Recent content by snoman6115

Boy now I feel like my sacrifice of a virgin chicken that's been blessed by the pope is a little overkill... they're kinda pricey but haven't made a bad beer since I started doing it!

2, only 1 was actually my fault though. 1. I used to keep brewing stuff in our spare bedroom, door was left open and our curious dog decided to sniff out a bag of wine flavor, think 1 gallon of honey, and tear it open and drag all over the house, but only the carpeted areas. Took days to...

If you plumb like I did so its coming out of the sprayer at full water pressure, it cleans just as well. If you run it through a faucet like normal, the faucet reduces the pressure to barely anything.

I ran a separate garden hose bib above the sink and a hot water line below to Jerry rig a common sink hand sprayer. Those wall mount faucets with sprayer are just way to expensive

A nice thing I found was to interlock the power going to the element with power to the pump using a dpst switch. No pump running, no power to element so you can't burn it out by having the pump off. Either run power out from ssr to element through the dpst or the signal wire from the pid to ssr...

As I understand, yea. Traditional BW is a mixed fermentation, with lacto and sacc and some mild brett at the same time. No boiling the wort after souring. They may pasturize some in the bottle, don't know. Like I said, I know for a fact oso makes infectious groove by kettle souring with Fage...

Guy in our local club was assistant brewer there for a while. They kettle sour with fage yogurt. Ferment with chico yeast. It's just a basic pseudo berliner Weiss. No bugs in the nottle

Yes! You cam even buy another manifold and a short piece of 1/4"npt pipe and connect the 2

I'll be in Portland and mt hood area Sept 5-8 and want to find some pliny. If someone wanted to meet I could bring some new Glarus beers to trade. Either their famous fruit beers or any of their other beers you may want.

I did one of those kits last fall and bottle carbed it with just corn sugar. Would keg just fine, maybe like 2.5 to 3 volumes

They actually look great. Doesn't seem overly dried out, nor peeling at all

I did 4 oz blue spruce at 10 min. It's noticeable but not overpowering. Going to put most of the batch into a whiskey barrel at the lhbs for 4 mo and bottle maybe a gal and age it. I also used el dorado hops 14% for bittering and flavor/aroma. Maybe a different hop would have complemented the...

Buddy at work got me an old bench capper and a box of cork lined bottle caps at a garage sale. The bottle caps are old, maybe 1950s, what's the best use for them? Will I have issues with carbed beer going flat? Would I be best off putting them up as bar deco?

I've seen bigger flow valves at the lhbs. They use 1/2 inch tubing.

I've tried a couple things early on with twist off bottles. one was add some vinegar to the bottle, maybe a teaspoon. Put about a tsp baking soda in a napkin and crumple it up so it wedges in the neck. Cap the bottle then shake so the baking soda hits the vinegar and it will quickly build...