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I take issue with the "count right". If I weren't brewing, I might be playing golf for entertainment. In that case, you would count brewing as a savings since it is much cheaper than golf on a per session cost unless you own your own golf course. Instead of paying $40 greens fees, I'm saving...

Sounds to me like there is a source of infection (acetic acid bacteria at a guess). Based on your description of your sanitation procedure, it doesn't sound like you push sanitizer through your dip tube. If you don't, then it is unlikely that sanitizer is reaching the inside of the tube. When...

Breaking even really depends on how you count your brewing time. If you are counting time spent in the costs column, then you'll be very unlikely to break even--ever. Because I count my brewing time and tinkering time as entertainment, I think it would be reasonable to compare it against...

I regularly brew 3 five gallon batches from one mash. So do you count that as one or three?

Take the lid off of your airlock and attach a tube to the tube in the center of the airlock. Run the other end of the tube you attached into a bucket of water. The "blow off" will run through this tube into the bucket.

To calculate color for a parti gyle: Multiply Lovibond by pounds for each item on your grain bill and add to get a total coloring units (TCU). I use the formula Color in SRM = 1.4922*(TCU*0.6)^0.6859 The 0.6 comes from the amount of extract in your first beer (I figure 60% for my system). By...

On tap: Wheelmen's Weak Pale Ale Fermenting: 2012 Barley Wine Next brew: Young Katherine's Imperial stout, Mr. Porter & Lil' Libby's Brown Ale After that? Your suggestions would be helpful. Suggest 3 beers: One very high gravity, one medium and one low gravity.

I agree with JayMac and Yooper about vorlaufing after stirring. If you're going to stir, you need to reset the grain bed or you'll have cloudy beer. I'm skeptical about the idea that stirring the mash helps release the sugars from the grain though. I'd suggest an experiment--do a mash with...

I bought 5 of them for my biology classes on Ebay. I think I paid $15 each. They work just fine. I've always used Neubauer-improved. Unless you are doing counts all day long, I'd go with the inexpensive alternative. Bright field works fine for yeast. Of course, if you're set up for it dark...

Looks good to me except that in step 4, it looks like you stirred the mash after vorlauf. The point of recirculating is to get the grain bed to filter your wort. Disturbing it after vorlauf will free up any grain husks, and other stuff it was filtering before. If you feel you have to stir...

Thanks Bobby. I saw your video on camlocks and thought that might be a good way to go. I've been drawing piping diagrams and it just seems like I'll need a whole lot of ball valves if I want it all hard plumbed in. If I do the camlocks, how many tubes do you think I need?--2? 1 tube to...

Since I made my first post today in the DIY part of the forum, I thought I ought to introduce myself. I'm Dave. I've lurked on this forum for a long time, and have found it to be helpful, though I've never found it necessary to add my 2 cents--people are pretty good about helping here. I've...

I need your creativity and experience for my parti-gyle brewery build. Because my brewery evolved and was not intelligently designed it is a bit convoluted. Please bear with me. I finally found the money to invest in a pump, and I need a little help with the design of the plumbing. I'm going...