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Now you just need a way to crush it. Brew in a bag is the simplest brew method for making quality beer. Go online to Brewersfriend.com and you will have the tools to craft a recipe from your malted barley. look at some of the recipes in the recipe section here for ideas. Decide what...

Do not assume that the airlock activity represents the actual fermentation on any screw top fermenter. The first thing to do is probably to take some good black electrical tape, and tape the top to the fermenter well, so all the gas must pass through the bubbler. The BMB is transparent, so...

I was rather disgusted with the postal service yesterday.......... After two days of steady snow (fluff) at temps of around -5 to -10, our rural route carrier couldn't make it up the remote back roads that make up part of his route. He brings the mail to our rural post office from the main...

10 days into my "Pit Cheese" project. I've given my Taleggio a "pit wash", wiping my arm pits with a paper towel wet with whey every second day. For the record... again, I bath daily, and use no chemicals on my body whatsoever unless you include soap as a chemical. Temps here are cold...

My practice of many years now is to relax at home and retire early enough to sleep through the new year............ Going to sleep in 2017, and waking to the first day of 2018, starting the new year well rested clear eyed, and without a hangover...

Aluminum doesn't hold paint very well........ do a Google on it so you know what you are doing and get a good bond. For your brief infrequent use, the insulating value of the paint as relates to the cooling capacity of the motor is pretty much of a non-issue. It's kind of an ugly beast, made...

What else have you added PR to. I really like Cambizola, and it makes me wonder what other cheeses could benefit from tiny threads of blue. I'm "hanging fire" on my next cheese until I have my PR culture complete enough to use. I currently have two Brie ripening... not yet showing mold...

Using Ascher's methods, I'm propagating Roqueforti on a slab of sourdough bread which I made using kefir as a starter. I cheated a bit, and rubbed some gorgonzola on it for a faster start. It's been a week, and the mold is rapidly spreading, and blue spores are starting to show up...

??????????? My stir bars are little magnets....... what are yours? I just stick a sterile carbon steel knife into the flask and the stir bar sticks to it, and I lift it out..... What's so complicated about that? Any pieces of steel with the exception of some stainless alloys, will lift it...

I've looked at recipes from numerous sources, and each follows different procedures, and often uses different quantities of ingredients. Feta brine for example ranges from 1/4 cup per quart to 1/8 cup per quart, and sometimes includes vinegar, and other times does not. Culturing and cooking...

I'd sure try it............ It might also be an interesting experiment to simply put it in a mold, and lightly press and shape it into a round, making it into an entirely different cheese like a brie or washed rind.... if you have something to innoculate it with. Asher says in his...

I don't think many delta wound transformers are used anymore.... I've never seen it anyway. In a delta wound transformer, the windings run from leg to leg, rather than from neutral to each leg as in a star winding. The result is that the neutral is a center tap between two legs, the third...

It should not be a real challenge to set up an external circuit with two resistors to mimic high and low resistance of the thermister for an arbitrary temperature, and use a relay driven by an external temp controller such as the STC 1000 or the Inkbird to drive the relay. Assuming you use...

I'm not at all sure a 208V induction cooktop will run on the typical 240 volt household power that most folks call "220".

I always blew eggs.......... A number of years ago I had a friend with a bunch of quail. Her daughter wanted to make things from the egg shells, but they are extremely difficult to empty. We couldn't blow them or suck them, and finally resorted to me blowing and her sucking. Quail eggs are...

You obviously are not familiar with these devices......... The annova consists of a removable barrel, and removable end piece, a high wattage heating element, and a stainless steel shaft with a simple impeller on the end. It's all very accessible and cleanable, and it doesn't care what...

It's below zero here, thus a great day for a cheese project....... I don't feel like working outside. I've decided to do my one gallon "pit cheese", in fact I just added the rennet about 20 minutes ago. I'm very loosely following the Taleggio procedure (Cheesemaking.com). I'm hoping to...

Check out this thread: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/digital-temp-sensor-with-alarm-timer.629584/ I bought this digital thermometer / timer intended for using with a barbeque quite cheaply on Ebay. It alerts you when the temp is reached. It also has a good timer function...

I have a LOT of grains, and I make kefir about once a week. By that time the milk is turned into a very nice creamy kefir. I'm tempted to try culturing my kefir in the fridge. It has some very nice mesophilic bacteria in it...

What I wouldn't give to be able to actually control the hotplate with the Annova................. H.W.