Manitoba now has a second home brewing club....
The RCMB is an online community founded by some of Winnipegs most serious homebrewers in service to Winnipegs homebrewing community. We are active in social media and maintain with a focus on its members and will never be sponsor driven...
The Winnipeg Brew Bombers and Half Pints Brewing Company are pleased to present Manitobas first, BJCP/AHA sanctioned, Annual Pro/Am beer competition. This event is a friendly competition between professional and amateur brewers in the name of craft beer. - See more at...
BAD IDEA! Do not squeeze. I just read from Gordon Strongs book "Brewing Better Beer: Master Lesson for Advanced Homebrewers" that it's not good idea at all. It can "horribly oxidize beer" and make it "taste like paper".
Looks very close to the setup I want to do. I notice your mash tun has thermometer in the side, does that work well and how did you seal that in there?
I was worried too. You need to make sure of have some sort of hop filter in place so you are not running junk through it. So far so good and it seems to clean very easy by flushing water through in both directions. To sanitize prior to chilling you just need to run the hot wort through it for...
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I have seen...
24C was achieved for 5 gallons.
An inline thermometer is a good idea but not required. I just did a test batch running boiling hot water through the plate chiller 1st and adjusted the ball valve coming out the kettle into the chiller plate to see where i needed to be. I knew before hand that...