Recent content by Cornelder

An excellent suggestion for both but I have an O2 wand and because I am very sensitive to oxidation, I want to continue closed transfers using CO2. 🍻

This Blichmann QuickCarb system was used about 5 times and it worked well. After each use it was cleaned with PBW, then rinsed thoroughly, so it’s in great condition. Manual and carbonation/temp chart included. Will ship within continental USA, or pickup in central Indiana. Asking for $100...

I wasted a couple of pounds of grain to experiment and found all the grains at least cracked at 0.050”. Not much malt flour. The husks looked in excellent condition at that setting for what would be a nice lauter. At 0.040” there was a moderate amount of malt flour.

I milled about a pounds worth. It looked very good at 0.040” crush. I might even go a little wider on the crush. It seemed to crush more than my original mill at the same gap setting. My old mill is a 3 roll knurled design and measured using feeler gauges. I was crushing twice before (one...

I received the mill this morning. The packing is excellent and well secured. I also bought the bucket lid adapter. The screws do not match up exactly to the locating holes on the bottom of the mill. It will be an easy fix for their second run of lids but I’m guessing all the lids in the...

Just received a notification the mill is shipping today (or at least the label was printed)!!

I just received an estimated delivery date for Run 1 on the Spike mill. April 25-May17!! Really looking forward to this upgrade for ease of use changing mill gap settings (malted oats vs barley).

I use the Blichmann oxygen flow regulator, so whatever it can do I could adjust to, although the 1 LPM stopped flowing some time ago.

Interesting to see this topic because I pitched 2 packets of WLP860 and got nothing happening about a week ago. Technical info - 1.051 SG, 5.17pH, 5.2 gallons, 48F temp. Oxygenated using a wand and pure O2 for 1.5 minutes at 0.75 lpm. I waited 5 days before giving up and pitched 2 packets of...

This is a good resource for how to manage spectrum. https://yakimavalleyhops.com/products/spectrum I used it with a hazy ipa and the convenience is great, but it did have drawbacks in my view. It definitely darkened the beer more than just adding pellet hops, which probably doesn’t matter much...

Tapcooler connected directly to the tap is incredibly simple. The gas relief tube is nice to have for reducing any foam mess, but not necessary. Having it not connected to the draft tap is not nearly as convenient.

I would also throw Novalager in for consideration. Very clean fermentation that will really let the hops shine, and definitely no sulfur showing up.

If that’s a bad picture, I can’t imagine how excellent it looks in person 😯. Incredible yellow haze!

New member here. I’ve been brewing for a couple of years and used this site for the wealth of knowledge I could glean from it. I finally had something to say to help someone else… or hopefully help.

For an inexpensive glycol chiller (~$600 for the unit) that works great and requires no effort…. get a BrewBuilt Ice Master Max 2. Perfect if you need to chill 1 or 2 fermenters.