Recent content by kevin58

20+ year brewer here. The first for me was buying a grain mill. Second was fermentation temperature control. Third came closed transfers to minimize O2. Then there is water treatment including PH.

hmmm... I've got a 5 pound sack of dried, shelled corn left over from deer season. It cost me $6.00 a bag.

I have well and septic but we also have a sump pump in the basement where I direct brewing waste water. It flows to a drain at the road.

I've been brewing closer to years and my favorites are London Porters and Stouts... with English and American IPAs next in preference... within the past years I've come to enjoy historic and oddball lagers.

IPA, PA, Porter, Stout, etc.

https://www.hopcraftsupply.com/ is my LHBS. They sell online too..

Where ya been? Prices for everything have gone up over the past 4 years.

OK, so you made me go count how many recipes I have archived in Beersmith. Almost 350. About 270 of those are historic recipes and the rest split between clones and random things I've picked up here and there (books. magazines, online). I've only scratched the surface when it comes to making...

I keg mine, carbonate it and leave it in the kegerator set at my preferred serving temperature (38° to 40°).

You need to forget what you did with that old cooler rig. This is a brand new system with its own equipment profile. Start building your recipe from scratch and make refinements along the way until you get the results you want. I started with a cooler mash tun type system and then went to a...

Knowing the grain bill, mash details and PH will go a long way in helping to figure out what happened. There is really not enough info here at the moment.

Advantages of clear wort during mash recirculation? Preventing grain bits from getting into your boil kettle prevents compounds that may lead to unpleasant flavors in your finished beer. If you want clear wort coming out of your mash tun without recirculation just conduct what most of us did...

The absolute guru of British beers their history, research and recipes taken directly from the brewers logbooks is Ron Pattinson. Here is the search result I got by searching for his bitter (pale ale) recipes: https://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/search?q=Let%27s+Brew+%2BBitter

^^^ This ^^^ I bought two Tilt's used and I'm glad I didn't pay full price.

Beersmith is more robust than most others out there. The learning curve is high and the level of user customization confounds some users who expect their software to be plug-and-play. If you don't mind spending the time needed to learn the ins and outs then Beersmith is your best choice. If you...