Recent content by Bobby_M

I know him well enough that it was likely measured to the mL that he intended. Besides, he checks on it every day.

Yeah for sure. I'm not asking anyone to participate in the demise of a local small business.

My friend Larry's drool-worthy brewery being flexed by the master himself.

We started tweaking our UPS rates a bit this week. We just got a pretty good bump on our discount structure and we're working on getting the live rates displaying. If you've already shopped for a sample shipping rate or two since I posted this thread, try again, you might be surprised by the UPS...

Yeah, who cares right? In fact, it is against Brewhardware.com, a family owned small business that invented the part. The seller on amazon is a Chinese owned company that copied the product and knows nothing about brewing and doesn't want to. Of course people are free to send their money where...

The 3500 foldback is likely the lowest watt density you'll find and then you can fine tune it with the BC output power maximum setting. I'd set the max power by first selecting the desired output temperature, set your pump flow rate to 1.5 quarts per minute and then see how low of a power...

100B cells is enough for SOME wort but not high gravity ones. You don't have 100B cells in the pack unless the package date was "today". For higher gravity ales, you want about 1M cells per 1mL of wort per degree plato (SG/4 so 1.080 is 20P). 5 gallons is about 19,000mL. So, 19,000 x 20 x 1M =...

You can't cold crash the Tri-conical because it won't fit in your fridge but the all rounder will? So, it's more like: A) The ability to temp control ferments and/or cold crash. vs. B) The ability to dump trub but NOT control temps. I'd pick A without any hesitation if that's the situation. I...

That's a great point. I know that I disabled that feature a while ago because it was causing some kind of problem, but since I forgot what that was, I just enabled it again. Edit... I remember now. People were picking something in the dropdown menu thinking it would stick through the entire...

I think warming and rousing the fermenter to get the yeast back up into the beer would help.

No one in the history of using these elements has ever had a problem with a splash hitting it. Spike uses them. Brew-Boss used to use them and I've sold thousands of them. Not one issue with a splash. If you're still concerned, put a purple broccoli rubberband around the joint. How did the...

One stage that may be picking up more oxygen is the fact that the beer will sit in the bottling vessel twice as long as you're filling bottles, because it takes longer to fill and cap bottles. Oxygen damage definitely kills hop aroma and flavor before it does anything else.

Right off the bat, you should know that one smack pack of yeast is not even close to enough under almost any circumstance. Couple that with the likelihood of the pack being some age greater than zero, the viability is even more impacted. Those packs start out as a 100B cells and drop about 20%...

That's one advantage to using small businesses. We don't hit the threshold for most states to require collection.

Yes, one pack left dated April 13th. Scoop it up on the site now even if you just select cash so we don't sell it.