Recent content by moorejl57

Try it with a plastic soda bottle first to make sure you can weight accurately enough, sounds interesting. The hard part may be getting dry ice that is clean enough for consumption. It might make an interesting way to flush an open bottle prior to filling. Drop a chip in and place cap loosely on...

I enjoy the small scale brewing process and ave maybe a pint a week. Go through a bottle of top shelf Scotch in about a year. Now coffee is a whole different animal. I am a home roaster and have a big cup of strong coffee every day without fail.

Like everyone else, I tried the iodine test once or twice in the 80's when I did my first whole grain brews and then never again. Also as said above, you might like the result of mashing a little longer than just completing conversion. I usually mash 60 min or if the crush I get from MoreBeer is...

A man with a #5 tank and a F250 walks into a bar...

All this talk of pressurized fermentation made me think of a work project I did about 10 years ago with a high pressure vessel used for nano imprinting experiments. We first tried to maintain the 2000 psi with a mechanical regulator but it had way too much hysteresis. We solved the problem by...

I use 16 oz bottles because a full pint sounds better than a half liter :)

20 lb so far, 20 + 203.18 = 223.18 Ethiopian Guatemalan Colombian Sumatran

I enjoy bottling but then I also like washing dishes by hand, so I may be an outlier :)

Count me in!

This thread really stands the test of time. Straight up amazing!

I recently bought your Sous Vide circulator on sale and used it to do a small BIAB mash, it worked flawlessly. I would love to have some bags and vacuum pump to go with.

My last small 8l batch came out a little dilute as well. I had added extra strike water to get the level high enough for my sous vide circulator and then forgot to remove 2l before doughing in. I had to do a 90 min boil to get it back to where I had targeted. You could always mash a little...

Mine reads in Brix only as well and I love the convenience of being able to take a quick reading during the boil to know when I have hit my target. I also use it to measure other things (ethanol/water, salt/water, coffee) by back calculating to refractive index. Then I can use a table to read...

So what I have done with a sugar wash is: 1. Do a normal set of stripping runs to get about a 35% low wine (distill off 1/3 by volume) 2. Dilute all the low wine back to 7% with water 3. Do another set of stripping runs (1/3 volume) and taste the low wine, if still rum like repeat above 4. After...

You might want to use a barley mash for your wash. Sugar washes are cheap but not very good tasting. You can as you mentioned do multiple strip and dilute back runs to clean out the low wines before doing the final high proof spirit run. You want to hit around 95% to get a clean vodka.