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It has been a very long time since I brewed or posted here but I just recently learned how to eliminate the need for 4.7kOhm resistors when using DS18B20 temperature sensors. Essentially we make some changes to a few OneWire routines to use the pull-up resistors in the microprocessor instead of...

Xively feed from this code These charts might not be recording data at any given moment as I test new code Earlier this year I became interested in FuzzeWuzze's excellent guide to a Real Time Online Fermentation Temperature Monitor for ~$60 which I bought the parts for and implemented...

If any of you have every been lucky enough to have Cigar City's Cedar Aged Jai Alai IPA you know the magic that cedar can impart to beer. This beer scores a 90 on beeradvocate. Unfortunately for us, the spanish cedar infusion spirals that Cigar City uses are a special order item and rather...

I've been thinking about brewing a nice fall/winter beer with cedar for a long time now because I love the smell of the wood so much but there is very very little information on the web pertaining to how one goes about incorporating this ingredient into a beer. I intend this thread to serve as...

http://www.yeticoolers.com/pages/Keep-Ice-Longer.html Did a search here and found nothing but I'm curious if anyone has ever made a MLT out of a Yeti Cooler. The fact that the lid seals with a gasket is smart. I've been meaning to make a 10 gallon MLT for a while now and was always planning...

I finally got around to making my pre-chiller since water temperature here in South Carolina are already climbing. I brew ales so I don't need a system which cools the wort any colder than about 64°F. I also have no interest in spending $2-3 each brew for a bag of ice since that would be a...

BeerSmith 1.x File BeerSmith 2.0 File BeerXML File Mash at 1.0 qt/lb and 150°F for 60 minutes Mashout at 168°F for 10 minutes Other brewers may very well need to scale this recipe since I get 86%-92% brewhouse efficiency.

Perhaps one of the most popular thread topics here is "help me fix my low efficiency!!!". While there are usually many factors which contribute to low efficiency, one which is very frequently overlooked is a lack of precision in measuring volume. Most of us are able to measure grains to...

I have searched this topic several times over the last three years and I've always been shocked and disappointed with the lack of careful measurement regarding this topic. I'm brewing a barleywine tomorrow with an OG of 1.120 and five ounces of whole leaf hops (it's just a 3 gallon batch) so...

I looked around a little and didn't find any threads on this so I thought I'd share in case this is new to Homebrewers. Ultralight backpackers use this trick to get faster boils with less fuel... Painting the bottom surface of your boil kettle with flat back engine paint will drastically...

Does anyone know (roughly) the extract potential of fresh sweet potatoes? I'm working on brewing my pumpkin ale today and I'd like to be able to account for the sugars gleaned from the sweet potatoes in figuring efficiency.

Just wanted to brag a little and perhaps help someone out who is having problems with efficiency. I was brewing a Special/Best Bitter this morning and got yet another 90% brewhouse efficiency. I had planned for 80% efficiency in BeerSmith (5.5 gallons of 1.044 from 8# of grain) but wound up...

Oddly enough this was to be the name of this recipe anyway but it turned out to live up to its moniker. I'm hoping some of the oddity can be explained by others with more experience. First the recipe... Section 2: Recipe Information Name of Brew: Perplexed Pale Ale Entry Category: American...

Does anyone have a recipe for this fine brew? I've emailed the brewery (just now) but I have yet to ever receive a response from any craft brewery regarding recipes/tips. This beer exhibits the most impressive lacing of any beer I've ever had the pleasure of enjoying. The description online...

I've become totally obsessed with 8B and am on a quest to brew the perfect special/best bitter (to my palette) and beyond taste appearance is very important to me to. I love a beer that can retain some foam for 30+ minutes and leaves gorgeous lace all the way down the pint glass. My last batch...

Okay, I'm soliciting opinions on what hops and schedule I should use for my special bitter I'm brewing tomorrow. I LOVE Honker's Ale which has 30-32 IBUs and takes advantage of hop bursting with Styrian Goldings to create an awesome spicy bitterness so I'm very tempted to use my Styrian...

So I brewed an ESB nearly three weeks ago and mashed very high at 159F to try to create a thick mouthfeel and remarkable head retention. We'll see how that works out eventually... I was expecting a terminal gravity of 1.016 but instead the beer has finished at 1.022. It is a little too sweet...

Like most good engineers I'm enthralled by efficiency. I think it is the mental challenge of trying to squeeze every last drop of performance out of a minimal amount of materials that appeals to me. One of my all time favorite engineering quotes is: So motivation aside, I wanted to come up...

Okay, I just got 5 gallons of BierMuncher's Black Pearl Porter into the fermenter and I've got a couple questions which I can't quite seem to answer definitely via the search. 1) I got practically zero hot break, maybe 1 cup. Maybe I don't know what hot break really is! I thought it was the...

So my wife loves malty beers especially porters. I decided as my first AG brew I would attempt to make the maltiest beer possible just to see how much malt flavor it is actually possible to obtain (within reason). Below is the BeerSmith printout of the recipe. I'm hoping to get any...