45 minutes to an hour depending on interruptions. I tend to get all of my ducks in a row the day before, sanitize bottles and caps quickly with spray starsan over the kitchen sink, then spray out the bottling bucket, rack to it and fill furiously. I cap off once i've reached the end of the case...
Bump, more drinking to be had on Sunday the 3rd of August @ 2:00 pm at Brewer's Pizza in Orange Park, FL (near Jax). 14-B Blanding Boulevard. Bring us good beers.
Bump. It's going down today at 2:00 pm at Brewer's Pizza/Pinglehead Brewing. 14-B Blanding Blvd in Orange Park.
I hear Lawson's Double Sunshine might make an appearance.
Brewer's law is a good resource. In order for you to serve your recipes in his bar, he'll need to apply for either a brewer's license or a brew pub license. This requires registering on both the federal and state levels (mainly for tax reasons) and will require him to pay alcohol taxes if he...
I prefer the breiss cherrywood over peated malts. It's not as overpowering and adds a great roasted smoked flavor to the beer. I also bump in a little 4 oz. addition of Crystal 60 for that added caramelly flavor it has in mine. I use plain roasted barley and some chocolate malt for roasty...
"chocolate" refers to the color of roasted malts, and unfortunately not their overall flavor. Your guess about it being roasty is correct. It will have plenty of roasty malt flavor.
If you want chocolate flavor in your beer, you need to be using crushed cacao nibs in a secondary. They should be...
Windsor yeast is lazy and it tends to crap out right around there. Actually, if you got 70% attenuation out of it on a 1.085 to 1.024 beer, that's pretty fantastic. It's likely to have some residual sweetness but you are using malts with unfermentable sugars in them. Red ales are noticeable for...
Just giving a little notice that the next greater Jacksonville area bottle share will be in one week. The Orange Park bottle share will be going down at 2:00 pm on Sunday, July 20th, 2014 at Pinglehead Brewing / Brewer's Pizza pub at 14-B Blanding Blvd. in Orange Park, FL. If you're interested...
I added a 1" plastic bottle top from a 2 liter and re-glued the cardboard pog to that. Then, I glued on the magnets by attaching them to the ends of the 2" bar and glued the undersides of the magnets directly to the pog. This also didn't really work too well, so I decided to replace the stir...
Also, there's a Jax area bottle share in Orange Park twice a month. The usual spot is Brewer's Pizza/Pinglehead brewing at 14-B Blanding Blvd. in Orange Park at 2:00 pm.
The usual dates are the first Sunday and the Third Sunday of every month. There's a facebook group also and it's usually...
Evan, tried that. It does help but I think the problem is that the magnets are too close to the fan. Another part of the problem is that at lower wattages (3-5 watt), the pull of the magnets is strong enough to stop the fan entirely.
Also, I think a 1" stir bar will help.
You other non-helpful...
I'm working on a DIY stir plate using a small PC fan and a 3-12 watt adjustable wall wort. I have the fan mounted to a project box by four #6 screws with bolts and washers with a rubber grommet on each screw to serve as a shock absorber and a rattle baffle.
I'm using a 2" stir bar and button...
The worst that can happen is a sluggish fermentation, which means you'd need to re-pitch with fresh yeast. Be sure to oxygenate your wort and add yeast nutrient & energizer prior to pitching and you should be fine.