Recent content by OleBrewing

during mash. if grain bed gets locked there is not a whole lot of water surrounding the grist to encapsulate it. when the recirc bypasses it all the ratio is not great. like making pasta and not getting the noodles to free flow, in this case it would be the pasta getting stuck together and...

oh no with the grain bill I use at 40% wheat, with my setup it will gelatinize to a stiff "oatmeal". I think I use at least 2lbs (with out my notes total grain bill is 21-22#) . cant go wrong with more than enough and is a pain when you don't use enough. in my case I may have not let the...

in my case it was channeling as same recipe multiple times same mill gap just found a channel before maybe grain bed was rested.

I have had channeling issues before when brewing a beer with 40% wheat and using rice hulls when recirculating the mash and lost gravity points.

A Vienna Dakota grown malt American ESB (there is some Special B and C10 in there as well). Has not cleared as fast as I would like, but the residual English yeast still hanging around has a nice flavor. once cleared this baby will be crisp with a nice mouth feel and the earthy hops and malt...

this kind of reminds of a post long ago about someone propagating yeast from their pet cat hair (the animal). what ever happened to that one.

Trial run for the smoke generator on some ground jerky tomorrow. I was not happy with the amount of smoke using a pot on the electric burner in the box as there was minimal combustion. the installation states you can attach to wooden enclosures but for the actual run i am going to add some...

did a double take, veggie supper it is

trying to save every last bit of beer out of a bucket siphoning can be a hassle, depending on the type of yeast used and how hard the yeast/trub is. I chalk it up to part of the process and consider it byproduct. siphoning is fine but with using buckets might be best to drill a hole and put a...

These were the pictures from previous post I could not attach (I assume the were too large) Couple weekends ago reversed tri-tip and Sunday burgers.

site must be malfunctioning photos will not upload.

Tri tip and Sunday burgers

Even burnt the bread; I will honestly say one of the better restaurant burgers recently was from a five guys place.

I understand that whirlpooling has a great effect on dropping out proteins and hop matter, i myself have not tried it yet and have been using a nylon bag for a while. the terrors of plugging the plate chiller run deep and is not a fun ordeal. plus, an extra 15-30 minutes to brew day for a...

i would say charcoal/gas grill sear first and then indirect heat. pellet grill reverse sear. i reverse sear on the pellet grill as i don't own a charcoal grill and my table top gas grill just doesn't get hot enough. remove the steaks and foil then open the plate and turn pellet grill to 400...