I am traveling visiting a friend in the Tri-Cities area. We are doing a brew day tomorrow before we keep heading North to Virginia. I brought the base malt, my friend has the specialty malts. We are brewing 10 gal of Belgian Strong. I forgot to bring my grain mill and my friend buys his already...
I just designed a system I'm gonna build when I get home from Afghanistan that is similar to what you describe Bobby. Three keggle HERMS with two 5500w elements in the HLT and two in the BK. Meant to be scalable to 1bbl one day, and I also want to be able to bring 14 gal to a boil in under...
For those of you who like to do it ALL yourself or like to use all natural ingredients I submit this. Alton Brown on his FoodNetwork show "Good Eats" made a coconut cake completely from scratch using whole coconuts. But in the show he made other ingredients with the coconut such as coconut...
Thought I would add my experience to this sticky. Do not order your keg supplies from The Beverage Factory (www.beveragefactory.com). They completely jacked my order. I recieved an email conformation when my order was placed saying everything was ready to ship. A week later after no...
I going to make a 10 gal batch of Hefe tomorrow. I am planning on fermenting 5 gal of it with rasberrys for SWMBO. I usually prefer to do fresh, but I thought I would try this canned purée from Oregon Fruit Products just for ease. Has anyone else used it and how did you use it? How much did...
I recieved a brand new Barley Crusher for Xmas and used it for the firsr time on the 08-08-08 RIS. I have a 48qt Coleman and SS braid. I loved the crush, but the flow from the SS Braid was twice as slow as it has been with grains crushed by my LHBS. I think that I will be switching to a...
I figured it to out to be about $2-4 for 6-pk Homebrew depending on gravity opposed to $7-9 store bought (excluding race car beer). I don't really care because I love to brew and enjoy my own beer, but it sure helps get the Missus off your back to tell them how much money all this mess around...