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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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My freezer is really nice for a collar:
a: It has a nice small lip on the outside to prevent the collar from sliding off.
b. The part the of freezer where the bottom collar will rest on is 1.25 inches of perfect flatness.
c. The weather stripping was fastened via a T slot and popped right out. I can probably put a wood tongue on the top of the collar and insert it into the T slot (mortise).
d. I can put a T slot on the bottom of my collar and fasten the existing weather stripping.
Need to look at some wood and insulation to get some widths. Might do all wood, wood & insulation, or wood insulation sandwich.
So is there any other breweries worth seeing, have better freebies, or better discounts than Matt?
I could be purchasing my first tap handle on this trip or sampling Matt and Brian's award winning (or soon to be) tasty beverages.
Will post more as I know more.
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.
Also talked to the brewmaster at Green Flash Brewing at their facility. Very small place in a garage of sorts.
The inside of stone was much smaller than I thought from the building size. The distributor side must be taking up most of the space. Also storing the base grain out side made space requirements less. Also interesting was it take 3 mash tun runs to fill a primary.
Have not cracked open any the 22's I purchased and hopefully they make it home in suitcase.
Off to Chicago tomorrow morning.
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Green flash is the typical microbrewery in size, though they are in the process of getting a new location for expansion.
Also moved broke my boil kettle plumbing, and kept unsoldering a joint as I was soldering another one. Changed the plumbing to a single pipe with butted up to the side, huge improvement. Evtually I will get this thing down.
Both fermentors were hopping with in 8 hours. Probably had too big of starter. Actually was down a airlock, and had to get one Monday after work.
Down to my last stone as well, I actually like the RIS the best. I did not purchase the porter, but the sample of the porter kept changing on me. Thinking I need to try a full one now. I was actually tasting bacon in it on the last tasting.
The new beer is actually fermenting hot at 76F in the basement. I moved them close to the wall to lower the temps a little. Should I leave it, ghetto cool it, or use the freezer as a temp fermentation chamber and wiring up the aquarium thermocouple?
DH made his first batch of cider this week. I'm interested to try that one - not sure what he brewed yesterday. I'll find out when I help bottle it, I guess.
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