Recent content by richl025

Do you swim in the ocean or in lakes <g>. Or I guess you subscribe to that old WC Fields quote about drinking water? If you dont know it, Google it, it's worth your time :D

Great to hear, thanks, all!

I hope someone here can identify these critters & reassure me! I opened my airtight plastic dogfood container today to get our some 2-row, and found tiny little bugs crawling inside... There were 20-30 I could see, it wasnt like a horror-movie infestation, but definitely enough to concern...

Hey, San Antonio brewers, now that HomeBrew Party is closed, where are you getting your CO2 fills at? I just dropped a bottle off at Airgas but it'll take them 3 business days to fill it - does anyone know of a quicker place, or one that will fill while you wait?

Yes, I am cold crashing. I dry hop in primary (currently doing 3 days), then transfer to a keg & cold crash in the keg. It gets transferred to a different keg for carbonation & serving...

Wanted to see what everyone else's experience was with using a stainless steel canister to dry-hop... The few times I have done it, it seemed to me that there was decreased hop aroma in my pale ale. Brulosophy disgarees with me, but there you have it... I'm frustrated at dealing with all the...

Resurrecting an old thread.... Chiefairwrench, how can I get another copy of the PDF plans please?

What is that material you built the frame out of?

I _think_ you should be OK with those temps, I would definitely try to make sure most of the conditioning happens while the weather is cooler (ie, during the long hard cold Hawaiian winter <g>), but with an average max temp of 85 I think you'll be OK. As it looks like you already know, that's...

The filter would not help any - when you are talking about scale, you are talking about _dissolved_ minerals (calcium) that would pass through any filter except a RO system. OTOH, I would imagine the scale buildup would be on the exterior of the spray nozzle where it would be immediately...

Homebrew Party can fill your CO2 tank - they do NOT have a Haskell pump (or equivalent) to fill your tank higher than their pressure, but they did tell me a neat trick I need to do next time I get a fill from them - keep your CO2 tanks in an ice-filled cooler during the trip to the store (and...

Good article, but to be honest, the typos take away a bit from it. I know, "grammar Nazis" and all that. But seriously, an article otherwise as well-written as this one is deserves to be edited prior to publication. You cannot balance something on a "pale," but you can on a "pail" (assuming you...

There's a reason farmers used to keep cats....

Well, I gotta say, my experience rather contradicts that.

OK, I feel really silly, but I may have been "doing it wrong" for a few years now... I usually use a refractometer for my SG readings after the mash (BIAB) and of course, post-boil. I would scoop some wort out using a small measuring cup and take my measurement. Most of the time there is...