Recent content by bjlesm

10 Gallon SS Brewtech Kettle with thermometer, roughly 1 year old: $150 7 Gallon SS Brewtech BME Chronical with side mount FTSS, pressure transfer kit and 5lb CO2 tank: $500 Jaded Hydra Chiller: $100 Located in Katonah, NY, pick up only, delivery in Westchester can be arrainged

Mash temp matters, obviously a beer will end up different if you mash at 155 or 140, but the difference of 153 and 151 its going to be noticeable to anyone. When I built my BIAB 240v system, I went with the cheaper Blichman controller for that reason, I can manually keep my mash temp within a...

Just experienced this as well, 1.08 NEIPA with London III, took 48 hrs to get any activity, pitched 2 packs, hoping it picks up today, kind of slow at the moment

If you cant rig a pulley system, I bought the Sentinel Boil Over Minder on sale from NB for $20ish, I just slide that under the bag as I pull it up, easily holds over 20lbs of grain while it drains, you can push all you want on the bag to squeeze, its pretty well built

My first NEIPA, 10lb 2-row, 3lb white wheat, 1lb flaked oats, 8oz Honey Malt. 1oz ea Citra, Galaxy at 10min, 1.5oz ea Citra, Galaxy, Motueka at 160degree WP for 25 mins, Wyeast London Ale III, single DH at day 4 of 2oz ea Citra, Galaxy, Motueka. Messed up the closed pressured transfer a bit...

Sorry, finally brewed again and kept times today: heat to strike : x mins crush grain...828am, 9gallons water into kettle at 73degrees, while heating, crushed grains, and weight out mineral additions dough in: x mins 856am, water at 159 degrees, mash in pull...

I got one from you, lol, think its ok?

I found this, which is why I went for it, worst, Im out the $150, havent gotten to try it yet, but I find his videos to be helpful and pretty well through out:

No bells or whistles, but Blichman sells these for $149 https://www.blichmannengineering.com/power-controller.html

Ill check if I saved my time sheet on my last brew day to give exacts, and probably brewing this weekend to give you some more data. I try to keep things as simple as possible, aeration is simply splashing the wort through a sanitized wort spider, works fine and keeps some extra trub out of the...

I can do BIAB 5 gallon batch in 3 hrs with my current 1V BIAB setup, from starting the stike water to 68 degree wort into the fermentor, plus 20 min to clean up. The jaded immersion cooler significantly helped decrease time over the small copper coil I had purchased from Northern Brewer early...