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  1. K

    Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer Mint Chocolate Stout

    I have used McCormick's extract 2oz, I have used fresh leaves muddled, and I have used the chopped leaves you get from Northern. The extract the most flavor, while the muddled leaves give the best flavor.
  2. K

    Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer Mint Chocolate Stout

    Newsman, I would rather bolster the alcohol content along with the mouth feel. Just a personal preference I guess.
  3. K

    FastFerment conical fermenter??????

    I am not shilling for FF at all. I am just posting my opinion. What irks me is people relying on bubbles instead of science. And this issue would not exist if they relied on the tools of our trade.
  4. K

    FastFerment conical fermenter??????

    I still think you guys are over thinking this. I use it without the gasket. It is not needed. Stop relying on bubbles to confirm fermentation and start using your hydrometers. Have you ever made grape bottle wine. You add 1 cup of granulated sugar, the loosely replace the cap. 2 weeks later...
  5. K

    FastFerment conical fermenter??????

    Not so sure that is a real issue. Or at least not a terminal issue. If those threads break, you could drill the hole out a little and use a but and an o-ring to secure the thermowell.
  6. K

    FastFerment conical fermenter??????

    That's not a bad setup. Good idea with the concrete forms. However, I would worry about the thermowell. It looks like it is laying on the edge of the form. I fear any pressure on it will ultimately cause a failure at that point and it might start leaking there. You might want to make sure it is...
  7. K

    FastFerment conical fermenter??????

    I have an idea for you then. A weekend project to save you some heavy lifting and a possible hernia. Make this stand and put it on caters. http://bit.ly/1xcQWGw This way you can bottle, ferment, and swap without having to loft 50 pounds of awkwardness. If you go to rebelhill's response on this...
  8. K

    FastFerment conical fermenter??????

    Always us SG. It's just good brewing!
  9. K

    FastFerment conical fermenter??????

    Sure you can do that, but then why are you using a FastFerment? You wouldn't be doing a two stage fermentation, just a long primary. Your beer would be sitting on trub and dead yeast for the whole time. At that point save your money and stick to buckets. The purpose of the FF is to be able to...
  10. K

    FastFerment conical fermenter??????

    The only solution I have been able to come up with to remedy the huge bubble trickling through my beer, is to use the sampling port I added to draw enough beer into the sterilized, new ball, to fill it up. This way when I open the valve very little air goes through the beer. As an additional...
  11. K

    FastFerment conical fermenter??????

    Its not a cutsie attempt at anything. Its a serious attempt at addressing the incredible fascination the home brewers of this world have with bubbles, regardless of the FF problem.
  12. K

    FastFerment conical fermenter??????

    Its not a cutsie attempt at anything. Its a serious attempt at addressing the incredible fascination the home brewers of this world have with bubbles, regardless of the FF problem.
  13. K

    FastFerment conical fermenter??????

    The apparent gasket issue you all are stressing over is not a big deal in the long run. If you follow my logic you will agree. When you set your wort to ferment and pitch your yeast, the yeast will go to work. They eat sugar, pee alcohol, and fart CO2 (OK I tried to make a funny, but you get...
  14. K

    Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer Mint Chocolate Stout

    Made it It is delicious. The only thing missing is a little mouth feel. I would like it a little more creamy. Next time I make it I will be adding 1 lb of flaked wheat, to see if it creams up a little more. Other than that, it was very good. Revised Recipe Recipe: Girly Stout...
  15. K

    How Important is Water to your Brewing?

    @tommyguner03 I like the Etekcity 0.05pH High Accuracy Pocket Size pH Meter, and it is under $25 at your favorite online store that starts with A and ends with n. However, I use a chemical test instead. Just like testing pool water. I take a 44 ml sample and add 5 drops of Phenol Red...
  16. K

    How Important is Water to your Brewing?

    @Allergic2hops Having volatiles that will boil off, like chlorine, may not be an issue in extract brewing, but in all grain brewing they will cause problems. When we Lauter, it is with water that is between 150-170F. Not nearly high enough to boil of any volatiles. And to make things worse, this...
  17. K

    How Important is Water to your Brewing?

    Good article. I am as picky as can be about water. Especially when i make clone recipes. Recently I embarked on making a clone of a good friends favorite macro (sorta) brew, Little Kings Cream Ale by Hudepohl-Schoenling Brewing Co., for his wedding. I went so far as to get the water profile...
  18. K

    FastFerment conical fermenter??????

    I am glad to help you. I learned the hard way. When I was still using buckets, I would panic and do anything from shaking the bucket to needlessly repitching. Then I researched it and it all made sense. I had to learn to trust my yeasty minions.
  19. K

    FastFerment conical fermenter??????

    MrKelly, Bubbles are a sign of fermentation but not the only one. Especially when there was is a lot of head room in a fermentation chamber. The ff is a 7.5 gallon vessel, so a 5 gallon vessel leaves 577 cubic inches for gasses to compress in. The only true way to know if the batch fermented...
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