Recent content by ave8tor

I too have been looking for small mini fridge to act as a fermenter. I made a kezeer out of a deep freezer and a temperature controller, but am having a difficult time finding one that fits my carboy. I'd still like to retain the 6.5 gallon size. Of all the mini fridges I have seen, the...

I recently just bought the same refractometer from AHS, and have noticed a disparity between my refractometer and hydrometer. After adjusting the hydrometer reading for the temperature, the corrected specific gravity is approx .006~.008 points above the refractometer's corrected specific...

Unfortunately, I didn't write down the gravity reading, but it was taken after the sparge. The one I was confused with was the starting fermentation gravity of 1.029. This was taken after the post-boil wort had cooled to approx room temp of 75 degrees.

I was planning on mashing at 155, however by the time I added the grains, it went down to about 145. I was able to bring up the temp by adding some hot water, but I was limited in by the tun's head space. Final mash temp held right around 149. Would this drop of 6 degrees make that much of a...

Took an initial gravity reading immediately after the mash, but I didn't account for the temp. The actual OG going into the fermenter was at around 75F.

First time poster in need of some help! This was my first all-grain batch, and my OG was WWAAAAAAAYYYYYY too low (1.029). I've read John Palmer's book several time (actually, I'm again going over the Mash chapter right now) and thought I had done everything right, but something obviously didn't...

Yep, same here. It was holding good for about a day or two, but a glass of water inside started to freeze over very slowly. With the coarse screw all the way in, I started adjusting the top screw to bring it back to warmer conditions, but just a small turn of that screw (either in or out)...

Holiday 7 cu ft bought from Lowes last weekend. Read this thread before I purchased in the hopes it would work. Unfortunately, I have adjusted the screw all the way in, and all the way out (or almost all the way), with the fine adjustment screw at both 1 and 7. Every setting still freezes...