Search results

Another short story from me. Brewed an Irish Red a few months back. First week of June to be more exact. I was planning on letting it ferment out for about a month and kegging. Fortunately for me, not for the beer, I got a new job. This job requires me to be gone for the week and home during...

So this may seem like a no brainer, but I have to ask. Here are a few things I understand. While boiling wort the action of the boil drives oxygen out of the liquid. Oxygen is one of the biggest factors of producing a proper starter. So if I were to boil dme in a flask, and cover with...

Didn't really know how to phrase the topic title, but since you made it here maybe you can help me figure out a best method. I've been working on creating a fermentation monitor, much like the Beer Bug. The concept I have put together involves having a weighted object submerged in the beer...

I should start by saying that I really do enjoy beer in general. It seems that its a repeated thing with barleywines though. I buy one, and its just to much for me. I don't expect everyone to agree with me, but a beer with over 10% Abv is just getting to be unenjoyable to me. So tonight I...

THis is a simple game. I just want to see if it takes off. poster 1 inserts item, poster 2 says what was received and puts something in poster 3 says what was received and puts something in It doesn't have to make sense, but being clever is almost always more awesome. Satire can be fun. It...

So I'm pretty sure I messed up on my volumes for doing my first yeast starter. I looked around at a few different places for an amount of DME to add to create the starter. I think I got my volumes confused though. So I added one cup DME to 1500ml of water for my starter. Pretty sure it should...

Maybe a stupid question, I don't know. Is it possible to have a stir plate that stirs to much? I just finished building my stir plate, and the capability of this silly thing is beyond what I anticipated. I did it my way instead of what is commonly seen with a diy stir plate. So my stupid...

So as some of you out there may have come to know. I enjoy posting my failures in home brewing. I have one thread out there involving an exploding RIMS tube, and now for your cringing entertainment here is a new one. I brewed a few weeks back, and unfortunately did not clean out my boil pot...

So a little while back I bought a lot of beer equipment which included the Fermentap Grain Gobbler. After giving it the look over it looks to have had little use so far, but I have yet to use it. Over the past year I have always bought my grains from my LHBS, but on this occasion I chose to...

Short story. I goto the store. I buy a six pack of whatever. I get home with chilled beer and have one, but I don't put it in the fridge. As the night would progress the beer would warm up and I would have a few more. Enjoying every one. Even the next day with room temp beer, I still enjoy it...

So I just built a RIMS tube for mash recirculation. Put er to the test last night and it will raise 5 gal of cycled water 20 degrees f in about 15 min. It can maintain temperature in the cycled liquid with 3 minute bursts of heat to the tube. Essentially, like all Rims tubes, its a 1500...

So I just have to know. I have seen a few things that people are doing in the home brewing realm that seems unnecessary in my view. So I just have to ask. Why is everyone using SSRs for their brewing setup opposed to regular old coil relays? For the life of me I can't figure it out. Is it...

So I have seen many things involving heat exchangers on HBT, but I have never seen anyone use a heat exchanger from a refrigeration system for cooling or heating purposes. They are essentially a counterflow system. Anybody tried using one of these things in their system. Opinions. Also...

So today I was trying to think of a new recipe to brew. I had put an irish red recipe together a while back but it wasn't quite what I had been hoping for. So for a change up and new recipe I decided to try vienna malt a the primary malt in my grain bill. I have never done this before, I have...

So I just brewed a pumpkin stout, and I've noticed something different in my primary than what I am used to. My direct question is. How long would beer degassing last from just sitting in a primary conical? Short story. The beer has been sitting in the conical for just over three weeks...

So I am still fairly new to the homebrewing scene. I've done quite a few ales, and was thinking about toying around with a lager this time. Thing is... I don't really have the capability of doing a lager proper right now. What came to mind, though, was to produce a recipe close in terms...

So I found a recipe that I want to give a go, DC Raspberry Stout. The grain bill doesn't confuse me, but there is one thing about it that I'm not 100% on yet. Steeping grains: 5 oz. British Chocolate 5 oz. Roasted Barley 12 oz. Flaked Oats With flaked oats I've read that you need barley...

I've only recently gotten into the whole home brewing thing, and have been looking around at random bits of info on the net to get a better perspective of whats going on with each phase of the brewing process. I found a little write up on http://bavarianbrewerytech.com/news/boilhops.htm which...

Hey everyone. I have just recently finished building a beer box as I call it, or as many would say trying to sound all fancy, a fermentation chamber. I wanted to create this little thread just to share my project with everyone, possibly give a few people some ideas, and to share my trials...

First off let me just say that I am still new to the home brewing craft, have a whole bunch of new equipment, and am still learning how to work with this equipment. That said I want to pose a short question and follow up with the specifics. The literal question is; Does a higher mash...