CidahMastah said:Anybody tried their brews?
We went their opening weekend. We were impressed. I know they are having a real hard time keeping up with the demand.
CidahMastah said:Anybody tried their brews?
Copyright speaking of electric, did you try out that experiment that you were talking about with regard to an "e" setup?
Haven't done anything but some research. I've been too busy teaching and taking a ski vacation.
We still got like 3 months before this buy goes in I'm sure it will fill up.
Between Binghamton and Elmira.
You near owego?
Do you happen to work for Lockheed?
I'm in Elmira if you can pick up at my place I'll grab it for you.
dbennett78 said:I have no issue picking up in Elmira or somewhere around there. Ill put in my order once my buddy gets back to me on what he wants and let you know. Thanks.
Looks like your PM inbox is full, so if you need any information shoot me one.
Herms/Immersion Chiller builders
Hey all. I know many people are faced with the choice of copper or stainless for the coil they are using on their eherms, or even for a immersion chiller coil. Anyway, wanted to let you guys know I just made a trip over to tractor supply and home depot and picked up the parts to build a bending jig for as per V-Twin's instructions. I am about $70 or so in the hole for the jig so far, we will see if I can make it work on that.
So why am I telling you this? This bender jig should work equally well for stainless herms coils and immersion chillers. Pending I am able to produce a good uniform bend with this jig, you all will know someone in the Syracuse area who has this jig for borrow. If you are in the midst of a build and might want to use the rig, perhaps for a nominal fee you could borrow it and help me recoup some of the cost to build it. That means that you will be able to build a stainless IC, or Herms coil for about the same cost as copper since you only would toss in a small fraction of the cost of the bending jig.
I plan on using this to do a stainless coil for our eherms as well as re-bending our immersion chiller to be wider in diameter (our pots have a wider diameter now since our upgrade so now I would like to broaden our chiller's diameter so it is more out of the way).
Let me know if you do have interest.
Cidah, I'm not sure if I read this but if we get this hop buy to go through will it ship at the same time as the grain? Or before?
Mparsons327 said:Anyone know of a semi local source for a used 10-15 gallon oak barrel?
Just added a sack of wheat.
Currently planning a pyramid brewing company styled hefe with a decoction.
I just picked up a vial of the American Hefe (wlp320) yeast to make the same type of thing. Never used it before, though I do know it is actually a type of Altbier yeast from Widmer. Apparently it ferments well down into the low 60's if you want less character. One thing I was thinking of doing differently is to sub the wheat malt for flaked wheat. The flaked wheat adds more body and mouthfeel (almost creamy) than a standard wheat malt. Might add a bit of munich to get the color up just a tad.
I'm not a huge fan of banana-y hefes, so this yeast looks like a good fit.
just threw myself in for a pound of warrior and a second pound of cascade to close that.
Cidah, I would also be willing to open a split for amarillo, crystal, and simcoe if they are available?
Yes keep the orders up! I just caught **** from my fiance for ordering a new food sealer. It didn't help that my reason for ordering it was hops that we MIGHT get!
CidahMastah said:you know me, and have read a bunch of my posts on hefes, still in search of finding the perfect hefe recipe for sure. Maybe I will try flaked wheat in an up and coming brew. I plan on cranking out several batches using several variations. IMO I think an outstanding hefe is a requirement for HBers. Sadly I have good versions, but not fantastic IMO. I think for me some of it is the hardness of my water. But I would love to reproduce a franciskanner dunkel in particular, regular hefe, or an ayinger bavarian hefe is pretty good too.
Let me know how your experiment turns out.
However beers that ask for soft water at my house will be far and few between in brewing I am afraind. Unless someone has a cheap water softener/filtering solution. haha
The Ayinger dunkleweizen is my "white whale" of home brewing. Obsessed with finding it, brewing it, and mastering it.
the Franziskaner has a special place in my heart too; I'll always remember the first time I tried one (now more than a decade ago). It really changed my idea of what the word "beer" even meant.
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