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perhaps you could pack them very snuggly?

Yeah, its analog. Ok, I see...thanks for the info guys :mug:

Ah I see, so there's constantly going to be an energy trade off between the lower compartment and the upper compartment(freezer). Though, if it is a fridge with a manual defrost (one that builds up layers of ice), it may have the ability to stay frozen and keep things frozen... I'm going to...

A good way to keep your mind at ease while waiting for your brew to be done is to start working on another recipe. Come up with something creative that you need to study to make. When I start creating a recipe of a particular style, I go through a lengthy process of analyzing and changing. By...

Keep things frozen! ;)

Yeah, perhaps I need to play around with the settings until I get the fridge freezing...

So I got a temp control unit about a week ago and put it on its coldest setting. But, before I get into it, let me set you up. This fridge could easily be 15 years old. It has a number system 1 being the warmest, 9 being the coldest. But then has a letter system right next to it with strange...

I don't understand the guessing game...does your PF not have gallon lines on the side? Sounds like your doing a full volume boil but correct me if I'm wrong. I've never heard of adding water to the secondary...I don't think so...sounds raunchy... I've only heard of bitterness and harshness...

Aerate is a fancy term to adding oxygen. Yeast needs oxygen to live so that it can eat the sugar which in turn produces alcohol (and carbonation when needed). You don't need fancy equipment, though, it is out there for purchase but definitely not needed. When your pouring your wort in your...

Many people on this forum work in the Air Force or Navy. Pure coincidence? Is there something about being in the military that facilitates a passion for beer brewing? Has anyone asked this before?

Jack Black totally rocks man. Tenacious D is as sweet as it gets. "Kielbasa sausage, your butt cheeks is warm. Now I feel so loose-a, I'm shootin' my juice-a, right in your kaboos-a, Now ****in get it on!" I could keep goin' and goin'. Anyways, Nacho Libre--definitely. My girlfriend...

That wouldn't make beer. Use all malt extract or mostly malt extract with a couple pounds of honey. I have never used honey but many brewers on this forum use it to lighten the body. If you search for it, you will find more info. If you decide to try your "sugar method", let us know how...

Right now I'm drinking a beer called The Tanner's Jack made by Morland, an English brewing co. The back says: "The Tanner's Jack is a flavoursome and well-hopped ale brewed to celecrate an 18th century tradition of drinking fine ales from leather tankards called black jacks or simply...

I would say the problem is right there. Did you use the amount of ingredients for a 5 gallon recipe and do only 3.7 gallons? Imagine if you had added 1.3 gallons of water to it. Most likely it would have diluted it to the specific maltiness you were looking for. If this is so, the outcome is...

I dont know, I would have to run it through recipator again. Should have saved it, oh well. Off to work :(

Actually mine is slightly similar. Those kinds of hops were my original intention. I'm basing my hop additions off what I have in store. I'm using 1oz tettnanger at 3.5% for 60min 1oz Saaz @ 3.3% for 60 min 1oz Saaz @ 3.3% for 30 min I would use hallertauer but I have Saaz and Saaz...

Yeah, I agree, it should be boil volume or is boil volume in glibbidy's spreadsheet because he calculated mine based off of 2.7 gals and .5oz Perle and got ~28 IBUs and it is ~half of your recipator calculation which is 5 gal and 1 oz of Perle which means you would get roughly the same IBUs...I...

Yeah, if I were to end up using Perle, thats most likely all I would really want to put in it. I find Perle to be pretty harsh if not balanced. Would you have to lower the target IBUs for 60min hops if you were going to also do 30min hops? Then add the results

cweston: I took all that into account. I did that with my book and found out I need to use the rager method. Thanks for the idea! I don't think I would have ever thought of that. glibbidy: Ok, that makes more sense. I'll give it a whirl but most likely I'll stick to recipator. My final batch...

:drunk: The whole time I haven't been paying attention to Tinseth or Rager..I ran a couple of recipes from Brewmaster's Bible and found out I need to be using Rager...theres usually a 10IBU difference! I'm curious to know why but I don't need to know. Thanks for bearing with my stupidity :o...