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We play with bigger models down here on the Comanche & Indian Gap Railroad ;) That is a pic of my grandfather on his decapod that he built himself. He built a massive 7.5" gauge, point to point railroad on the ranch starting in 1972 pretty much all by himself. By the early 80s he was...

Papa on decapod

I have been doing sort of a mild really regularly. Probably a gallon every week or 2. I finally just got the stuff to do it in keg sized batches, don't know what took me so long. really simple recipe for 1 gallon: 1lb Maris Otter .33lb carared Mash ~155 20-30 IBUs worth of whatever English...

I picked up a bunch of sterling on sale and have been using it in place of saaz and really like it. If you don't want to try saaz again, give that a go. As for everything else, I haven't really found one I can't stand either. I have been nervous from using simcoe & mosaic getting a lot of cat...

Also, store them out of contact with UV light prevent some off flavors. I have a shelf for my bottled beer that is in a dim area and I throw an old sheet over them.

I use my refractometer religiously...to confirm my hydrometer readings. I trust it 100% on the hot side, but not on the cold side. I have my wort correction factor dialed in for it and use the calculators available to adjust on the cold side, but I still never feel good about it until the...

Agree that your beer should be fine. I have a fastferment also I have used a couple of adapters to go from the fastferment to the liquid post on the keg. It's fun to do it that way, but really there is probably no difference between that way and what you did, other than peace of mind (though...

Aeration is not critical in making beer, but it is very important in making good & repeatable beer. This becomes even more true if you are reusing yeast as the yeast from the oxygenated brew will finish much healthier than if not. I made a lot of drinkable beer with no aeration before I got...

+10 gallons "clean out the freezer" lager 889

Simcoe does that for me for sure, moreso in a young beer. I really like simcoe, but it makes me pretty nervous when sampling during fermentation. I find that the "bad" part goes away after a week or so and it also smooths out well with other hops, but man it can be bad. Fuggles is one of my...

I am a fan of Boston Lager, but not many of their other brews. Some of the best beers I ever had in my life were from the tasting room on that brewery tour though. Man, I want to go back to Boston just for that.

Cool. How did you go about the kettle sour? Monitor PH or go by taste?

Thanks, hope it works well. When 15 minutes hit, I had those 4 hops out with some lager yeast and a ton of simcoe and mosaic out with some ale yeast. eenie meenie miney moe...

I'd do Cold Brew Coffee, Soda/sparkling water, Beer with a 3 tap setup. That is why I have a 5 tap minimum when I upgrade from my single, lol.

I'm not sure I 100% understand your setup, but it sounds feasible if I have it right. You have a temp controller on the aquarium heater? Put the bucket in an insulated cooler, fill it with water, and have the heater keep the water at 35*? I'd test it overnight with just water in the cooler...

J2W2, I just read the rest of your post regarding the hops. I would still suggest bittering with the simcoe, but swap what I said above for the hops in your IPA. Whatever you did dryhopped, split it in half and do half at flameout and half dryhopped. I don't have any experience with ahtanum...

I would recommend going with the bug instead of the additive to get a much better flavor. If you do the kettle sour in your actual boil kettle, you won't have anything to worry about since you are going to boil the crap out of it anyway. I had a sixer of this a few weeks ago, from memory, this...

The thing to watch out for if using a freezer is how/where you are measuring the temp. For lagering/cold crashing, have the probe measuring ambient air of the freezer, not the temp of the beer itself. If you go off of beer temp, the freezer will cool your ambient air to -20 before the beer...