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Thanks for the link, Brewskii! Going to use that guide to put together my stirplate. I've heard folks recommend a resistor before the pot since they typically aren't rated for very high voltage. Does that thread go into adding resistance to the circuit?

Awesome find, just ordered one. Now I need to get the other parts together. What are you using as the housing for the stir plate?

I recently ran through the back catalog of Basic Brewing Radio and the 03-11-10 episode - Starter Aeration Experiment was super informative. In it the experimenter, Sean Terrill, reported 25% (I may be not remembering the exact percentage correctly but it was significant) more yeast cells than...

Glad to hear it! The more of my batch I consume the more I'm convinced that I botched it with my DME addition. Anxious to try it again. Just gotta empty out those bottles first :P

My condolences for your loss! Think the $1.50 I spent on a 90 degree elbow was maybe one of my best equipment investments. Well I definitely have unfermented sugars in beer. I've already drank about 6 of them and they're tasty but not properly carbonated. The few were a few that were more...

Opened my first bottle this evening and I gotta say it turned out pretty ok. Good carbonation for only two weeks conditioning and great hop aroma too. Definitely better than my previous kit IPA attempt though it is sweeter than I remember Two Hearted being and the color may be darker too. Will...

Thanks, Slurm. On my next Dead Ringer attempt I'll consult that calculator and see what it suggests.

Nice! Planning to try this recipe again and think I'll use that same yeast. Not sure where I ended up exactly since I think dry hopping and adding priming sugar threw my FG hydrometer numbers off. The sample I measured at bottling time looked like it was back at 1.020. The sample had more...

I also recently harvested some Bell's yeast. Was pretty successful even though I didn't step the starter properly. Dumped 5 bottles worth of yeast in 1L of 1.040 wort. Fermented like a champ in my two hearted clone. Currently dry hopping the result. Was surprised at how well it chewed up those...

Down to 1.015! Those yeast aren't giving up the fight. Hope it doesn't get too much drier though. This beer is inching close to 8% ABV which will severely limit how many of these I'll be able to drink at a time. Also it's tasting pretty dang good at this point and I have yet to dry hop. The wait...

Ok, so just finished checking my Dead Ringer's gravity and I'm running neck and neck with you, Vitrael. It was a little tough to be precise w/ all the bubbles and whatnot but I read 1.020 @ 63F (put the sample tube in the freezer to bring the temp down). I've still got a bit of airlock activity...

Did you bottle? Or are you going to let your beer sit on the yeast longer? I was fermenting at around the same temp, probably a bit lower. I raised the temp by about 2 degrees last week once the airlock activity slowed and will leave it there for another week. Haven't taken a second gravity...

Oh thanks. Rub it in. I'm only a few days into the wait. :D What temps did you ferment at? I've got my yeast sitting at 66F. Hope that produces a good Two Hearted facsimile.

Yeah, I figured as much as well but thought I'd ask just in case. Hopefully my first measurement was the accurate one but I don't see how it could have been. Either way I'm anxious to get that beer conditioned and in my belly!

My double chocolate stout which is closing in on 4 weeks in the fermentor had a gravity of 1.016 at 72 degrees last time I checked it on 5/29 and just this evening I was all geared up to bottle since I was certain the beer would be closer to the FG of 1.012 and instead I found the gravity was up...

Just checked out "The Calculator" from http://www.biabrewer.info and confirmed that I jumped the gun with my DME contribution. According to that calculator my pre-boil gravity should have been 1.054 and I was at 1.052 @ 59 degrees F. Which meant the mash was at about 75% efficiency before...

I've got an SP10 and I've gotten two 5 gallon batches off a 20 lb tank that was not completely full and it feels like theres still enough fuel sloshing around in there for another batch (maybe two). I do full 5 gallon boils but I only bring 2/3 of my mash water to strike temperature on the...

It is a crap ton of hops. The bottom 2 inches of my pot was hop sediment. Did you just rack/pour over the hop sediment? Since I had all pellet hops there was quite a bit of it. I agree about the cost, but considering in my neck of the woods a sixer of 2 Hearted is $10 and up, it's worth the...

Wow! Must have been a full house! I was just eyeballing things and decided that it was too close to risk my brew on. Also since I was using the oven to maintain mash temps I need my brew kettle to be mobile. Is there a calculator that will tell you the max amount you can BIAB for a given pot...

+1 I was just listening to a basic brewing radio where the host did just this with a barley wine. After a lot of listeners questioned the legality of what he had done he also contacted the TTB to determine the legality of the process and the response he got was that it did not violate any...