Recent content by Brewpastor

I am currently obsessed with brewing various German style lagers with various New Zealand hops. I love the clean malt profiles of these styles and the various ways they let subtle hop characteristics come through. I have more recipes designed than I can brew. What are you into these days?

I have also added a tipping 5 gallong kettle that us use with a sous vide. I will post photos later.

My obsession continues. My rig is mobile with a wide variety of options and three different systems. I'll post the pictures and follow with comments. I am rewiring parts and have a burner to install but its 99 % done.

Ran it today. Dang but it be fine! Super fine. So fine it’s name is Devine.

I brewed an epic beer. A massive, golden, bright barleywine that has a delicate malt profile. Hopped to balance for the long haul. 50 gallons of perfection. Stupid amount of grain with lots of wasted all for the goal of a high gravity, all-grain wort that wasn't boiled down. Three mashes...

@TxBrew it’s awesome all you’ve done for this site over the years Here is an abandoned brewery downtown

I like clear wort and I like leaving trub behind. I believe it is best left and to do so improves ones beer. Thanks for your response. I like your solution.

I have a small chest freezer full of glycol that I use. works well. I use straight well water to knock off the first 100 degrees and then utilize the glycol to knock it down the rest of the way. I get a better drop that way. I love this system. Super easy to clean up.

I have both and have moved to an immersion chiller in a whirlpool set-up. I got tired of the cleaning and was always concerned about what lurked inside those things. Back when I was doing pro brewing we would have occasion to open our plate and frame chiller and ALWAYS found crap in there even...

My kettle has a dome bottom with a center outlet. No amount of effort to build screens or standpipes has resulted in a satisfactory configuration for leaving all the kettle crap behind. So I am putting together a dedicated whirlpool vessel. It’s about done but the issue I have is that the...

I started putting my carbonator together yesterday. I need 2 more fittings for the pump to attach the beer lines but its about there. I used an old water cooler stand as a base and built it with triclamp fittings because had them.

enjoy!

Thank you.

No but I have produced sewage in my kettle... Actually it happened in the fermenter...

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