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The mesh on my dehydrator is much too large to hold grain, all I did was cut a single ply of stainless steel screen to fit onto the dehydrator trays. Worked surprisingly well.

Here is the malt after smoking. Notice the coloration. I'm not certain if that is strictly from the smoke, or if some browning of the malt occurred from heat. I smoked around 180F, so I shouldn't expect too much browning, but perhaps it's possible. To save my kitchen, I purchased a food...

The moment i submitted that original post, I knew you would be on me about the makeup of the grain bill. To get ahead of you, I went the same route as yourself: half pils, half white wheat, 3 pounds of each. Smoked with beech pellets. I didn't seem to have the same struggle you did with...

After thinking a little more, it may have been the previous issue of BYO, the issue with the grodziskie article....

Is it the smoked beer book that is linked at the beginning of this thread that recommends adjusting mash ph above 5.6 to limit mash conversion, thereby reducing fermentable sugars?

Funny, I've seen this thread title on the front page for a long time, but I always thought it was about food, so I had never read it.... Tomorrow, I'm going to give smoking malt a shot. I intend to smoke roughly 7 pounds of Belgian pilsner (i'll decide exactly how much when the time comes). The...

Edit: nevermind, I think I can simply attach it to this thread directly.

Is there decent file hosting service that is normally used for this website, that I can link to? Per Day_trippr's initial request, I wrote out the analytical solution as a locally installed executable, but I have to admit I'm not sure of the best way to distribute it. Can anyone point me to a...

Fell off the face of the earth on this website for while, but sorry boys, I'm back. To your point here, yes, the liquid line that is not fully charged will be pressurized, that is due to the vapor pressure of the refrigerant, and the closed state of the conduit carrying the refrigerant. Punch a...

Can you elaborate on the verb 'throttling'? Fluid flow does not need to fill a pipe to experience friction and turbulent losses in energy. If the pipe is not full, you are simply swapping out the Darcy-Weisbach solution with the Manning-Gaucker formula for energy loss. If the pipe is not full...

Count me as one who doesn't. What is a 'choker', is it some sort of piping reduction? Is it a flow controller? How does that address what you have quoted? My argument was that I expected many to not have a mechanism to fully control the flow rate. Are you telling me that this is an incorrect...

Not sure I follow this argument. My issue is that folk seem to preach Mike's answer as the gospel, that it is THE solution to the serving tubing question. I am simply offering a viewpoint as an addendum to his approach, and showing that his method does not fully consider the interactions within...

I finally got around to posting the info, the thread is here, if any are interested. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/critique-of-mike-soltys-hose-length-calculator.652483/ Best,

Per the request of several active members of the HBT kegging forums, I have upload a derivation of the proper analysis of hose length, as a dissenting opinion to Mike Soltys calculator (for reference, here is a link to Mike's calculator)...

My saison strategy hasn't changed for a long time, 50% Belgian pils, 50% while wheat, and acilidated for the mash. Ferment at 64F. I shoot for about 3.5% ABV. I am honestly not sure what strain I am currently using, because I pulled it from a bottle of agrarian field bier, but if I had to...

I don't have a webcam, otherwise I would be more than happy to post a video explaining the derivation. It's all simple first year engineering fluids work, I'm really not sure how Mike missed what he did. Would you be interested in me posting a complete derivation with explanation as a paper...

Sorry to necro this thread, but it needs to be said. It's clear to me that the author of the calculator you have linked does not fully understand the concept of energy conservation and energy loss in pressurized fluid systems. First, he somehow managed to forget that energy is stored within the...

Yooper could Harvest a botnet consisting of every hbt user, spam one word replies in 5000000 threads simultaneously for 50 years, and still not come anywhere close to 10'1023....

Flat tail brewing in corvallis is my personal go to, but two towns in corvallis is interesting too, it's a cider house, but in the tap room you are able to sample some of their more expensive /rare varieties, which is fun. If you want to see an interesting, but incredibly tiny brewery, old...

This is really interesting, I've brewed 60+ all grain batches, and nearly every time I've brewed them, i've had a rather monstrous hot break to deal with. However, the last two batches of beer that I've made have had essentially no hot break. The only difference between these last two beers and...