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Anyone else seen these? I hadn't -- maybe I just don't get out much...

So what ever happened with this? I'm tasting a 'Red Kolsch' that was inspired by this thread. 1oz Motueka @90 0.4 Pac Jade @5min 0.6 Pc Jade whirlpool for a bit (it's a kolsch but wtf) It's good, but different. I've done this recipe before w/ saaz/sauvin and ended up with something...

The last few porters I've done have been w/ Belgian yeast. The first was good enough to keep experimenting with. You can get some reactions from people expecting just a plain porter flavor, and seems like it took more conditioning than a regular porter, but otherwise it's good.

If you have a 15A breaker, the wires are most likely 14 gauge, unless the person who wired your place was into throwing away money... Circuits for a 15A breaker are usually wired w/ #14 wire Circuits for a 20A breaker are usually wired w/ #12 wire however ... if the outlet you are...

A while back I did a "Red Kolsh" w/ wine friends in mind: No wine. Kolsh recipe but added < 4 oz each of Cara Red, Chocolate Wheat and Roasted Barley (in 6.5 Gal) for the 'red.' Bittered w/ Motueka and finished w/ Nelson Sauvin and finally slight oak. The wine lovers who "didn't really care...

You whirlpool - because you can - 15 min or so before flameout to sanitize the whirlpool / run-off circuit - to immersion-chill much faster than if you're wort weren't moving - in order to collect solids in the center of your pot - in order to extract late hop flavors between 155-185...

Hmm -- no one has mentioned Kolsch yeast (WLP029) yet for an IPA? It's fantastic in an otherwise clean but hop-forward IPA. Around here we've been calling 029 "The Gamechanger."

I got frustrated by lack of hop aroma in my bottled beer and solved it by eliminating oxygen -- it wasn't that hard: At the time I wasn't kegging but I got my hands on a CO2 tank and using a "standard carboy cap" (google it) I purged oxygen from the target container before moving and then...

Without the circulation pump the temps really stratify inside -- like more than 5F. I noticed this informally but doing a formal study w/ a bunch of sensors might be the next arduino project (and challenge as I'm not a hardware person). Circulating the water w/ a quiet $12 fountain pump, the...

Yes, I flashed a 12V STC and run it off of the power supply of the "IceProbe" ( a 12V peltier chiller). The STC wired to a DPDT relay reverses current to the IceProbe to heat when needed. A rectifier keeps the fan going in the right direction whether heating/cooling. There is a tiny fountain...

Just wanted chip in my $0.02 of praise for alphaomega and this project. You're a freakin' genius and are due a ton of thanks and even more beer (fermented under strict temp control of course). I went out, bought an arduino, pins and wires. Everything worked great and I'm now running 1000+...

I just did with amazing results: one of those 'best beer ever' beers: Extreme hop aroma, not super bitter, malts the way I wanted, but to my astonishment, that wine-like-apple-but-not-fruity kolsch flavor just shines INTENESLY right up through it all. I kept hearing that one wrong step and...

I think most people like their beer over-carbonated and too cold. I usually drink beer out of a wine glass.

Not if First Wort Hopping which depends on the lower temperatures.

Chain up a second one w/ the pump pumping from one to the other and then a fairly large piece of tubing siphoning a return. I actually did this once, but not w/ two active fermentations at the same time. Not elegant looking but it worked.

Here's a pic of the inside (I've been away for a while and finally pulled the bottle out). The pvc couplings are just something hollow to keep the bottle elevated inside. The pump just blows water up the side and keeps things circulating.

see youtube and google for a demo of the beer gun and uses (and many beer gun vs counter pressure filler discussions elsewhere on this forum). Don't want to start one of those threads, just that, if you have a chain auto parts store near by, you can have a beer gun-like thing in about an hour...

A $20 beer gun all w/ parts from the local chain auto store. Like other beer gun knock-offs previously posted except, from what I can tell, this uses the same/similar push-button air-valve as the Blichmann but built into a plastic housing. It came from a gizmo called "Turbo Venturi...

not really -- go to amazon and enter: 50W aquarium heater Fountain pump and pick the cheapest one -- both under $15

It's called and "Ice Probe" -- I got it on ebay a while back for a bit over $100. Looks like they're available on Amazon for a bit less. How low? The pic was taken on one of the hotter days so far w/ an active fermentation inside. The cooler was running most but not all of the time...