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Just about everyone in the Spokane/Coeur d'Alene area brewed it..each one a bit different, each one tasty. We got growlers just after Christmas of several and had a family taste off..all good. I'm gonna brew one now.

Mine's just coiled, the coils stabilized by zipties connecting adjacent coils, and I set it on a flat spot.

Since I’ve gone to a counterflow chiller, I’m really happy with the chill of the wort out of the boil, but there’s a couple of shortcomings discussed here at length. I’ve addressed the gravity flow issue by getting the inexpensive bayite BYT-7A015 DC 12V 2.1 gpm Solar Hot Water Heater...

I made my own cfc after using an immersion chiller for years. Immersion chiller sanitization is easy, just dip it in the boil for 15 minutes...done. CFC not so much, I run boiling water through it after chilling the wort, yes, it takes 1 pass about 10-12 minutes to gravity drain to the...

I recently received a Fireboard digital thermometer as a gift. It is a USB-chargable unit, with a digital display and wi-fi connectivity to the cloud. You can download a free app to your phone and track temperature realtime. It will monitor 6 channels at 5 second intervals. I first used it of...

I drilled mine so I'd have no worries about clogged blowoff. It works great. I always thought the gas in fitting was just too small to risk clogging with goop. Of course, YMMV. Beats hell outa carboys, though.

For secondary fermentation, especially lagers, I just use a gas-in fitting fitted with a 3/8 inch ID hose into a jar of sanitized water as illustrated below. No blowoff issues, and it fits nicely in the beerfridge/fermentation chamber. The effort above is simply meant to accomodate blowoff...

After breaking my second carboy on a tile floor, I knew I had to do something different. I’d fermented in glass for nearly 20 years, but this new house has drawbacks: Lots of tile and concrete, and not much water. Profligate water use for cleaning carboys is undesirable, and if you’ve broken a...

Yes, I brewed Jeff Renner's venerable pre-prohibition recipe this week. Simple, yet complicated. No 6-row available here anymore, I used a 2-row pils malt, augmented with flaked corn. OG:1.049. Saaz for hops, yet only low alpha hops available, I bittered with about 0.25 oz. Nugget, with 0.5...

More Spokanistan brewers, more Spokanistan beer...dandy!

I do use an airlock..I attach a hose to an out fitting, and put the open end in a jar of sanitized water. I think it improves the flavors in my lagers, but that's just my opinion. YMMV.

Thanks...looks like an excellent solution.

I've been controlling my beerfridge with a SPDT Honeywell analog for some time now, wired to a plug controlling the fridge (cold side) and a lightbulb in a coffee can (hot side). It's finally gone to the great beyond, and I've a Love TS2 2100 controller ordered as those threads inspire me with...

Quarter car wash. Drain to sewer through oil/water separator, big pressure and maybe hot water to get the schmutz off. And go back and buy more.

I've been brewing for some time, only a few batches in the last few years, but the proliferation of new yeasts, new hops, and the explosions in styles has my head spinning and my brew stuff out and ready to get going. I'm happy this is a new place, though I still lurk at hbd.org. Seeya...