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[BTDT]

Corny kegs! Just remember, stick to either ball lock or pin lock; they are not interchangeable

I used to buy "kits", but started making up my own stuff(nice Sierra Nevada clone), and others. Maple Syrup Stout is good...I use Miller's book, and of course Pappazian's.

Buddies of mine opened a home brew store locally some years back. They have sold, but another gentleman has kept the business going. The store has a really good inventory.

Any time you're ready, give a holler

Wow Robert, if your that talented, you should be brewing your own bio-diesel too, just don't get the two mixed up and forget which goes into what.

 

[teg]

That's a great brewing setup!!! I quit a few years back after my 600th gallon (that's a lot of memories... & calories ) Quit after becoming friends with a couple of head brewers at local breweries... The costs of their kegs were about $10/$15 more then what I spent on brewing. I ended up giving or trading most of my brew stuff away so I did not have to look at it. Kegs are the only way to go... had 16 in the height of my brewing.

 

[bigballer]

my buddy and i were going to brew up a SNPA clone tonight but he cancelled on me, we'll try it again this weekend. i've done some porters, ales, hefe's but for some reason they always come out tasting a bit odd, we're really beginners compared to most home brewers, this time we're going to use a 6.5gl glass carboy for the primary on a 5gl batch. should give it enough headroom for the full-on greusen (sp??) without busting it's cap. i think part of the problem with the last brews was that plastic primary. i would really like to get a stainless primary but at a cost of $500 for a small one it's a bit out of budget unless we were in the business of selling kegs. you have a nice setup robert. we might get into mash later but for now it's all about the extract beers.

 

[bigballer]

After cooking for an hour, the raw beer is chilled to about 75 degrees, cool enough to pitch yeast in to . These carboys then get an airlock, and go in the house.

how do you chill the wort? do you ice bath or do you have the piping with cold circulating water? i have only used an ice bath and it seems to take forever to cool down to pitchable temp..

 

[RobertN]

how do you chill the wort? do you ice bath or do you have the piping with cold circulating water? i have only used an ice bath and it seems to take forever to cool down to pitchable temp..

I have two chillers. They are just copper tube, connected to a garden hose. I did them so long ago, I can't remeber how much tubing I used. One I made for 5 gallon batches. The second uses more tube, for 10 gallon batches. I thin the 10-gallon one is 1/4" tube, and 50' long, that was wrapped around a soda keg to form it.

Sometimes, if I'm industrious, I'll put the small chiller in and ice chest full if ice and water. I'll hook the garden hose to that, then run a second hose from that to the main chiller in the beer/wort. Then a third hose for the runoff. It chills pretty quickly, but takes more setup, and ice.

I like to use glass. It is easier to sanitize. Plastic will hold odd flavors, while they can be washed out of a glass carboy.

PM me; I have a couple SNPA type recipes for extract batches...

When we brewed a week ago, we grabbed a small keg of Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale. It was good