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I use a digital one a lot like that. I think that comment about power only applies if you're talking about powering the thermostat from the wall as well... But I just run mine on two AA's. It's been on for about a year now without issue, so wall power seems unnecessary. I just use a 12VDC...

It says you can't ATTACH images to posts, but attaching an image isn't the same as adding an external image using the

I usually aim toward the higher end of their recommended 1-2 drops per gallon. Typically I use 8-10 drops for a 5-5.5 gallon batch. I've yet to have a batch that has actually had blowoff even with that amount of fermcap in it, though I don't doubt that it's possible in some cases (for...

*shrug* Which URL did you try to use? http://picasaweb.google.com/prcrawford/Beer/photo#5210694943690048610 (which is not a direct link to the image) or http://lh3.ggpht.com/prcrawford/SFAbcZ-RxGI/AAAAAAAAD7k/0-CYJGWyH80/Hops%20Extraction.jpg (which is the image itself)

I too have a dented better bottle from some place, and it's worked fine, so I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.

I have to say it... If you use foam control you would have no issues. I have pushed my luck and fermented about 6 gallons in my BB, which is frighteningly little head space, but with foam control it did fine without any blowoff.

Yeah, I would call it more of a side note than a negative - your hop utilization goes way up, so you can use a lot less hops than the partial boil recipe called for, which is definitely good in these times of high hop prices!

Testing the HERMS system with just water, letting the PID go through an auto-tune cycle.

Very convincing article, great job Ed! With that said, the last time I bought apple juice at target, although the shelf tags said it was just under $3/gal for the store brand and about $3.29/gal for mott's, at the register they each rang up for about a dollar more, which is a bad sign of...

It's a common misconception that batch sparging is inherently inefficient. As you can see from the folks above, batch sparging can be incredibly efficient, more so than many who fly sparge. I think your original question is poorly founded. The question should not be whether you should scale...

morebeer (and probably other places) sells a bunch of line cleaning brushes, which have a 4 foot wire handle and a brush sized for 3/8", 1/2", or 1" tubing. Should be long enough to get through any normal blowoff tube http://morebeer.com/view_product/15977//Line_brush_3_8%27%27_*_44%27%27

Any bacteria/etc would have to work their way through 6+ feet of beer line, through the disconnect, and down through the dip tube to get into my kegs, and this is all while fighting the occasional dispensing which would flush out all the beer in the line, and the fact that the fridge is nice and...

Depends on what you're trying to achieve. Swirling the carboy to rouse flocculated yeast is a pretty normal procedure, but you generally do it when you have a slow/stuck fermentation, not just randomly. But, since you seem to be seeing increased fermentation activity again, I'd say it helped...

Are you sure your OG was actually 1.098? two 1.9kg cans (8.4lb) of liquid extract should, by my back-of-the-envelope calculations, yield about a 1.059 wort if you're making 5 gallons (35*8.4/5 = 59). Regardless of the OG, if it's fermented to 1.009, it's almost certainly done, there's...

Yes and yes. Just make sure to save yourself some trouble and bring the aerator from your faucet with you so you can match up the threads on the adapter, because there are several varieties.

You can buy amylase enzyme - just throw a bunch of that in with the plantain mush and let it sit a while. Try starch tests occasionally to see if it is converted. Not sure, but it could work!

My first instinct would be to check what the color mode is for the image you're trying to paste it into. If it's a bitmap (or something) with very few colors it's going to totally screw your colors. Since it appears that the image you were pasting into only had a couple of colors in it, that...

Immort ale is pretty decent, as long as you can manage to BLOCK the mental association with bandaids :p But, as that can be a little tricky, it's definitely not high on my list...

+1 on beersmith. I have never used BTP because they don't offer a trial of any kind, and as a result they won't be getting any business from me until they change that, especially since those who DO use it don't report that it's light years better than the rest or anything...

That's a great idea, especially since hops are going to be pretty light and loosely packed when drying (unlike jerky) so you can probably safely have a whole pile of hops in there rather than just a single layer of them per filter.