Archive for the ‘Equipment’ Category
Sunday, September 21st, 2008
For dark beers or beers with a specific gravity greater than 1.060, in my experience, a blow off tube is need to keep from having an overflowing mess.
Here is a picture of a porter that is only 24 hours into fermentation. You can see the amount of gunk ...
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Sunday, September 21st, 2008
Brewing outside can be a really fun experience. It saves time for a number of reasons. First, there is is less cleanup to do before hand and afterward. Second, the water boils a lot faster than on a stove. I have waited 45 minutes to boil 3 ...
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
After reading about the benefits of wort chillers and seeing the prices I took it upon myself to build an immersion wort chiller. It takes about 30 minutes and a trip to the hardware store. No special tools are needed beyond a crescent wrench.
An immersion chiller works ...
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Sunday, July 27th, 2008
When calculating the cost of a batch of beer, it is easy to overlook the little items like sanitizer, bottle caps, clarifier, priming sugar, and specialty items like burton/gypsum salts or Irish moss. For those of us who keg our beer, don't forget we have to pay for CO2 recharges ...
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Here is an inventory of essential brewing equipment you will need for your first batch. With this setup you can only brew one batch at a time. This is about as 'tight' as you can get. Many of the items can be found used if you have the time to ...
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