Recent content by Shack01

True enough. Keep in mind that this is for a 7 gallon Fastferment, and not a glass/HDPE carboy. I was in the process of collecting up the hardware to build a fermentation cabinet which, for all intents and purposes, would have been a small closet. I wanted something tall enough that when...

I am a 'no-chill' BIAB brewer. I live in WI, on the western shore of Lake Michigan. In summer, my basement - where I ferment my beer - is about 70deg. In winter, about 60deg. NEARLY ideal for ale fermentation... Somebody, smarter than me, said fermentation temps are key. I invested in a...

WOW! I have a large, Fermtech (3/8" ID), that I've had since the late '90s. It LIVES in PBW. OTOH: I have short one (also lives in PBW) that I had to replace recently. I had to replace the short one, because it was leaking air at the 'crook' of the 'cane.' My best guess, as to why it...

Oh...I was actually looking at one of these, recently, at my LHBS! I'm in!

I think I could find a use for this! :) Thanks Spike!

I take the easy way out and do MY version of a partial-mash! Which means I substitute DME for some of the base malt. I've been trying to clone the original New Glarus IIPA for a few years now. An interview with Dan Carey, brewmaster at New Glarus gave me some hints. The first time I...

I've been trying, unsuccessfully I might add, to replicate New Glarus old IIPA. I dry hopped, in the keg, with > 5oz of hops. I put the hop pellets in a bag (I bought a kit from Wilserbrewer last year). I tie the bag shut, tie dental floss around the bag and around one of the handles on the...

Good thing I stopped at my LHBS earlier this week! Making the hop spider... 2nd brew of this year, BMSimSMaSH (Brewers Malt[Briess], Simcoe SMaSH) to compliment the MOSimSMaSH done a couple of weeks ago...

THANKS! That was one of the ideas I stole! From Quaffer. I planned all along to have my gas tank outside of the keezer and, after looking at that build, I realized HOW I could do it! :mug:

MY experience with Apfelwein (Hanau, DE - late '90s) is the reason you put that caution 'sticker' up...and, the reason I WON'T be trying your recipe! :D Having said that; the reason I'm a home brewer today is because of my 4 years of living in 'Beer Heaven!'

...to build my keezer! :ban: After getting back into this obsess - um, HOBBY about 3 years ago, I quickly remembered how much I HATED bottle management! The bottling process isn't so bad - nevermind the occasional plugged/stuck open valve on the bottling wand, but the storing, cleaning...

By golly, that looks like a USEFUL gadget! Sign me up, please!

DEFINITELY get longer legs for (or somehow raise) your burner! I have a Blichmann burner and when I was doing extract brews (~2.5gal boils), I would put the burner on a wrought iron table. Once I decided to BIAB, I realized that THAT wasn't going to work, and I bought the extended legs for...

I'm a member of the 'water' camp... Granted, I'm a relative newby to the BIAB scene - 7 brews, 6 packaged in the past year - and the biggest variable, in MY experience, is water! Average Boil Off: 1.26gal/hr. Range: 1.00 - 1.40 gallons/hour Seems to depend on ambient conditions. I...

That's what I do too! I have the bung that allows for a 3/4" npt fitting that I built a 'blow-off' tube for initial fermentation. If I'm dry-hopping I'll switch over to the standard Better-Bottle bung, with the air-lock (as illustrated by two-hearted) otherwise, I'll just leave the...