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BTW, its not something everyone agrees on but my go-to grain bag is a couple of laundry bags from Daiso. They list the ingredients on them so you can check that it is made of plastic that is safe up to 130 C or more. They are as food grade as any other I am guessing, but wash them in hot or...

I have seen these but never tried one for kerosene or wort. How much are they? First thing to check is if it can be effectively cleaned and sanitized, if so, then is it food grade? If it passes those questions, then will it handle hot liquids up to 100C? Can it run for a fairly long time...

So far things look good on my first batch since the switch. Compared to previous batches, the hot break was thick, when I drained to the primary I splashed the wort in over about 30 minutes, and it created enough foam to reach the top of the fermenter, and there was a good krausen and blowoff...

I used just the strainer over top of my braided hose filter, no steel. I am only doing 5 gallon batches though. The strainer compacted down but still had enough support to keep all the big stuff off the filter. I even used it with a recipe using oatmeal and rye flour with no problems. For...

I have been trying out hop teas lately. A half gram of pellets with boiling water for 4 minutes is a very bitter cup of tea. 1 minute is drinkable and quite nice. I did a cold brew of a full gram of pellets for 2 hours, and I would say the bitterness was equivalent to the 1 minute hot tea...

I had about 100ml of washed yeast from a brew a month ago sitting in the fridge. S-05 strain. I made 500ml of DME wort for it split into two jars, and woke it up while I was brewing. By the time I was done chilling the yeast starter was bubbling away with a krausen! Way faster than I...

Welcome and congrats on your first brew! Thanks for pointing out the Amazon bit as well, I thought that was them that occasionally showed up on searches. I think with Amazon and Rakuten and similar sites you find they take a cut for the hosting of the products. I usually switch between...

Haha, sorry I suppose coming from Canada it seemed like a lot. I was seeing quite a few stacked outside restaurants at times when I wrote that though. I don't really think they are being used for beer so perhaps soda companies are still using them? I never looked into it. If you have a safe...

Thanks Castlehollow, esp the info on the grubs. The obasans around here mentioned little white mushi (insects) are common in the donguri (acorns). I don't know the tree species I am dealing with so I think this year I will skip the experiment. Glad your beer turned out good and I will revisit...

Spent the day up the mountains in Hayama today and saw tons of acorns which I decided to scoop up and take home. Acorns are starch right, so a beer ingredient was my thought. OK now I have read the threads and lots of hypothetical processing that I am not sure I want to go through with. I...

Hi guys, I use bleach/vinegar solution for sanitizing as per Charlie Tally's (starsan inventor) no-rinse recipe. I do this because it is the cheapest and most accessible no rinse sanitizer available to me in Japan. I had a bit of a language barrier on my bleach purchases though, I can read...

Update to the list of sanitizers and cleaners listed at the start of this thread: ***UPDATE*** Bleach is packaged color coded in kitchen and laundry variations for Japan. The kitchen version is in a green bottle with a pink cap, laundry type in a blue bottle with dark blue cap. I had always...

Oh sweet, if you reverse polarity on a peltier device the cooling side becomes the heating side and vice versa! You could use these things to warm and cool! All of a sudden I am browsing through lot prices for the plates on Aliexpress and trying to figure out how to make my own version of an...

Nice setup! I have been holding off getting a freezer but the summers are downright impossible to brew in without something actively cooling. I have never heard of an ice probe until just now, going to do some Googling and find out more! - - - This might take a while now that I am on...

Nice! I'd love to brew with that!

Tomorrow's brew has a theme. It's gaikoku grains. Corn, Oats, Wheat, Barley, and Rye! Recipe: Gaikokumugi Pale Ale Brewer: Brendan Asst Brewer: Style: American Pale Ale TYPE: All Grain Taste: (30.0) Recipe Specifications -------------------------- Boil Size: 19.10 l Post Boil...

I just set up my chromed shelf but dont have a burner yet so its simply going to be used for gravity feeding the mash tun and then the wort to the kettle. I will still boil on the stovetop for now. I want to get a burner, and put it on the lower shelf. My biggest concern though is the shelves...

I have made several Falconers 7Cs brews this past year. Got a kilo (about 2 pounds) from a small brewery for 25 bucks (language barrier, I thought he would only sell by the kilo due to his pricing sheet) My favorite was a BIAB "minimum" IPA, targeting the lowest end of the style for bitterness...

How'd everyone fare with this extreme weather? I hope everyone is OK there were like half a million people evacuated for typhoon 18! Hops in my yard are now overgrown with hyoutan, bottle gourd plants are up to 12 meters long. The hops are fine under them, but I am done harvesting anything now.

Best thing to do it identify what plants you want to use, write their latin name down and bring that to the nursery. There is no confusion when using latin names, and if they don't have it they may be able to order it for you. Im thinking of getting some of these into my garden now that you...