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Careful now, you just may have a crowd beeting a path to your door to try some!

Update: This batch I brewed back on 11-10-16 finally hit it's prime after bottle conditioning for 6 weeks. Dang... wish I would have let them be until today! I only have one bottle left now. Next batch I will leave them alone for 6-8 weeks then start sampling :tank:

Have you thought about making a wood fired boiler? You could use the steam coming off the boiler for a LOT more than just brewing I would think.

Yup, those previous responses all back up what I've experienced with my old fridge. On my fridge I fill the top portion with bottled water, soda or store bought beers. It keeps them cool... not cold like a fridge but cool depending on how much the unit runs to cool your ferment chamber. My...

LOL... just watched that episode this evening, honestly my eyes were focused on his injury and not the name on the keg for some reason ( ;

Try rousing the yeast. Depending on what kind of fermenter you have this could be easy (with a bucket) or more difficult (with a carboy). Essentially all you need to do is sanitize something that is long enough to reach the bottom of your fermenter. Then gently scrap the bottom to get the...

I would vote for that really friggin good IPA! Honestly I have always brewed on a new kettle with recipes I am familiar with. Even if I am doubling up on the recipe at least I know what to expect, with the boil off the only unknown... Really good choice for equipment!!! :mug:

I've brewed the 5gal recipe enough times now that I felt confident to take a stab at a 10gal batch today. I hit 82% BH efficiency with a little over 11 gal into the ferment buckets. Will be just shy of 5% ABV when it's done fermenting :mug: Update: S.G. on this batch was 1.009 on 1/10/17 and...

I too have wondered if the different taste I noticed in a previous brew was due to an aggressive boil or not. It pays to keep mental notes during brew day ( ;

I was dissatisfied with my IC after several brews so I built a CFC based on this thread Now I just sip home brew while I adjust the inflow or the outflow while the kettle is draining :mug:

I think you have an excellent idea! It could really streamline your mash time and I bet you would get pretty good efficiency also. I crunched the numbers real quick for your recipe and it would take 6.5 gal to mash those grains, assuming a 1.25 ratio of water to grains. You should end up with...

I stopped racking to secondary and I list the reasons why in this thread: Death to secondary fermentation! I don't rack anything to secondary these days, not even high gravity beers, just let them clear in the primary and when the gravity stops dropping I bottle em :mug:

I'll second that! I had a few batches that went sour recently, that hasn't happened in quite a while but I was thinking of this thread with every sip of those skunky beers!

I would suggest you give a try at building a drain manifold for your cooler, you won't regret it! Having only one drain point in a MT creates more pressure on the single drain point than if, for example, you had two or three drain points. Having a single drain point also seems to push more...

I will second, third and quadruple the previous comments about grain crush as a first step to eliminate efficiency issues. I've recently experienced a slight loss in efficiency over the past half a year or more and was wondering what was going on... then the last time I bought grains to brew a...

That's pretty cool, very well done!

Giving this recipe a try tomorrow. Not sure if anyone ever answered a few of the previous questions asked about which chocolate malt to use... I searched through this thread for quite a while and couldn't find an answer so I played around with this recipe using Brewtarget software and the...

Asked my Son to follow on Instagram for me. Thanks Spike Brewing!!!

throwing my hat into the ring!

pFriem... those guys know how to brew! I have tried many of the styles they make and ALL of them are amazing... with a capital AMAZING!