Recent content by narl79

So im wondering what the difference is to adding the water to the grain or adding the grain to water in the mash tun.

I use my pump to transfer from HLT to Mash tun and from Mash tun to kettle and when my boil is done I use a separate sanitized hose from kettle straight to carboy no pump.

Good deal thanks guys

So a friend of mine gave me a 2 year old wood mash paddle thats been used but its decently clean and has been sitting in his shed for a year. Its in good shape but was wondering what I would use to clean and sanitize it?

Ive heard of dms being a problem and that I should not keep the lid on while boiling the wort and I dont. my question is after I get my strike water to temp I cover my keggle to keep temp so I dont use as much propane to warm it up again. I shouldn't worry about dms from the sparge water since...

When your cooking dinner and look down and yell.. hell ya hot break baby and your swmbo looks at you like your and idiot and you say... what you never herd me yell that in the shed before....:beer:

I was just wondering if you open a beer and let it go flat can you put it in a hydro get get a ballpark fg reading that way?And yes I know I would still have to drink it or be smitten by the beer gods. Cheers.

Crush is the probly the culprit. Before my lhbs got there new mill I was having them mill it twice cause my numbers were sucking. After they got the new mill all is back to norm. Do you batch or fly sparge? If batch sparging when you and your second or third water amount let it sit a bit before...

When your wife asks you to make some gravy for breakfast and some how you start making a starter instead and you dont even realize it till she comes in and asks what kind of f... gravy is like that.

Ive done both but only bottled cold one time so far. It was a pale and didnt notice anything off so im doing it again with a brown tomorrow just to see. I hope more experienced people wil jump in on this.

Let it sit and brew more. Im not an advocate for age fixes all but ive seen bad beer get better over time. Chalk it up to the do not do list wich will grow long over time. As for fixing it fiddling with it might make it worse. try the dry hop if you want then id leave it be after that.

When co2 pushes the water out will make a bubble sound. Depending on how your beer is fermenting. if its vigorous it will bubble more. Check to see if its filled up all way.

It's going from 45-70. I was in time out for having the mother of all blow offs. The pantry aka old ferm room and half the kitchen got covered. I cleaned it and did some laundry and talked her into a ferm chamber build so that kind of thing wouldn't happen again. My wife is awesome because all I...

And give an extra day to grow?

Makes sense thanks. Im going to be reusing yeast so im guessing a 2000ml stater should be a safe bet?