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Welcome to the thread and forum! Me and Surume split a bag of English ale malt in the spring. He ordered it so I am not sure what difficulties he had if any. I believe he ordered to a domestic address. Heads up that the crushed malt we received was quite finely crushed, lots of powder. It...

No worries, glad someone got something out of this thread! I picked up the info from various other forums in the past and I wish I could give credit to whoever had listed the specs of the resistor.

Yeah ebay wasn't an option for me at the time so thats why the alternative build. I still have 19 more thermistors for the price of one from ebay, but the added work of soldering and putting waterproof casing is not really worth it if you only want a single probe. I hope to have several someday.

Well, I haven't used them in brewing yet but I have the STC-1000 keeping my chili seedlings at a toasty temp all the time. I have confirmed the temp readings are pretty accurate compared to my handheld digital thermometer, they read within a degree of each other. I have not focused to much...

-Lemon, raspberry, cherry sour beers -Ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, anise, licorice - spicy beers -Orange cream, blackberry, chocolate, more savory-sweet -Caramel, strawberry, bubblegum, - sweet as I can see that dessert beers can be interpreted as a wide range of styles. Not reduced to only...

-Lemon, raspberry, cherry sour beers -Ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, anise, licorice - spicy beers -Orange cream, blackberry, chocolate, more savory-sweet -Caramel, strawberry, bubblegum, - sweet as I can see that dessert beers can be interpreted as a wide range of styles. Not reduced to only...

Have you seen the recent posts from Baird's new brewery build? It is going along nicely from the looks of things! Someday we should all meet up there if we can manage to get a tour :D

Welcome! Guzzibrew- Your resourcefulness is pretty awesome, you turned that coffeemaker over for profit AND got all the parts you wanted and more!:rockin: If anyone is in Yokohama tonight, Me and Drifting79 are going to be having a few beers at Antenna America from around 6pm.:mug:

I used multiple bags and stirred them around fairly often since I could not find any bags big enough for my 50L pot. I think small bags were OK if you leave lots of space in them for moving the grain - I wouldn't fill more than half of each bag, the grain swells as it absorbs water and moves...

Guzzibrew, I am good for kegs now, I lucked out as Baird Brewing unloaded 50+ cornies onto the HB community mostly near Tokyo. I don't have gas or regulator yet or freezer/kegerator yet so gathering more kegs would probably be just greedy on my part. I will still get the assessment on the...

It occured to me while at work the other night, the stainless flat pan I was using was bought at Daiso. It has about 2 cm depth to the lip, and maybe it would take 2 to fill the bottom of my mash tun. All I need to do to make it into a false bottom is drill/punch a ton of holes in it. Not...

I had the same beef with individual wrapped parts, how the f@#! do I test the thread fit properly? I dont trust my eyes to say "yeah thats the same thread"... I see a section in my local hardware store that holds the punched steel, and other sheets of various materials like copper or aluminum...

For gasket material that is food grade silicone take a look at the baking section of any Daiso or 100 yen shop. You should find some silicone baking pans with uniform thickness of rubber that would be suitable for mashing and probably boiling temps. * I have not tried this* but I don't see any...

Guzzibrew I may have some rhizomes available and will post around Feb or early March when I check their viability. I cut quite a few this past spring and stunted my plants a bit so this year I will cut a little less. Hopefully other people in here have had success establishing their plants. I...

Fencdar I would suggest if you are a customer of Advanced brewing to sign up for their mailing list club. When they organize a get-together (seems to be two or more times a year) a lot of people come out of the woodwork. There are more Japanese brewers than foreigners at those events but we...

I used a cooler with a drain port built in to the bottom, and just drilled a hole through the cap of that for a barbed connector. Then I threaded silicone tubing up through the hole, fit it onto the barbs and pushed the barb back through the hole. It is a pressure fit seal that way, and I can...

As far as commercial style (not cornelius) kegs go, there is a mix here in Japan for fittings. American (and Canadian) kegs usually use a sanke valve for the connection. Here is a link for easy ID of valve types http://www.kegworld.com/keg-valve.htm I had brought a Japanese 15 liter keg...

Welcome to the thread! The Okinawa brewing enthusiasts are the ones closest to you I think, and many are military as well as far as I know. They have a group on FaceBook I think you can message them there to get added if you are on FB as well. I don't know how cool it gets there but right...

Thats one of the other things about BIAB that I like, efficiency is usually pretty good. If you could dunk it into another pot with hot water you could probably get a small beer out of a "second sparge", although i dont know what style you would call it.

EOD You are the first that I know of to post from as far north as Misawa! I had to look up where that was, and then of course I had to check the climate. Lucky you! You just need a heat pad and you are set all year! Hope you find some people to brew with up there even if it means converting...