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Life got busy getting married, buying house, etc --- just brewed this recipe as my first batch in a year. Used Chinook and Citra, looking forward to it!

+11 gals hoppy brown = 1,112 gallons

I'm making a hoppy brown tomorrow and looking for some advice on a water profile. We've got really clean water here, so pretty much any profile is fair game. I use Bru'n Water so if anyone has a recommendation on a pre-defined profile to use, I'm all ears. I considered the 3 brown ale profiles...

I'm brewing an IPA in the morning. I'm pretty confident all will go fine, but figured why not post it for critique just for the heck of it. I just got a bunch of new hops so I always like to brew an IPA with them shortly after. Anyway, this is matched up to Bru'n Water's pale ale profile (with...

Got results from St. Louis in the mail today. Not the highest-ranking of judges across any of the scoresheets, but certified nonetheless of course. Feedback was somewhat constructive, though some judges completely contradicted each other. And sigh @ Nashville. I emailed them years ago when...

So I said I brewed this and would report back. Even with all the complications from a less-than-ideal brewday, this beer was a huge success and I killed the keg by myself in about 2.5 wks. That being said, I noticed over that period that the beer really transformed, and I enjoyed the different...

Yeah, 2.50/ft is standard rate. A good deal would be obviously anything under that, but of course a sweet deal would be $1.75-2/ft. I've never seen it that cheap though.

This -- it's essentially making PBW. I dunno if it's a dead ringer, but it gets the job done just as well as PBW and for a fraction of the cost, period. 3lbs Oxiclean Free (or generic grocery store -- it's gotta be the "free" version that doesn't contain chlorine or fragrances) 1.5 lbs...

To add to that, just in case he's thinking in this manner --- if youre trying to keep outside air from "leaking into" the thermowell, don't even bother. Once a probe is in there, outside air is simply not going to affect the temp reading.

Damn, that's some dedication. Right after I've racked to carboy from my kettle (through pump + CFC), I fill a kettle with 2 gals of starsan'd water and run it through the pump + CFC for a few secs onto the ground, and then once it's running clear I start recirculating it, for about a minute at...

It doesn't melt. There's some pics around here somewhere, but essentially it just gets really deformed / out of shape, and is pretty much unfixable, not to mention who knows what gets leeched into the wort at that temp.

Question -- is there a reason why you put caps on the pump ports? Only reason I ask is because I always leave all my valves wide open after brewing, to allow full drying of all components, including pumps. Just seems like it's an easy way to keep moisture from being trapped in. Now, a place...

Quick tip, and I dont't think this is really specific to this model --- I think it's for most conical fermenters: Do NOT cold crash or let the beer sit for a month before harvesting yeast out of the dump valve. If you cold crash, the whole thing will become a giant brick of yeast and trub, and...

Nope, never done that. I don't honestly think it's necessay, but there's certainly nothing stopping you from it. My probe fits relatively snug in the thermowell, so I think it gets pretty damn good coverage.

I dunno where the heck that's coming from. It's nonsense. If that were true, then they need to send a memo to every last brewery in America, because TONS of breweries harvest their yeast for re-use, and the overwhelming majority use conical fermenters.

Looks great! So I saw your info about the solenoids, and I'm wondering if you can shed some light on some confusion I'm having. The Honeywells, while fantastic with their safety features, show that they rated to handle 0.5psi of gas, and I'm really struggling with this one. My Blichmann burner...

Reviving a buried thread here. So I'm working on plans/designs for a Brutus 10, and I'm concerned about the solenoid situation. I understand the safety reasoning behind the Honeywell solenoid, but I'm stumped due to a specification on it --- specifically that it handles 0.5 psi of propane (via...

Count me in.

Yeah I'd focus on the 8 side pieces first, trimming them down with equal cuts to both ends. I'd try to stay away from cutting the 45 degree angled connectors -- those aren't really meant to be cut, and are much thicker CPVC. Not to mention, you need those angle pieces intact so the thing can fit...

Doing great so far. Only complaints I've had: 1. Latches can get bent if you're not careful, as I literally just bent one yesterday. Though, they were very quick to respond and gave me a picture-based guide on how to get it bent back using some common tools. 2. Valves -- butterfly's would've...