Recent content by wfeddern

How long did you leave it on the 30psi before it was ready? and did you leave it set there to pour?

What type of procedure are people using for the dry hop on this? I typically start in a glass carboy, and move to corny keg, and dry hop there, then rack again to another keg after dry hop is done for serving. Wondering at what points to rack between kegs. Should I be looking at racking once...

I had the exact same on my batch, so the suggestions on lower efficiency seem accurate. Ended up pretty much exactly the same, 1.090 and about 4 gal. Still was a great beer.

I'm in. some great prizes.

Brewed this yesterday, but have been having issues somewhere and ended up about 0.010 short on both brews I did that day, so have a SG of 1.036. Would it be a good idea to add a bit of sugar to up the alcohol levels a bit? or should I just leave it at 3.5% ?

I am in southwestern ontario. Last few years I was harvesting sometime in September, so that still gives them a good 4 months to grow. Leaning towards just cutting them all back to the ground again.

I have neglected my 3rd year hop plants dealing with family/myself going through flu and colds the past few weeks. Now they are growing fairly well, but are a big tangled mess, as I didn't have them trained to posts yet. I did my best to trim a bit and get them climbing posts, but am...

I recently purchased a used guinness faucet from a UK ebay vendor. It has a plastic connector which from my research would seem to be a 'john guest' type connector. I am thinking I need something like this: http://www.micro-matic.co.uk/category-cid-1635.html Does anybody have any...

A trick several of us who brew together use, is to keep the promash folder as a shared dropbox folder. That way, we can all access the same data. Dropbox also keeps revision backups for us too.

Any comment on this vs the thermapen? have some credit at amazon.com and they are about the same price, but this one adds an infrared thermometer. Taylor 9306

I came across this thread while looking for comments on the bayou classic burners. For any other canadians looking for their products, you can now find them here: http://www.canadiantreasureseekers.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1139

Their website has been recently updated: http://theflyingmonkeys.ca/ They now have ingredients lists for all of their beers. For Hoptical Illusion, it lists: North American 2-row Muntons Crystal 150 L60 Muntons Roasted Barley Centennial (bittering) Amarillo (whirlpool) Cascade...

Looking to pick up a couple of these, so interested in hearing what you find.

They have been doing a lot of tweaking to this recipe, so it would not surprise me if the IBU is somewhat higher now. I would email the brewery and ask them. The owner is very friendly and may even help you put together the clone recipe.

Here are what my 6 cascade plants (second year) look like today: http://picasaweb.google.com/115403162512025165417/HopsApril102010?feat=directlink