Recent content by Fat_Maul

I you cold crash after a week are you effectively stopping the dry hopping process?

Ok, so putting in a valve isn't the end of the world. Would I use a pickup tube that just goes against the side?

thanks. Redwing, when you say paint mixer, can you elaborate?

Also if you are trying to do a huge beer that has a 90 minute boil, you don't have to have all of the water in the keggle during the mash, it's ok to add water after you pull the bag if needed.

Being a BIAB brewer, I also employ the wilserbrewer hop bags because they came with his combo deal. I recently read about Jamil's modified immersion chiller/whirlpool setup which prompted questions... Is it worth whirlpooling if we're only dealing with break trub? It seems like this...

It's been three weeks since I pitched the extra wlp007 and it's still floating. Should I just rack to the bottling bucket from under it?

apparently I didn't search properly the first time, I found my answer searching again. Mods please delete this post.

what is the difference between letting a beer sit and condition in the primary for say 2 weeks after primary fermentation is over as opposed to bottling right after primary fermentation and bottle conditioning for 2 weeks?

When the 005 had finished, the beer was at 1.044. I made a 1L starter with WLP007 and pitched it in after 36 hours on the stir plate. After 3 days it got down to 1.034 but there's a big ol cake on top so I'll wait till it sinks and get my FG.

Thanks. The Biabacus only lets you input recipes in metric and that seems like a pain to convert everything especially when just playing around with recipes. Do you know if there are plans to allow for standard inputs or a modded version of the spreadsheet that allows it?

Max, I looked at that calculator and it only tells you how much strike water to use, not how large of a vessel you need. You need to know how much move volume the grain will occupy. I really wish there was an all inclusive biab calculator that worked for both sparge and no-sparge methods that...

I could have but that would have thrown things off in the other direction. It was a sweet stout so we had added lactose and some chocolate too. It's too late for that now. I am trying to find out what is best for this batch. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

We brewed a 3 gallon batch sweet stout yesterday doing biab on the stove and I made a mistake and we wound up with an OG of 1.090 as opposed to 1.068. We used a vial of WLP005 but I assume this will only attenuate down and leave us with a super sweet beer. Should I fire up a 1L starter of...

I think they meant different grain bill as in a different recipe of the same volume (lower OG) therefore changing the ratio

First I thought a high-tech approach was warranted. This is science after all! http://youtu.be/ct50C180UCg Then I decided on a more practical (and power friendly) approach...