BreathingHeat
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Upon my AWESOME girlfriend buying me a brewing setup for my 30th, I did my first BIAB batch the weekend before last (20 liters of American IPA
). All things considered, I think it went fairly well.
Definite mistakes:
Equipment questions-
I am preparing to buy a kegerator and a couple cornie kegs. At this point I can go in the direction of ball locks or pin locks, as I will have to buy the connectors for the kegerator lines. Are there advantages to either? I'm thinking that ball lock cornie kegs are more common. Suggestions?
Where is a good place to buy a Co2 gas bottle? I do not want to hire one.
Kind of siphon to rack the beer from the fermenter to the keg? Where to buy?
Thanks for the help!!!
Here are some brewing pictures:
Key ingredients
Super fresh New Zealand Cascade flowers.
Definite mistakes:
- Left the lid of the pot on for most of the boil. Needless to say, we didn't boil off as much shit as we should have.
- One of the hoses popped off of "Copper Cobra" (homemade wort chiller) during chilling. We then reverted to an ice bath, which took a few hours. We did not have the top of the fermenter on during this time, but it was inside.
- When racking from the pot to the primary we accidentally added some of the sediment at the bottom of the pot. It was being passed through a wire mesh strainer that caught most of the nasty shit.
- Forgot to take the OG
- The primary got up to 23 a few hours after we pitched the yeast. It was bubbling like all hell by the time we got up. It has been at a steady 19-21 ever since
Equipment questions-
I am preparing to buy a kegerator and a couple cornie kegs. At this point I can go in the direction of ball locks or pin locks, as I will have to buy the connectors for the kegerator lines. Are there advantages to either? I'm thinking that ball lock cornie kegs are more common. Suggestions?
Where is a good place to buy a Co2 gas bottle? I do not want to hire one.
Kind of siphon to rack the beer from the fermenter to the keg? Where to buy?
Thanks for the help!!!
Here are some brewing pictures:
Key ingredients
Super fresh New Zealand Cascade flowers.