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  1. bbohanon

    Oxidation Is Real

    Yup..tis real and why I tend to to all my racking post fermentation in a closed system as much as possible/rack into a CO2 purged keg, etc. It matters in the end product. I will also say this..alot of hocus pocus chatter with the LODO stuff, but the best Octoberfest I ever made was made using...
  2. bbohanon

    Spike etching is off

    All I can say is I love my Spike CF15. Great company and quality. :-)
  3. bbohanon

    Don't Do That.

    This is how the wife approved the constriction of my brewshed! Had a winter ale that clogged the airlock and turned my carboy into a violent volcano in my swamp cooler in the back hall closet on Thanksgiving day. Ruined everything, had to repaint the closet and replace the carpet in the closet...
  4. bbohanon

    Cleaning the Grain Mill

    This is exactly what I do along with using a 2-3" brush to get the smaller debris out. I have had the mill start to get "gritty" and not want to run smooth on the roller side due to lack of cleaning so I usually do this routine once a year and never had a problem since doing my annual cleaning...
  5. bbohanon

    Mediocre First Brew Day on the New E-HERMS Rig -- Could use some tips

    Not sure if its been mentioned but I have run an e-herms system for over 2 years now (and I crush a bit finer) and my solution to this was is to bump up my water to grist ratio. I used to run 1.25qt/lb grain and struggled with the recirc much as you are but have moved to 1.4qt/lb grain and my...
  6. bbohanon

    Ugggggghhhh Grainfather!

    I used to brew my 10 gallon batches in a keggle much like the one in your pic with a Camco element (pre SS ones)..worked great but I figured space was an issue from your previous posts but from the looks of your place, if you are rocking a Spike conical, you must have a pretty big place. :-) I...
  7. bbohanon

    Ugggggghhhh Grainfather!

    I second this suggestion..I know alot of folks are getting good mileage out of their grain-fathers/picobrew/all-in-one units, but honestly, I have never liked nor trusted them..to me, there is only so much you can cram into an all-in-one unit before things get weird (and unsafe) for the sake of...
  8. bbohanon

    Grain Under False Bottom While Mashing In

    I used a bazooka screen in my cooler back when I used to mash in a cooler..the false bottom idea in a cooler always felt too open to getting grains under it when stirring much as you described so I just moved to the bazooka screen option. Worked very well for over 2 years until I moved to large...
  9. bbohanon

    New Corney keg lids with thermowell

    Is this more targeted to those fermenting in cornies? Not sure I would need this otherwise..I drop my cornies into the freezer, set the freezer temp and carb/drink. No thermo needed for that.. Now if you figure out how to do something with the lid that I could use to drop additions in and keep...
  10. bbohanon

    North Carolina HERMS Coil F/S

    I ordered a larger HERMS coil from Stainless Brewing about 6 months ago than I needed for my pot retrofitting and ended up having to order another smaller one. This one got re-boxed but I never sent it back (just forgot to ship it back) so its been sitting in my brew shed taking up space.. If...
  11. bbohanon

    Extract Twang? How to Combat It

    Yea its weird man..when I made extract beers they were good beers and most of the friends that I had enjoyed them immensely but me and 2 of my consumers always picked up on the "twang" and noticed it very acutely. Again, the longer the beer aged, the less it was present and when I made a RIS...
  12. bbohanon

    Extract Twang? How to Combat It

    I fought this with all I had when I first started brewing and gave up and just went all grain. I firmly believe that some folks can smell/taste this "twang" more than others and I will say it will eventually "age" off for the most part, but I was very attuned to this syrupy twang taste it seems...
  13. bbohanon

    Nitro options

    I wish I could get CO2 at the end of my street.. :( Its a 50 mile drive to swap out tanks when they die on me at this point. I actually just "Nitrobrewed" another one of my chocolate milk stouts about 5 mins ago and am enjoying right now..lol..Sadly, I went from 40 bottles I had bottled up of...
  14. bbohanon

    Nitro options

    If you are not kegging yet, that's definitely priority over something like this..I keg everything (bottle as needed with my blichmann beer gun for handouts) and I would never go back to bottle conditioning my beer..I could never get good consistency in the beer/carbonation until I moved to...
  15. bbohanon

    Nitro options

    It comes with a kettle, charging station, and an air brush compressor and some hose to attach the charging station and compressor..It basically takes the nitrogen out of the air and charges the kettle with it. Air being 78% Nitrogen, it just pulls it from the air.. The kettle has a quasi-stout...
  16. bbohanon

    Nitro options

    So I got this system Friday..Let me be the first to say how impressed I am with this system. The thing that kept me away from Nitro was extra tank/refill/CO2 mix setup, stout taps, etc..Just was a bit more work than I wanted to deal with for a Nitro beer every now and again when I have that well...
  17. bbohanon

    Idylis 7.1-cu ft Chest Freezer conversion

    very nice! I have one of these I had planned to do this to, but lazyness and the ease of picnic taps have kept me from doing it..this certainly motivates me a bit more to get moving with it!
  18. bbohanon

    The Price of Craft Beer

    Dont get me started on the price of craft beer lately..its absurd what alot of the craft breweries are selling these days in relation to the quality you get for that beer. There is only one or 2 craft beers I will fork over my money for as I know exactly what I get with them time and time...
  19. bbohanon

    Nitro options

    So I am a huge fan of FWalkers Nitro Merlin and here in Charlotte, NC, Total Wine finally is starting to carry it which has my interest back into looking at how to nitro my own porters and stouts.. With that said and me just loving dark beers on nitro in general, I have always steered clear of...
  20. bbohanon

    What are you brewing next & have on tap/bottled

    I have an Orange Zested Blonde on tap currently and empty fermenters (GASP!). I need to brew my house IPA here again shortly..Time has not been on my side of late.
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