Search results

I'm looking to buy a 3500W screw-on heating element (240V) that is ULWD (or LWD) and "all stainless", including a stainless steel base. All that I have found are 4500W or 5500W, but I need one that is suitable for use with a 20A GFCI. Anyone find one for sale to USA or Canada?

I'm planning to directly pitch dry S05 into kettle soured (boiled and cooled) wort pH 3.5-3.8. Should I treat the SO5 yeast any differently than normal? I'm thinking that due to the pH I may need more yeast and slightly warmer than my usual lower temp (18.9C; 66F) fermentation. I still want a...

I've started fermenting in a sanke modified with a triclover fitting and ball locks (the Unifermenter by Synergy Brew Systems). The dip tube is raised about 1/2 inch from the bottom to avoid trub. Beer is kegged by CO2 push to cornies (closed system). I'd like to add fruit at the tail end of...

As I understand it, you oxygenate with a 0.5 micron stone for about 30s for a 1.055 wort (5 gal). If you have a 2 micron stone, how long?

WTB: 15 gal corny. Located in Vancouver, BC Canada but can pickup from shipping depot in Point Roberts or Blaine, WA.

Anyone ferment in cornies with a blow off tube attached to a disconnect to the gas in post? Seems elegant but ocurred to me the poppet/post/disconnect could clog. I like the idea because I could just swap it out with a CO2 line with disconnect for pressure transfer without opening the fermenter...

I clean and sanitize the chrome Speidel faucets for the speidel fermenter in pbw (30min) and starsan (2-20min), but can't remove what I'm seeing in them and now believe it is discolouration or damage from my beer (acidity) or my cleaning regimen. I have two and they both look the same and it...

I transferred a hop-forward medium IBU pale ale (fermented 1 month in primary) to a keg for dry hopping. It tasted fine but its pH was a bit high at 4.5 and it appeared to have attenuated a bit poorly (higher than expected FG). I then left it in the keg with just enough pressure to seal the keg...

I am using 30L Spiedel fermenters for primary and going straight to keg after about 3 weeks for carbonation. I have seen others push the beer from the primary to the keg by forcing CO2 through a spigot on the top and attaching the bottom spigot to beverage tubing to the keg QD. The reason to do...

I have a 50L Braumeister (15A) and will be brewing with 240v connected by an extension cord to my stove outlet. The connections are all setup for nema 14-50. I would like to use a GFCI, but don't understand what I need and how I would set it up. I think I would cut the extension cord and wire...

I'll soon be scaling up to a 10 gal system and plan on doing some split batches. I'm a hops-forward kinda guy and my wife is more of a belgian blonde or wit kinda gal. I've tried to develop her hop-taste and she's coming along somewhat, and I certainly love my blondes/wits, but I wonder if it...

First off, thanks in advance for any help. I am a bit out of my depth on this one. I am the proud owner of a used side by side fridge and hope to convert it to a fridgenstein. The fridge looks serviceable, but when I got it home I noticed it leaking oil...dribbling brown stuff from the front...

I'm considering either separate fermentation chamber and kegerator units (using fridge and fridge/freezer) or a fridgenstein-type all-in-one using a side-by-side fridge/freezer. For those who've made fridgensteins, have they lasted several years or is there continual maintenance to keep the...

I currently have 2 possibilities for setting up my brewery, which will require a 240V dryer outlet. Since I'll have to wire the house for it, I'd like some opinions on where to locate it. (1) Outdoor patio off the ground level (5 ft above ground). It's sheltered but if rain or snow is coming...

I'm incredibly impressed by the side-by-side kegerator/fermentation chamber builds I've seen and would like to try it myself (my aquarium chiller-cooled swamp cooler is dead). I've never attempted anything like this before so I'd like to rely on you wonderful people. My question for those of you...

Happy Holidays! I'm trying to build a heatstick as described at http://www.3d0g.net/brewing/heatstick, but I live in Vancouver, BC Canada, and our local Home Depot and Home Hardware etc do not carry many of the parts in the parts list. For example, I couldn't find: - 12" long X 1 1/2" I. D...

I've always got my grains milled at the LHBS. Here's a few questions that have been nagging me for awhile? 1. Has anyone experienced a beer flavour improvement when they switched to milling their own or is there just the potential for improved efficiency? (e.g. can better milled grains reduce...

WRT mash efficiency and batch sparging, is it better to have a thinner mash (eg 1.5 qt/lb) and less sparge water or a thicker mash (eg 1 qt/lb) and extra sparge water? It makes sense to me that I'd be better off with the extra sparge water to better rinse the grains and dilute any dead volumes...

I have super soft tap water (essentially RO). I recently started using the Bru'n water spreadsheet and it told me that with my APA recipe, I had a pH of 5.4 without any mineral adjustments. But since I wanted the yeast health and flavour benefits of Ca and SO4, I added CaCl2 and CaSO4 in the...

Maybe it's just me, but it seems to me that commercial beers are a tad sweeter than my homebrew. I know this is totally dependent on beer style, but I'm curious if others have noticed this or can comment. Say, for example, are commercial pale ales typically sweeter than most homebrew recipes? My...