Recent content by t2000kw

When there is a problem, Brad (the developer) contacts the beta team, which I am part of, and asks if we have time, to test the fix. The last fix put in place was to fix the timer feature. It may actually take more then 24 hours, but it does not take very long, either. And no, the beta team...

I upgraded to 3 for no particular reason. The upgrade cost was minimal. I do not care much for cloud storage and can use my own storage if I wish to do so. I don't care for the subscription model so I got the basic program that will not require any payments until there is a major version...

No need to be sorry about it being in seppo (yes, I'm familiar with the reference, strange combination of words to get there, though). :-) Not everyone here thinks the US is the only country in the world. But probably most think it's the only one that matters. Not so here (me). I figure it's an...

I actually had a work friend give me a large amount of frozen ground elk (American elk) and some Virginia whitetail deer meat. I've been given deer for the last few years so I haven't had the need to go hunting, but the Virginia whitetail are plentiful where I live. You just sit still in a...

The acid component in the mixture discussed in the podcast makes sense. A chemist in one o four brewing groups always claimed that bleach wasn't a good sanitizer. That must be why--it needs a higher pH to work.

I've been using iodophor myself for at least 20 years now. It works well. I posted this thread just to see if Star San could be substituted with something less expensive. It's not expensive as such, but if there's something that works as well land is cheaper, I could recommend it to newcomers to...

I like the prices you pay for these in AU much better than the Jerry cans I find here (at least so far). Usually you are gouged/overcharged for goods and postage and we get things cheaper.

TwoCrows, As a Jehovah's Witness I find your avatar quite funny! I saved the pic. Hope you don't mind. So you're saying that these have headspace built in? That makes it easy to pick one knowing that. Hopefully they'll be the same in the US.

Hope it's not an infection and that the flavor mellows with time. I made a pumpkin beer a few years ago and it's never going to mellow. I consider it a failed experiment. A friend liked it enough to take some off my hands but the rest is going down the drain as soon as I need to use the keg...

I live in the US and though I've seen these before online, I don't remember what a cube is called (what term to search for) on places like Amazon.com, ebay, etc. I'd like to try this method of cooling sometime (AU homebrewers have come up with some interesting and useful brewing techniques)...

I'm not proclaiming this as a cheaper alternative to Star San, but reading the ingredients of this product and the PDF document about sanitation seems to me to suggest that this stuff will work like Star San at about $13 per gallon, and it's available at farm supply stores (this one is in the US...

Please be aware that spent grains with hop residue in it (if you add any hops in with the mash itself) can kill dogs, in particular greyhounds, though apparently it's somewhat toxic to all dogs. Greyhounds have a small liver compared to their body size, so they don't detoxify some things very...

In the summertime, even with the best sanitation practices, it's possible to pick up an infection from the air while the wort is cooling. I am a sanitation fanatic, and I use an iodophor treatment for my fermenter right before I put the wort into it after chilling it down to just above room...

I had thought about that. The first thing I thought of when I saw the picture of the ones used in the distiller was the ones used in aquariums, mainly saltwater aquariums. I'd bet that they are the same thing. If I get some of those, I'd also have some for the Hot Magnum filter I got at a...

Come to think of it, I usually add them AFTER the boil has started to keep the timing "correct" but I guess I could estimate how long they are in near-boiling water and time it from that point for the bittering hops. How do you do it to get the appropriate amount of bittering without getting...