Recent content by MadIslander

You are a smart man. Before we moved from the back room to the shed, my brew buddy and I both made our old lady's 5 gal of Hefeweizen and 5 gal of Hard Cider. This "special" gift gave us the green light on taking over the family shed... Cheers Sent from my iPod touch using Home Brew

Prepping the brew room tonight for a all day brew day in the morning. 5 gal of stout 6.5% 5 gal of our triple IPA 7.7% And a 10 gal double decoction triple hoped BLACK IPA shooting for a high 9% And it's bottling day as well for our last 10 gal batch... Fun fun fun Sent from my iPod touch...

Drinking our last 6pack of our HeadyTopper Clone, while bottling our 101 minute double decoction triple hoped imperial Black IPA...

My pot has a very high evaporation rate in the cold Maine temps

This was going to be my question. It sounds like your OG MIGHT be high and then your condensing this at the same rate to get your FG. For a 60 minute boil and you want 5 gallons in the fermenter you will need around 6.5 gal at the start of your boil this should help your FG in a major way.

1264+14.5=1278.5

What state are you in?? That's just inhumane if you ask me.

How can I get in on your beer swop?? Would love to share some Peaks Island Maine beer and try others

Hear are the parts to my inline filter I also add leaf hops to the inlet side for another huge hop hit at bottling.

In the bottling bucket. You will miss most of the trub after the secondary transfer but if you feel you still have to much "floating" try the whirlpool. In my opinion, if your brew room, kitchen or home is clean and your not breading bread yeast your going to be fine whirling the snot out of...

Hear are the parts I used for my inline filter. It's 1" copper reduced to 1/2" I pack the inlet side of the threaded pipe loosely with leaf hops and the outlet side with the copper mesh. You can use this in many ways but I mostly use it at flameout and at bottling. I built a 23" one for my...

I sometimes do a whirlpool with the bucket tipped away from the spout and let it settle for 20 minutes or so and it has done me right every time. I Also do a second transfer if I can't get it to fall b4 I bottle. But my ace in the hole is flash chilling the beer b4 bottling.

I tend to go way overboard on most things. This added about 4 hours to a already long brew night after putting the kids to bed. My brew buddy passed out and told me to wake him and he did the cleanup. Can't say that we needed the 3rd decoction but it sure does sound better...

My 101minute triple decoction imperial black IPA 108 IBUs 9.5% mind#uck

Thanks for the info will check it out ASAP