Recent content by bigzippo

You'll have less sparge water. Depending on your recipe that's not a huge deal, with a big grain bill it's a bummer

I jump around styles often and don't have any problems with hop oils staining my yeast. I don't recommend feeling restricted to one style after you wash the yeast. Have fun with your stout. Just avoid any things gluten free

Yes! I applaud that recipe. Keep up the ingenuity man

Yea, I would be slightly hesitant to secondary in one but for a primary fermentor it should be fine. By they way, that is huge where did you find it?

Very ingenuitive. Is there a downside to just letting the line sit in a bucket of cleaner though?

I'm sure it will be fine. It's not like you have anything to lose right?

I probably boil for three minutes.

Exactly, you'd probably notice a difference if you tasted it back to back with a beer you brewed only boiling sixty minutes but without that reference it's barely going to make a difference. I think ninety minutes is considered the cutoff when you're efficiency is considered negligable

I brew in Fort Collins. It seems to me that I need to mash a bit thinner (1.5qt/lb) as with most of my cooking needs a bit more water. I can't figure out evaporation loss in secondary though. Aren't you secondarying in a closed container?

Wow a pound of carapils in a one gallon batch? That is a lot of carapils.

Recipe perhaps? All of my attempts have been terrible

I've done it, it works fine. I didn't check the gravity but it came out sweeter than when it went in

I agree, in the long run you will save money by only buying one larger mash tun rather than a small one now and long one later on

I like to use carlo rossi wine jugs for one gallon batches. It's eleven dollars and I get over a gallon of wine that isn't too bad.

you measure your hops by the cup? And four cups wasn't enough for this guy? wow