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Morning all! So I am so close to being done with my keezer, but I ran into a problem. So last night I hooked up my Ranco to the keezer. My wiring looks like this (see attached diagram). Once complete I set the Ranco to 39 degrees, cooling, with a 1 degree difference (thinking about...

So, I am currently in the process of building my stir plate and have learned the following lesson: When the threads say to use a power supply fan, they mean it. I initially tried to use a CPU fan, however, it just pulses rather than runs. This has somethign to do with the extra two wires I'm...

Homercidal - that is a really good idea!! I thought about it for a moment and it occurred to me that my initial statement of "matching the start fluid to the wort in order to have the yeasties in the correct environment" would have that fit in perfectly! That one is going into the book of things...

I assume no airlock because you want the liquid to continue to oxygenate whilst they little guys are working themselves up? Last night i had to go get 1/4" tubing so I picked up a stirr...er thingy and am now going to investigate stir plates. I still have a few days before the keezer is done...

I did find the Mr Malty site and that is definitely a good start. I can see what your saying about the sugar types and that makes sense. I think that is what I'll run with then, a light DME solution at whatever MR Malty suggests.

I had a batch, three gallons of a liquid can kit that I modified a hair, and it was in a 5.5 gallon ferm bucket. In 12 hours it was blowing foam out the top! So I steralized a big spoon and removed said faom (as I read that this faom tends to remove unwanted stuffs from the beer anyway....4...

Background: I have brewing now for about 2 years; made the switch over to all grain about 6 months ago. I have done some reading, though it has been a while now so I should go back and reread, but I seem to recall that making larger starter batches for bigger beers should utilize the same...

So, I would like to preface this response with the following - I have only kegged once and I am still grappling with getting it right - i.e. it still isn't coming out properly. I had some discussions with my LBS (local brew shop) folks and told him how I had done it: 1) rack beer into keg...