Recent content by skokott

whip, A mash at 148F sounds really low especially if I want more residuals, no? I already got good attenuation. Went from 1.070 to 1.012

I've asked a number of people in my HB group, on Quora including food safety people, homebrewers and chemists and the consensus seems to be that the sugar in the lemon and the low pH would invite breeding of nasties and is generally considered a bad idea. Refrigerated the estimate was about 4...

"Just to be clear that does not mean I toss in water willy-nilly and leave any unused wort in my MLT...what is meant is that if I'm a gallon short I would run exactly 1 gallon more water through the grains. That's all no more no less. And in my case readings have never been to low. Others or...

Yeah carbonated water I don't see any problem with but once I introduce the lemons, not sure what that will do

I have an old DKC445BL kegerator with a 2.5" (not standard 3") tower that comes with it. I believe it's alumninum but not sure. I want to get s second line in there. The shank and elbow preclude me putting a second one in at the same height but if I go a little lower I can totally fit it...

I know I probably won't make any friends with this clearly off topic question but maybe I'll catch some homebrew experts in a good mood (You guys usually are). I want to fill one of my Cornys with water and lemons and carb it. Any chance of infections? I imagine not with carbed water...

I'm thinking of getting the manifold. Now the hard part is putting a hole in the default beer tower. I may probably have to spring for a new one, right?

Thanks again guys for all your help. I really love the HB community. I pledge once I learn something to do likewise. ;)

I'm rapidly becoming stupid question guy but here goes: I have an older style Danby DKC445BL which I've got setup for 1 corny with 1 gas tank. I've googled a bit but I'm still not finding information that a hardware nob like me can digest. If I wanted to put one more corny in there and...

doug, not sure I follow. I'm not talking about mash water which I would generally do 1.25qt/lb but sparging. I would imagine doubling my sparge water would half my 2nd running gravity unless I'm fly sparging I would think.

Not sure I understand still. I use 0.5G / lb grain. Let's say I go to 1.0G / lb grain. Won't that reduce my wort's gravity (at least the second runnings) by 100%?

Beginning AG brewer here. I've heard a lot of concern about sparging with too little volume of water. I've also heard that you keep adding sparge water until you reach your desired wort volume in the brew kettle. I'm having a difficult time understanding that. Say you add (in theory...

The water treatment additions were made from the water report by my experienced brewer friend. I was definitely happy with the fact that the hops weren't harsh and I think that contributed.

I love this forum so hard. Thanks for your advice guys/gals.