Lawrence Brewers Guild

Frank - yea, you can send it using paypal, I'll send you a PM.

Matt - anytime Thursday is fine.

Sounds good. You all should coordinate a carpool or just have one person pick it all up (since Gardner is around 45-60 mins away from you).

36" x 48" x 35" (D x L x H)

It's time to pass this on. I would like it to go to another LBG member if possible. I'm moving and am getting rid of some brewing stuff (see my other post). This thing works great as a fermentation cooler. As in my above post (Oct 28, 2008, wow!), I added a wood top and a temp controller. The 3rd pi...

Taken care of. Thanks Frank.

I always seem to have something come up on meeting nights and don't make many meetings. I have an overdue book I need to return to the guild library. Anyone in Lawrence that can take my guild library book and check it in for me, please? I'll be in Lawrence today around 12pm-3pm. PM me if you can hel...

It is my understanding that pumpkin actually lends very little flavor to the finished beer and that most (if not all) 'pumpkin' flavor comes from the spices. However, I do plan to use canned pumpkin (in the mash) in the beer I'll be doing at the end of the month.

Funny name for the beer, I like it. I still think your low eff is caused by the single braid regardless of your no sparge technique. Since you are using a pump to recirc. the entire mash without stirring the mash to suspend the sugars I think you are getting some channeling. If you have $15 and 45 ...

I brewed my first wheat beer yesterday. As I was brewing it started hailing for about 30 seconds or so, so the beer is aptly named: Hail of a Wheat! :D I added 3 handfuls of rice hulls. I didn't have a problem with a stuck mash, but my liquid amounts were lower than I was shooting for. I forgot to t...

Just out of curiosity, I noticed you are using a float valve and a single braid. So I have a question and a comment. Are you batch or fly sparging? The float valve is used to maintain level water during a fly sparge. If you are fly sparging with that single braid you are leaving a lot of goodies in...

I'm selling my container hops as I haven't had the time to deal with them this year and won't next year either. With a possible move to AZ in the near future, I don't want to take them with me either. The were planted Spring 2010 and the first year didn't produce much. This Summer was brutal to them...

I didn't have a washer of suitable size on hand so I fabricated one using a dip-tube o-ring inside a post o-ring. Works great and I know it's food safe. ;) Not limited by the teeth now for positioning, nice! Pics (click an image for a larger version): Exploded view http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2381014/BC...

Here I go again. :D While you are waiting on parts, try a rubber washer between the teeth. You will have enough friction to hold the float arm. Great idea, thanks! John Blichmann emailed and said the one I have is an earlier model and asked where/when I got it. After calling Brewmasters Warehouse, ...

Excellent. Having never worked with your controller, it appears that you have it close. I must have misread your statement. If you have your control loop tuned too slow, it won't do a good job of catching process upsets and will have a slow oscillation around the setpoint or run with an offset. Sou...