Recent content by bike2brew

I sent in an inquiry about the backorder status of the Spike condenser lid. Have yall heard back from them yet?

Gottcha. I have my brown ale recipe posted on brewers friend @ Hungry Brown Dog for your interest. As I say, I have the flavor, color, and clear separation from the Porter/Stout style, so hopefully these minor tweaks will solidify the recipe. Going to place an order for my grain bill...

Ok that would explain why my predicted results were lacking. Where does one find that information?

I working on a brown ale recipe. The flavor is where I want it but head and persistence still needs a tweak. I used midnight wheat for color and protein. Does this have the same contribution as white wheat? Perhaps add the white and match the midnight?

HB IPA up in The Shady Grove following an afternoon of work on our fence project.

My closet has American Amber, Brown Ale, Stout, and IPA. I am also still sitting on the remaining bottles from a 5 gallon Triple I brewed almost 2 years ago.

I routinely sample my beers directly from the conditioning closet where the temp hovers around 65.

yes, game changing! and always fresh.

I am also recently discovering the economy of building a custom grain bill where my ounces are combined with the pounds rather than hanging on to small quantity grains and wondering what to do with them.

Thanks. I have an order on backorder with you right now. So stick around at least until it is filled. Yes, I am glad to send businees your way for items my LHBS doesn't stock or maintain predictably.

Four gallon Amber ale on Saturday. Still dialing in my SVBS. Pre-boil gravity came in low despite steady mash temp @152. Pre-boil volume @ 6.5 gallon. Finished with 4 gallon @ 1.053, rather than predicted 5 gallon @ 1.059. I'm thinking tweaks needed to more grain and less water, increasing...

Sounds good. Otherwise I say brew what you will drink. I have had my Amber que'd up for a couple weeks so it a no brain'r

Scaling up my Hops Kitchen Amber to 5 gallon AG recipe in the SVBS this weekend. Looking for the consitsency of the automated temp control in the mash and boil. I am hopeful this will result in minor improvements to my 2.5 gallon BIAB-stovetop efforts w/ respect to production numbers and...

You can't close the doors when the walls cave in

Yes, I too float my tilt in water/star San to make sure it's on and reading @ zero before it's in the wort and I start the logging. This has worked well enough without having to do a calibration.