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"No one has ever come back to say my beer or food has killed them." HAHAHAHAHAH!!! I love it.

I thought about getting one of the wavy 5500 watt bad boys... I just didn't want to mess around and pay to have 240v run to where I want to brew. I have two heavy gauge extension cords meant for a car block heater with the end cut off to connect to my two 120v elements. (and proper electrical...

Alright then! Thank you. Now that I know I am in the ballpark for acceptable heat/boil times... I can move on with life!

Hi all. Hi just finished converting my brew pot to electric. At the recommendation of the owner of the Home brew Store I frequent, I opted for two 120 volt 1500 watt elements in my brew pot. So today I decided to test with plain water. My volume was 7.5 gallons and the water temp was 53F at...

Yes! A SWAMP COOLER! lol I forgot what the slang was for that.

Do you have an electric fan available? you can put your primary fermenter in something large enough to hold it, that also will hold water. Then drape a towel over the fermenter so that the towel ends are in the water. this will wick water up the towel and the fan will evaporate the water...

Oh! haha. ok that makes perfect sense now. I'd be willing to bet, once you get your fermentation temps down, (and you don't have a sanitation issue) your beer will be much better! Anyway, Hello from Canada!

where are you brewing? I mean your geographical location?

str1p3s has a point. I use a large activated charcoal filter to remove chlorine smell/taste and then campden tablet to remove Chloramines.

I wouldn't worry too much about re-hydrating. That yeast is meant to sprinkle and forget. Also with re-hydrating, you are adding extra steps that can go wrong.

That looks pretty darn close to what Beersmith 2 is telling me! Your recommended strike temp is bang on to what it says. I have a blonde ale recipe input in it right now with 10 pounds of grain and it's telling me 6.97 gallons of water using the BIAB method. But as you say, in the 20 or so...

Wow. Ok. Thanks for all the replies! I will certainly give this a shot on my next brew. I brew 5 gallon batches. I have a 10 gallon Igloo Mash Tun with SS braid manifold and a 10 Gallon brew pot. Also, I am am a few days into learning BeerSmith 2 software. I just read that you can have...

Well, I find this home brew hobby we all have going is more of an experience related thing. The "experience" is earned from failure at the start! Lol Thank God for resources such as HomeBrewTalk! back in the very late 80s and early 90s, when I first getting into extract kits (which were...

Lol yup! It is anannoying! My US-05 yeast packages are marked for Canada so it states up to 25c. NOPE. not good at all.

I ferment anywhere from 15c to 18c (59f to 64f) any higher and I find US-05 gives undesirable off flavors.

What temp are you fermenting at? US-05 can give off flavors (well... probably all yeasts I guess) including solvent if fermentation temp is to high. But I pretty much only use US-05 and I found that was fermenting WAY to high. Once I figured out how to lower my fermentation temps, my beer...

Hi all, So I have done maybe 20 all grain brews so far. Everything is great so far! But I was wondering... So basically I batch sparge right now. So this is two steps and two times that I heat water. Strike and Sparge. Is it possible to add my total boil volume of strike water(plus more...

Picked up the ingredients for this at my local HomeBrewStore. I've never used Centennial Hops. The smell when I dropped in that first Centennial hop addition was FANTASTIC! I like to taste the unfermented wort sample I pull off when measuring the gravity after crash cooling. It was also...

Hmm interesting. So did the lab point towards your cold side equipment as the likely culprit of your infection or did you just replace as a possible cause - elimination step? Thanks for posting your results BTW!

Hmmm.. I didn't think of looking at the o-ring. I'll check it out. +1 on clipping the end to the vessel. I don't know why I did think of that! In hind sight.. it seems so obvious! lol I may give it another shot. When it does work, the auto-siphon racks much faster than my racking cane...