils and your rockin.

They are really charging $600+ for those OH Drums? You can save a bunch of money by sourcing those yourself, then add the holes and valves. You can get blue 55 gal OH drums from a drum supplier for $30... then a lid for around $15. I actually have around 1,200 of these drums right in front of...

Tried to sift through all of the posts, but there are a lot! I think I might be in a small crowd, but I usually ferment in the primary for about 2 weeks. I generally build a 14 day profile in BrewPi based on the yeast, and continue to use that profile for that yeast. I usually start my ferment...

Do I need to worry about my ferm chamber getting infected, if I decided to put brett in it next time and sticking it in there? I use the same chamber for all of my other brews. I really dont want to have the rest of my brews tainted.

That makes perfect sense Weezy. I left this mash in the coolest part of my apartment while I was on vacation. Since I was gone, I had the air turned to 90*. It was probably like that for most of the day, as it was over 100* almost every day outside. Is this something that can be cleaned up by...

Afternoon ladies and gentlemen. I did my first sour mash about a month ago. It was done with the leftovers from a pale ale. I accidentally left the water I used for chilling the beer (still really hot water btw) in the mash tun, with the grains. Long story short, I boiled down about 10...