Recent content by timg

Thanks for the first hand experience. Couple questions: 1) Was the 50 min from room temp to boil or from mash out temp to boil? 2) Is your kettle insulated? 3) Did you feel the case fan was required or you just did it as a precaution? Thanks!

Nice work! I'm thinking of doing the same thing on a square cooler. How are you finding this is working for you? Anybody else dont it this way (essentially a weldless setup on the plastic inside wall of the cooler)? Cheers,

Mikey, how are you liking the 10kW SCR? Cheers,

You ever make another go of it with the modified false bottom? Curious how you're liking this.

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Thanks for the suggestions. I have decided to drop the honey altogether and add more DME as you suggested. I'll take the advice on the williamette and move them to 15 min and 5 min. I'll post a revised calc and let everybody know how it worked out (for those other newbs to get a feel for...

Thanks again, that Freshops.com link helped. I've thrown together this as a potential recipe, would love any and all comments/thoughts/suggestions. Cheers

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll do some research on making a honey brown extract kit and see what I can find. Suggestions on type of hops that suit honey additions are welcome. I'm thinking the addition of honey and maybe 2 oz total of boiling hops (spread over using suggestions from other...

A bit more googling on my part seems to indicate that Irish Ales are typically copper/red in color? I guess this doesn't really matter as far as flavour is concerned, compared to simply the color? Thanks

Hi guys, Received this kit with some kegging equipment I bought. I have no real clue what type of a beer a "Irish Style Light Ale" is? Is it a pale ale, is it red? The reason I ask, I want to tweak the kit some, try to give it some flavour but I don't know where I'm starting from...

Hey guys, Haven't experimented much with adding to basic extract kits, but I recieved two of these "Irish Style Premium Light Ale" kits free when I bought some kegging equipment. It also included Muntons "Beerkit enhancer".. which I believe is simply a combo of spray dried malt...

Thanks guys, will see what I can rig up with a srubbie, toilet brush, and some BKF. Tim

Does a soak in BKF work or will I need to scrub? It is tough to get anything inside to scrub a sanke keg (not much of any opening). Where would I find nitric acid? Thanks Tim

I believe what I have is 75% acid. Hoping to get some rinsing advice? Thanks Tim

So I have a few small spots of rust deposits in my sanke corny keg. Really tough to get in there and scrub with a plastic pad, so I'm thinking about using a solution of phosphoric acid and water. Just wondering what sort of dilution ratio of acid/water I should be looking at? Any other...