Recent content by RGHops

I am going to make an all grain black IPA using midnight wheat. I didn't think about it when I ordered it, but the kernels are much smaller than 2 row barley is. Should I bother to adjust my grain mill to crush it? Since I am only using 6oz, can I just put it in a bag and use a rolling pin? Do...

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The instructions that came with the fermenter said to use dish soap and water, followed by Bar Keepers Friend, which I did. I am going to take wepeeler's advice and clean it with some TSP. Here in NY we can only use the TSP - Free version, but the SS Brewtech site says that will work. The good...

Brewed a Resilience IPA clone. Fermented in an Anvil SS fermenter. Went from 1.060 to 1.010 in about 3 days. Dry hopped with 1 oz hops, cold crashed, added gelatin, continued cold crashing and today racked into a keg. There is a black ring at the top of the hop line in the fermenter. The beer...

Thanks for the replies. I should have mentioned that I have both an Anvil SS Bucket and a Big Mouth Bubbler for fermenters. I don't have the option of connecting to a connection on the fermenter (yet?). I bought a SS racking cane with male cam lock fitting welded on from BrewHardware that I was...

Getting back into brewing after 15 years off. My new setup includes a pump and an immersion chiller with a whirlpool attachment. I have male camlock fittings on the kettle, chiller, pump, and female camlock fittings on the hoses. Pretty standard setup where I will pump the wort from the kettle...

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Using a pump will be new to me; I guess I need to do a few test runs with water to see how it goes. My thinking was that after pumping sparge water from the brew kettle to the HLT, I need to disconnect the output hose going to the HLT once it is filled. If I had a bleed valve, I could bleed off...

I bought a pump to use for things like filling the HLT, recirculating the wort, etc. It dawned on me that once I fill the HLT, I will have a 5 foot hose filled with hot water. My thought is to add a bleed valve to the pump output. I would have the pump head - output flow valve - tee - bleed...