Recent content by Bobby_M

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.

It's probably a little of both. We just signed on for lower UPS rates, but I'm guessing Morebeer does at least 4x the shipping that we do.

I'll be the first to admit that we can't really compete on price with shipping to the West Coast on ingredients especially when Morebeer has a CA warehouse.

I've made an effort to participate here as a homebrewer more than anything else and selling really isn't my thing. Here's a bit more of a comprehensive list: Weyermann BestMalz Avangard Briess Rahr Crisp Simpsons Muntons Dingeman's Malt/Grain is always going to be the shipping go/no go for...

I'm sure you're all seeing systematic closing of many of your local homebrew supply stores recently (if not a year or two ago). The ripples of homebrewing shrinkage are even being felt via some larger mailorder houses like High Gravity and Northern Brewer deciding to close their walk in stores...

Don't get me wrong, I'm not leaning on BJCP as the end all authority, an outdated version no less. They've even explicitely said that while it was once a good example, they're commercializing and making it cheaper with adjuncts etc, which is probably why Negro Modelo was stripped as a commercial...

The minor error in the original plan is that recirculating mash liquor/wort back over the grain is not technically a sparge. That's to say, you pick up no new sugar when the gravity of the liquid passing the grain is already at equilibrium. The efficiency gain of a sparge relies on dilution and...

It's hard to see for sure but it looks like it's coming from where the threaded base of the post is welded to the keg body. In other words, nothing to do with any gaskets. You might want to cut some of that rubber away from the post so you can see what's going on.

This is from the 2008 version of BJCP guidelines..