Recent content by KingBubbaTruck

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Looking good!

Think I need to prune these guys up a little bit.

Even with Extract brewing, I find a full volume boil and wort chiller to yield better results. Not a fan of topping off. For whatever reason, I always found topping off led to off flavors. Could have been just my water, etc, YMMV. With full boils and a wort chiller, I use the outflow from...

The one I bought Has a 10" lid on it. In the picture of the lid, it's the light colored rubber ring around the outside of the black plastic lid. Here's a better picture of what the gasket actually looks like.

Finally came up with a seal for my plastic conical. Found out that a 10" pressure cooker seal fit just right around the lid of my ferment. Seals up nice and air tight now.

My cascade and nugget hops are starting to poke out of the ground. The goldings appear to still be sleeping. My little raised bed hop area Cascades are poking out all over. Nuggets are coming up too.

Guess I need to go check mine a little later! Another Renoite up in Palomino Valley!

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I've been doing 1 week fermenting at 75 degrees, then I crank down the temp to around 40 for another week, then I keg and carbonate. This last batch I opened the bottom valve and dumped the gunk until I saw clean yeast, then harvested the yeast and used that for my current batch. Don't know if...

10 gallons of pale ale in the kegerator, 10 gallons of blonde ale in the fermentor. The pale ale needs a few more days under pressure to get carbonated.... Blonde has been in the fermenter since Sunday, so another week or two till I can have 2 beers on tap.

I've been using foil tape to seal the top down once I put it on. Not an ideal situation, but I wanted to see bubbles in the airlock. This is the 3rd 10 gallon batch I've done in and and I do have to say that I've noticed that I don't really get near the airlock action with this fermenter for...

Well, I got a little 5kbtu AC unit on sale for a little over 100$. I cut a hole in my Fermentation chamber and plugged it in. Oh yeah, After this picture was taken, I took the little copper bulb thermostat on the AC and very, very gently moved it to the bottom of the ac unit outside of the...

I've definitely had the problem before. Three little streams of hot glue going down the side of the funnel out to take care of it.