Recent content by rmr9

Yeah it was me - realized after I replied that I’m fairly certain I commented on another thread of yours saying that’s what I used. If you go on their site and look at keg products and scroll down they have pins and firkins too. Hopefully they give you a good quote!

Dang that’s a bummer. I can imagine it would be hard to rip through a firkin before it went off too! I would check out g4 kegs. They sell to consumers as well, just have to ask for a quote for a pin. They have them in stock. Got mine from them years back and I would again if I needed another.

I’m sure you’ve checked already but sometimes you can find them on Facebook marketplace or craigslist, at least I’ve seen them before

Ha! I’ve seen that thread before it’s full of some crazy, funny and also frightening things.

Could’ve been a worse mistake and lesson learned. I just hope it doesn’t cost me my fridge!

Brewing a lager, bumped from 52 to 60 for a d rest over a couple days, figured hey I can just shut the mini fridge off and let it come up to mid-60s basement temp on its own. Proceeded to open the fridge door and walk away. Did not unplug the fridge/temp controller. Thing has been running...

Also at Maryland Homebrew where I get my supplies the pouches are $9.99. You can’t beat the quantity and quality at that price point.

I really enjoyed the Franconian yeast. Apparently the TUM-35 strain fell out of favor because it had unpredictable performance with the malts of varying quality from yesteryear. It was discovered in a lab freezer in Munich I think I read. I think Jasper is a solid yeast supplier - granted I’ve...

I think it looks solid as is. My only suggestions would be to swap the chocolate for a British pale chocolate since I like that better in a bitter. I’m an EKG fan so I would go all EKG and if you’re not limited to dry yeast I would say go for wyeast1469 West Yorkshire.

I am tempted to buy a second beer engine now…..Angrams are nice. I like that they’re still in business so you could get replacement parts if needed. My old Higene isn’t made anymore so I have to contact RLBS and hope they have what I need

That’s a good point, something to definitely consider. Heating to boil already takes a heck of a long time, that’s the only drawback to the 110V system I have. Maybe someday I’ll be able to bump up to 220V but that’s a ways away

This makes a lot of sense, it is very different for sure. As Rudy mentioned, the AIO’s do have their limitations. Process wise I’m not basing it on the cooler days. Mainly focusing on the difference in quality in end product between the two.

One issue I need to address is my vessel for heating sparge water, it can’t accommodate much more than 2 gallons unfortunately. I’ll have to see if my malt pip fits into my anvil bucket. Only problem being I would need to use said bucket for fermentation. Unless I break out my all rounder but I...

Yes I do sparge. Generally I mash in with 6.5 gallons and sparge with 2 gallons. I’ve thought about retooling these numbers but I have been getting the consistent 1.050 OG with this approach. I was thinking my volumes may be on the high end, I used to err towards slightly higher wort production...

In the cooler setup I typically did single infusion with mashout except for one time I did a double decoction which turned out to be the best hefeweizen I have yet brewed. In the Robobrew I did single infusions at 150 for the first 2 batches and the last one I did a hochkurz step mash 145 for...