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Selling my BIAB setup. It's been great and we made some incredible brews but times change and it's time for a new hobby. Moved back to Mead and Wine. It's a 10 gallon pot for 5-6 gallon batches. The system is a mix of tri-clover and cam fittings, all stainless, including the pump. System is...

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Don't blame the dealer, and don't be too hard on yourself. Almost everyone learns this lesson the same way. Older folks love to preach about their supposed fiscal responsibility, but it's only from the other side of the looking glass. You could have bought a time share..... I'm not a...

Oxidized beer happens quick, 24-48 hours or so I've heard. The damage (f any) is done so don't worry about it. Splashing around in the carboy added a few O2s to your brew but I'd be willing to bet the agitation of the beer forced a significant quantity of disolved CO2 out of solution, in...

I do biab and I'm consistently at 6 hours. That includes setup and cleanup. I usually do a 90 min mash and a 90 minute boil. I also heat a 2g batch of water to rinse equipment before starting. Right now I use an immersion cooler, use a pump and circulate during the mash/boil/chilling and...

I built my setup with a 10 gallon pot and I regret it. It's too small for party-gyle brews, and if even though I love to brew it would be great to get ahead on some session brews with 10 gallon batches, or do splits with 5 gallons with different yeast/adjuncts. I would recommend 15 gallons...

I usually do 5-6 gallon batches and mash with about 6-7 gallons of water. I have a 4 gallon bucket that I drilled holes into the bottom that sits inside one of my 6 gallon bucket fermentors. Before I squeeze the grain bag I rinse the grains with a couple gallons of hot water (either from a...

I'm of the opinion that cold-crashing before secondary or before bottling is not entirely necessary, but will speed things up. Lowering the temp will get the yeast to drop out quicker, but I'm getting better at being patient. I just leave it for an extra week or two in the fermentor (no...

How'd ya quit the first time? Tell me, my wife wants to know. I've had a lot of success with IPA's here in Southern NH. I got my water tested and it seems to fit the profile: PH 7.7 Ca 47ppm Ma 6ppm Na 9ppm SO4 5ppm Cl 24ppm CO3 135ppm

Sorry for dragging up an old thread but it's really good info here. I use a blow-off tube on every brew, and feed the probe into the starsan bucket, through the tubing, down the airlock and into the wort. After a few brews I got paranoid that I was poisoning myself from the plastic probe...

I use camlocks on the output side and barbs for the hose on the inlet side. Ball valves on the outlet of the kettle and outlet of the pump. I had a problem losing prime during a vigorous boil (and burning my beer!) but learned through someone's suggestion to throttle the outlet and no repeat...

The mircro-brewery license in our state has really opened the market here in NH. There are two breweries, two tap houses and an excellent LHBS less than 5 miles from my house. What/s different compared to others in the state is that these are straight breweries, actually in existence to make...

I'll accept just about any failure/mistake as long as it doesn't happen twice. Note to self: Stop burning your wort.

If it gets bigger it could start to leak. Even if you don't have a catastrophic failure there's a good chance you'll come home to a sticky puddle. It's hurts, but I wouldn't risk it.

Yeah I thought of that too late.

NEVER!!!!

I was planning on a nice light blueberry witbier in the 1.050 range. 50/50 wheat and lightly hopped with Hallertauer. I did a rest @ 112 as suggested by some to center the profile on the cloves (hate banana). Things were going swimmingly until my pump lost it's prime for about 5-10 unattended...

I've got a 10 gallon and do 4-6 gallon batches. If I were to do it over again I'd buy a 15 gallon pot. It would give me more flexibility to do bigger beers and party-gyle stuff. I could do 10 gallons, split the batch and do adjuncts like dry-hopping, fruit/flavoring additions and switch up...

Great, you can explain to my wife where that money went.....