Recent content by ElmCityWobblyPops

Great article. I have often wondered what I would get around here. Living in eastern Canada, with winter setting in, I am assuming I will have to wait until Spring to do anything.. I do have some sort of choke cherry tree on the property, that I have often wondered if I would get anything off of...

Honestly looks the same. The only difference I see is that the coarseness adjuster is on the opposite side, and you have a smaller hopper. Mine will hold a little over a pound, I suspect yours is about half that, but can't think it would be that hard to make a bigger one. While a pound at a...

To be honest, I didn't see a dial either, unless it is on the handle side (that small looking gear thing). Mine has a cover that goes over that front piece with the 2 holes that you turn to make it a coarser or finer grind, just thought it was missing on the picture of yours.

Weird, as mine looks like yours, once you take the adjuster off. Photo of the smaller one looks like it is missing the adjustment wheel.

I have the bigger version of it https://www.amazon.com/Deluxe-Grain-Mill-VICTORIO-VKP1024/dp/B006P2KG0Q/ref=sr_1_11?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1506955686&sr=1-11&keywords=grain+mill And it works great, I skipped the motor you can buy for it, as it was more than half the cost of the mill, and just...

Haven't needed the hammer since I doubled up the flat silicon with the craft foam

With the flat silicon one, it sealed the cover on so tight that I couldn't get it off. Had no choice. The flat silicon fits into the cover well, but plastic on silicon on plastic and it is hard to remove. It doubled up with the craft foam, works wonders. Silcon seals the fermenter, but with...

I have the older silicon one, and while it would seal, it would only seal if the lid was on really tight, so tight that I couldn't get the cover off without some persuasion from a hammer. So now I use some cheap dollar store craft foam that is about 2mm or so thick, place the silicon one in...

Agreed. I have 25+ batches through mine and have never had one be oxygenated because of this.

Just going from personal experience. If I use much more then 3.5 oz for a 5.5gal batch of a beer at normal FG, I get gushers. My Oktoberfest was a FG of 1.015 (OG 1.069), I think it was the Tasty Brew bottle priming calculator, that said 5.3oz of corn sugar for my volume. And I cut that down to...

Honestly, I would say you are using a little too much priming sugar. 106grams is about 3.73oz, that is a little high for 4.5gallons. I am only using a about 3.35-3.5oz for 5.5 gallons, and they come out decently carbed (2.3vols). If I followed your amounts, for 5.5, I would be looking at...

Yeah, I wrote that backwards. Explanation is correct, just the initial statement is backwards. O2 is lighter than CO2 That is true about breweries purging kegs and such with CO2 and pushing beer from fermentor to brite tank with CO2.....but then they are also dealing with much larger volumes...

O2 is lighter than CO2. While some CO2 will get pushed out through the airlock, the bulk of the O2 from the ball is going out through the airlock, and residual gets pushed out from CO2 gassing off of the beer, whatever O2 left, being lighter, it gets pushed out. I have put 15+ batches...

What little bit of air that is in an empty ball wouldn't do anything to your beer. It flows up through and the bulk of it goes out the air lock. Hasn't done anything bad to my batches.

Dry hopping is a breeze, I just use muslin bags that came with beer kits from OBK. Put the hops in the bag, tie the top tight so they don't escape when they break down, and viola. I do want to get this however. Slides in the mouth, is about the height of the FF, so should hold more...