Recent content by Trubadour

Thanks Snick. I've used this twice now, and couldn't be happier about the results. Made dark amber for a dubbel and light amber for a barleywine this morning.

I'm new to lagering and thought I'd ask the experts... I have a Munich Dunkel in day 4 that just started showing signs of activity this morning. OG was around 1060. Fermenting at around 50*. I was thinking of transferring to a keg after 2 weeks to let lager for a couple of months. Do you...

I'm drinking mine now and it is incredible. Great recipe. 1083 OG, 1010 FG, 9.56% ABV. Kegged 7/13 The only thing I did differently was add a second dry hop addition of 0.5 oz amarillo and 0.5 oz simcoe a week after the first dry hop, and let sit for another week (so 2 week total dry hop)...

Good call... I love this guy. What an *******

How long should a lager stay in D-rest? Like ales, wouldn't it benefit from longer on the yeast cake (clean up)? That's my thinking, but not sure if sitting at 60* for too long is detrimental, before lagering.

If an apple tree can produce 50 apples at full capacity (100%), but it ends up producing 51 apples, then it produced more than 100%, but that's only b/c somebody said that 50 apples was full capacity. So in the case of more than 100% efficiency, faulty calculations aside, it would be due to...

There are 100,001 threads on here about this. That's pretty much all it takes, and go to kegconnection.com or a similar business and buy a basic keggins system - it'll come assembled and with everythig you need

Nope, not at all. Plenty of insulation

I plugged it straight in to an extension chord - no wiring was needed. I was going to buy a computer fan and power supply from radio shack, but stopped by Lowes on the way for something else and ran across this... O2COOL at Lowe's: 5" Battery or Electric Portable Fan Cheaper than a...

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Thanks. Good luck with yours

It's really, really hot here right now, and it's in my garage, so it was constantly running. It didn't want to get any colder than 65* and I wanted to use it for lagering. So since 65* is good for ales, I moved those to this fridge and lowered the temp on my other to lager in, but it freaked...

Not exactly sure, but I think I'm going to modify it a bit to make it smaller. Right now it will hold 2 carboys plus room to spare. It's kind of a pain to get carboys in and out of the back, and even though I insulated the hell out of it, it seems to run too much.

yes, very basic (and good), all around american ale yeast -- a staple in probably half of my american ales

Before you get your own mill, try running your grains through their mill twice. My efficiency vastly improved after doing that.