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I ditched the phils sparge are a few months ago. Since I usually like to keep a good inch of water on top of the grain bed having water sprinkle down and lose temp makes no sense at all. I build a copper distribution assemble that brings the water gracefully down to the top of the grain bed...

Does anybody use their Corny kegs fitted with a ball valve out as a secondary fermentor instead of carboys ?

Refractometer .. less waste of precious beer

Yes but you will need the co2 bottle to serve the beer that is in the corny or you will need to provide exit pressure by another device. The beer can be stored in the corny and either force carbonated (with co2) or natural with priming sugar or DME. Everything that I have read indicates that...

In the process of putting together a keg system for our beer and was wondering if it is advisable to force carbonate even if you do not have a keg fridge to reduce temp. Mainly we will be using kegs for 4th of July and other larger parties instead of bottles. should we naturally carbonate in...

Has anybody purchased any corny's from this company and what was your experience ? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=67137&item=7512263535&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

Radler, Give it another 6 hours. My starters typically take about 15 hours to get fairly active. If you dont have activity after 20 hours you might want to consider adding some additional yeast or making another starter. I assum you pre boiled the water and DME for 10 to 15mins and then let...

Just got back from driving 3.5 hours to morebeer.com to pick up a 28 Gallon SS Mash Tun / Kettle. If this weather holds out can't wait to get started on a fantastic AG brew weekend. Cheers to all and have a great weekend. Hope I dont have to see my credit card bill for at least 30 days.

Paul, I have brewed many beer batches with 2 plastic pails for primary and secondary. I would not worry 2 much about the air exposure when moving from the prim to secondary. when you can pick up a plastic or glass carboy especially for larger gravity brews which will be in the secondary...

Hmmm my current batch of Pale Ale was made with a yeast starter identical. I left if out at room temp before starting a starter for 72 hours. I piched it and it has been fermenting for 10 days now but I never got any explosion when i opened the bottled left over yeast... Wonder why the...

Oh Its going to be one tuff weekend for you waiting for that shippment to come in. Happy Brewing ..... wish my wife would give me our credit cards back :(

Thanks will do, pretty funny idea thou of taking the kitchen aid out to the backyard....

Going to Bear Rep this weekend and can't wait. Think we might try to hit up 3rd street also on Friday night - Saturday and Sunday will be all about wine tasting and then maybe a Brewery in SF on the way home Monday. Not sure if I could ask for a better weekend.

Just Tried my first AG 2 weeks ago and this is what I have learned so far. 1. Don't use Plastic Ale Pails for Mashing and Sparging tanks. They loose heat way 2 quickly and you will constantly be trying to correc the temp. * Just ordered a 10 Gallon Igloo (Sparge) and a 14 G Stainless Kettle...

Can someone provide a good IBU formula ? Also does anybody have a good way to judge the SRM of your finished brew ? Maybe a comparison to some standard main stream brews or something ?

Anybody know of a Home Brew store in the Bay Area that carries Sack quantities of Malts. Looking at avoiding freight on 55 pounds sacks if possible. Thanks

Nice Janx, beutiful weekend it was for brewing in Northern CA. Brewing outdoors is the best

OK First Patial Mash completed. Here is the receipe that we used. It seems to have a significant deeper color then I had expected? Also using a Plastic Pail Sparge bucket was very difficult keeping at 170 degree's during the sparge, any recommendations for next time ? Also sparge...

Thanks Janx you have all kinds of information.

Thanks T1 I will let you know how id goes, cant wait to get started.