I am contemplating having a fairly large stainless steel hop spider made. My thinking is to have the dimensions be slightly smaller than my kettle in order to get the most utilization from my hops. Now I'm wondering if anyone has tried this before? Specifically I'm wondering it it will interfere...
I'm looking to start kegging and save a little money at the same time. My parents have a home draft system that they probably haven't used since the 80's and offered to give me their CO2 tank. My first question is; how can I figure out what size tank it is? It is a steel tank that is approx...
I made my second batch last night and everything was going fine until it came time to pitch. Then everything that could go wrong did I forgot my flameout hops addition until the wort was about 130F, I dropped my digital thermometer (possible contamination) into the cooled wort. The grain bag...
