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Anyone had this brew before? A friend picked up a sixer of it, and it is the most foul thing that I have ever drank. It is worse that my most major screwup doing homebrew. It is so unbelievably sour that it is undrinkable. I think that maybe I got a bad batch, but I am not sure. That...

Yes, they are the red alcohol ones. I got the one with the yellow back for better contrast. I have used it for about 4 years, and it has always been dead on. I check it with a NIST certed Fluke Thermocouple. Ant

Forrest is in business to make money, not to provide "pricing stability". Ant

For you cheapos like me out there. I have one of these, and I can pretty much calibrate everything else from it. If you like the digital kind try this one, its the (SKU 45-4342). It supposed to be super accurate (+/- .4 F).

Jif it seems to me that you are saying that you used the light bulb circuit to power the fan. I am wondering if the fridge has a safety circuit that looks to see if that circuit is closed and "thinks" that the door is open.

Jif, that is very interesting. I do not think it had to do with current draw though. More than likely there may have been some line noise injected by the fan that was messing stuff up, but I would have to see the schems on where you pulled power for the fan. Ant

1206+15=1221

I had always thought to myself that I drank more than a lot of people that I knew. Then I hung out with the euros at work for a while. Ant

Buy a larger fridge, and more kegs.

To give you an idea as to what it should/would look like try this. Ant

I noticed no one has mentioned a diacetyl rest. Is this not needed for this beer, or am i doing something more than I need too with my lagers? Ant

If your compressor is 120V then you should be able to pull the internal thermostat out of the loop and put in one of these with little or no problems. But you need to know if the compressor is running at all, and if it is are the evaporator coils getting cold? Ant

Well if you ever want to make a true lager/pils then waiting is the name of the game. I have had lagers that went as long as 6-8 months in the fridge. Not because they needed it, but because I was being lazy. BTW they were some of the best beers I have ever made. Ant

No you can cold crash. Personally I would leave it in the secondary for 2 weeks or so in the hopes that it clears more. Then cold crash and bottle. Ant

Just listened to a BasicBrewing podcast where they had Charlie Talley from Five Star Chemicals say that you need to add 1 oz of bleach AND 1 oz of vinegar to 5 galls of water in order for the bleach to be really effective. He also mentioned (IIRC) that this was a no rinse ratio. Ant

Hmm there seems to be all sorts of different ways to avoid boilovers. I use a small sized clip on fan and point it at the top of the wort. Never had a boilover when using this setup. Ant

Have not tried these yet, but everyone raves on them. I might make them for the super duper bowl. Trons Pretzel Thingies

What makes you say that? :cross: Ant

This was my first lager. I brewed it and it turned out very nice. After this one I have almost exclusively brewed lagers because I am pretty lazy, and leaving beer in a secondary for 6 months seemed like a good way to avoid bottling. Ant

I am sure it probably has to do with the amount of protein in the wort. It may not be scale directly, and I would assume that lipid production will intensify the foaming mechanics. Most modern fire fighting foams are protein based, add that to any excess lipids in the mixture, and you have a...