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Last Edited by daveotero
November 11, 2009
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Here it is folks..... add your links.
Good vendors to order from:
www.rebelbrewer
www.northernbre
www.morebeer.co
www.freshops.co
www.austinhomeb
www.midwestsupplies.com [midwestsupplies.com] Accepts paypal
http://homebrewheaven.
Recipe Database:
Award Winning Recipes, Including Denny Conn and Jamil Z. [beerdujour.com]
Brew 365 Recipes [brew365.com]
Tasty Brew's Recipes [tastybrew.com]
Hop Information:
Hop Union PDF [hopunion.com]
Oregon Hop Commission [oregonhops.org]
Beer Calculators:
ABV and Calorie Calculator [probrewer.com]
Hydrometer Correction Calculator [hbd.org]
IBU Calculator [tastybrew.com]
Bottle Priming Calculator [tastybrew.com]
Mash Calculator [rackers.org]
Equipment How To's:
Create your own Mash Tun [lustreking.com]
Create your own 3-Tier Brew Sculpture Simple Schematic [imajininteriors.com] Pic [homebrewtalk.com]
Great Beer Radio:
The Brewing Network [thebrewingnetwork.com]
All Grain Brewing Info:
Sparge Methods [hbd.org]
Step by Step Video [homebrewtalk.com]
All Grain Home Brewing (1 to 8) [youtube.com]
Keg dimensions for use in determining refrigerator and chest freezer sizes:
http://www.wortomatic.
Terminology & Abbreviations:
Home Brewing Wiki [homebrewtalk.com]
What you'll need to start:
A stainless steel (preferably) stock pot, at least 3 gallon capacity. Aluminum will do.
A basic brewing kit. Northern Brewer item #7601 [northernbrewer.com]
A recipe kit [northernbrewer.com]. I would suggest a porter or a stout for your first brew, as dark brews are very forgiving of beginner mistakes. I would suggest using US-05 dry yeast.
A fermometer, NB item #7411 [northernbrewer.com]
Starsan Sanitizer, NB item #7930 [northernbrewer.com]
I would *highly* suggest some Fermcap-S, unless you like scrubbing nasty gooey dried up wort off your stovetop, NB item #9136 [northernbrewer.com]
Good vendors to order from:
www.rebelbrewer
www.northernbre
www.morebeer.co
www.freshops.co
www.austinhomeb
www.midwestsupplies.com [midwestsupplies.com] Accepts paypal
http://homebrewheaven.
Recipe Database:
Award Winning Recipes, Including Denny Conn and Jamil Z. [beerdujour.com]
Brew 365 Recipes [brew365.com]
Tasty Brew's Recipes [tastybrew.com]
Hop Information:
Hop Union PDF [hopunion.com]
Oregon Hop Commission [oregonhops.org]
Beer Calculators:
ABV and Calorie Calculator [probrewer.com]
Hydrometer Correction Calculator [hbd.org]
IBU Calculator [tastybrew.com]
Bottle Priming Calculator [tastybrew.com]
Mash Calculator [rackers.org]
Equipment How To's:
Create your own Mash Tun [lustreking.com]
Create your own 3-Tier Brew Sculpture Simple Schematic [imajininteriors.com] Pic [homebrewtalk.com]
Great Beer Radio:
The Brewing Network [thebrewingnetwork.com]
All Grain Brewing Info:
Sparge Methods [hbd.org]
Step by Step Video [homebrewtalk.com]
All Grain Home Brewing (1 to 8) [youtube.com]
Keg dimensions for use in determining refrigerator and chest freezer sizes:
http://www.wortomatic.
Terminology & Abbreviations:
Home Brewing Wiki [homebrewtalk.com]
What you'll need to start:
A stainless steel (preferably) stock pot, at least 3 gallon capacity. Aluminum will do.
A basic brewing kit. Northern Brewer item #7601 [northernbrewer.com]
A recipe kit [northernbrewer.com]. I would suggest a porter or a stout for your first brew, as dark brews are very forgiving of beginner mistakes. I would suggest using US-05 dry yeast.
A fermometer, NB item #7411 [northernbrewer.com]
Starsan Sanitizer, NB item #7930 [northernbrewer.com]
I would *highly* suggest some Fermcap-S, unless you like scrubbing nasty gooey dried up wort off your stovetop, NB item #9136 [northernbrewer.com]
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Getting close to pulling the trigger on the keezer kit from keg connection.
Hopefully tomorrow I will win the auction for a 2 stage digital (aquarium) thermo coupler for the keezer.
Anyone wanting 525SS Perkins, this site [ritebrew.com]has them for $24, but that is really all he has for kegging.
Sunday I am brewing Matt's oatmeal stout recipe and showing a co worker about brewing. First time out since Fall.
With the burner moved up, the flash boiler took 70 degree water to 158 pretty quick. +
Forgot to start sparge water. -
Hop bag broke. -
Added way to much sparge water. -
Had boil over. -
Digital Thermometer broke (it was stuck at 143 on cool down). -
Net result was I was 1.5 gallon high on wort, of which all stayed in kettle due to clogging. OG was 1.45 instead of 1.47. We had a very fine crush due to my friend made some flour on a few pounds of grain.
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With the burner moved up, the flash boiler took 70 degree water to 158 pretty quick. +
Forgot to start sparge water. -
Hop bag broke. -
Added way to much sparge water. -
Had boil over. -
Digital Thermometer broke (it was stuck at 143 on cool down). -
Net result was I was 1.5 gallon high on wort, of which all stayed in kettle due to clogging. OG was 1.45 instead of 1.47. We had a very fine crush due to my friend made some flour on a few pounds of grain.
Fermenter #1 1.009 Very strong Astringency
Fermenter #2 1.020 Astringency
Hoping its not an infection and just to much sparge water at too high (185) of temp and some flour.
Thinking about bottling this next weekend and/or putting it in a secondary for a while.
I did not make a starter, and the yeast took 3 or 4 days to get going as well.
Any suggestions?
Should I dump these yeast balls or do you think its safe reuse/wash them if I brew next week?
Thinking about doing a Smash 2 Row Cascade using a french press to extract the hop oils in 1st run wort and then use the hops for bittering. Then throw the hop oil wort in at fermenting.
about 25 minutes left in my boil, 2oz of simcoe at 60, 1 oz centennials at 10, 1 oz simcoe at 5, then 1 oz amarillo at flameout... then 1 oz of each as dryhop.
My basement is in shambles but I'll have the opportunity to brew on Sunday. The problem is that I won't be able to ferment in the basement due to the work I'm doing. Anyone have any good recipes for a beer that has to ferment at about 72deg? I have a porter extract kit that I'll probably just do no matter what, but I'd like to do my first all-grain batch on Sunday, hopefully an amarillo IPA. It'll be my first IPA.
4 ball lock kegs
dual pressure regulator with 2 way distribution per regulator
20# co2 tank
some hoses, a picnic tap, and all connectors, extra keg parts
Not a great price but better than new for $260
Now the interesting part, I was only expecting to get two kegs in with a collar. However a 10 inch collar I can actual get 4 kegs in this, or 3 kegs and 20# CO2.
Some place in the house is a paint ball tank. I think with that I could fit all 4 kegs and the tank. If the kegs are pressurized with the 20# first, how long will do you think a pb tank will keep the pressure for?
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4 ball lock kegs
dual pressure regulator with 2 way distribution per regulator
20# co2 tank
some hoses, a picnic tap, and all connectors, extra keg parts
Not a great price but better than new for $260
Now the interesting part, I was only expecting to get two kegs in with a collar. However a 10 inch collar I can actual get 4 kegs in this, or 3 kegs and 20# CO2.
Some place in the house is a paint ball tank. I think with that I could fit all 4 kegs and the tank. If the kegs are pressurized with the 20# first, how long will do you think a pb tank will keep the pressure for?