Right, so we are about 20 odd minutes away from each other. Happy to pick up your grain and hold it for you. You can pick it up at my place sometime this weekend, if that works for you.
I saw an add on the banner here in HBT for Qingdao Jinyou, their kegs look nice..
http://en.jinyou.com.cn/products_detail/&productId=ec99c1a0-1fe1-4c3b-a277-49572c50af8a&comp_stats=comp-FrontProducts_list01-004.html
Has anyone ever tried to organize a group buy for an area before?
Curious to understand what your thoughts on the minuses are for the secondary fermenter. I can think of 1) additional cost for another fermenter + autospihon (makes transfer soo much easier) 2) risk of contamination. The pluses for me significantly outweigh the minuses: 1) Less chance of off...
If you don't want the paperback or want to pay for it.. Here is is basically Jon Palmer's book on-line - http://www.howtobrew.com/sitemap.html
You can also get it on kindle..
You are absolutely correct.. You can make great beer with other methods and there is no "right" answer. These are my preferences and lessons learned, which are largely based on my setup.
Sparging is the process for rinsing sugars from grain (all grain method). There are a couple methods to...
Can you provide some details? Recipe, ingredients, final volume, OG? I make 4 liter starters for my lagers, the final volume of yeast slurry is usually 500 to 1000 mL. I wouldn't worry about it.
First a disclaimer: I have been home brewing for about 1 year. I started with extract, moved into partial mash, and am on batch 6 of all grain. All in all, I have brewed 50 odd gallons with extract/partial mash and 30 gallons in all grain. I have not had to dump a single batch and 95% of the...
No harm in asking them to adjust the crush, especially if you pay them for the service. May want to state upfront your are struggling with efficiency and would rather risk a stuck sparge, so you aren't calling them out on a horrible crush.
I had some similar challenges with my first couple batches of all grain. It really does get better, hang in there!
We have similar setups and both use batch sparging.
The single biggest improvement in efficiency I made was with the grain crush. I have two LHBS. The first one "crushed" my...