Recent content by RedBeardBrewer

They are in Campton right now.

Hi folks, I am posting this for my friends because I think this community might be interested. They have (2) 50L Braumeisters that they were brewing test batches on for a planned nano brewery. They used each of them for 3 months and are in perfect condition. They moved onto a larger system so...

How did this turn out?

They are pellets 2012 Crop year I have a couple pounds They are mostly in sealed 1lb bags. If I have to break them up I will ship them vac sealed. I have a vac sealer and seal all my hops after use. They are currently being stored in my freezer. -Did I answer everything? I was just...

I have a bunch of extra Motueka hops. I started brewing with these late last year when I was looking for a Citra alternative. It's an amazing hop with citrus and pepper notes that I am sure is an up and comer. I copy and pasted Hop Unions hop profile in here. I am looking for $1.50/oz + what...

tsname, Something I have run into that rarely gets mentioned is how you cleaned you bottles. If you have high levels of chlorine in your water, and you used that water to clean your bottles, there can be a residual trace left inside of them once the water dries. Depending on the level of cl2...

Just went over my notes: Bottled 6/16/12 DME was 1.25 cups boiled in 2 cups water Batch size: 5 gallons ABV: 5.5

I wanted to update this post to report that I have significantly improved my efficiency through some of the techniques recommended. I decreased the size of my crush so it was finer (still no stuck mash issues). I have played with water ratios but when recirculating I have found I need a little...

I tried bottle carbonating with DME for the first time. Just cracked open a nice Pale Ale after 3.5 weeks with absolutely no carbonation. I have always used priming sugar in the past and never had an issue. I have experienced slow carbonation occasionally but never like this, it is totally...

Ok, so I think I see my major problems here thanks to everyone's help 1) I circulated too much water, I should stick to the 1.25 qt./lb 2) I did not do a proper sparge Adjusting the water volume is obviously not an issue, but how should I go about completing the sparge. Once I transfer...

My system is the 10 gallon Igloo cooler mash tun which gravity feeds into a 7 gallon pot on a propane burner. The 7 gallon pot feeds water to a magnetic drive pump which circulates the water from the pot or (HLT) to the top of the mash tun. I started off by heating 4.5 gallons to 160* and fed...

Ok, you guys got me to look back into my math and you are right. I am using BeerSmith and I had a variable wrong. My efficiency now calculates out to just over 60%. Still too low though. If I had just kept circulating the water for a longer period of time, would that have done the trick...

I think the grains were ok. I should have mentioned that in my post, but his was also the first time I crushed grains myself also. They looked good to me but I also brought a 1 lb. sample to my LHBS to confirm, and they agreed the milling looked good.

Well actually it's brewer = fail, but I need some help to fix this. I brewed with my newly built RIMS system today (also my first all-grain experience). Things didn't go well I ended up with a 32% efficiency. :( I had 12lbs. of grain and I was circulating roughly 9 gallons of 158* water...

I have been doing some digging and can't seem to find much information on this. I know selling beer is a huge PITA but what requirements are there for soda that you brew in your own home? Are there FDA regs? Labeling regs? State regs? Any info you guys/gals might have would help. Have...