Lawrence Brewers Guild

I was looking for beer stats, wondering if there was a brewery in every state (potential Untappd badge) and came across this site. http://www.beerinstitute.org/ they have a Brewer's Almanac, spreadsheet that has it ALL! http://www.beerinstitute.org/assets/uploads/Brewers_Almanac-_20131.xlsx sharing ...

I will not be, some silly little something day.
can arrange for alternate transfer time/place...

Clint

I would pay you for the 7 gallon pot and small immersion chiller (buddy starting up brewing)

Brown shirt could find use for the large chiller and the mash tun.

Chuck, looking at the picture on FB, I calculate (pi*d*#coils) that it is 50' of 1/2"...

Clint

USDA National Hop Report for 2010...
http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/cu ... 7-2010.pdf

Michigan hops must be a new and/or small thing, doesn't show up in last years USDA report.

220v, my brew partner, I am sure, is drooling. If not for the nice dry IPA i am sipping, i might be salivated... So this is a sparge-less system? What kind of mash efficiency are you getting getting? I suppose not enough brews yet... How do you like the BCS? So you were able to set up a 60/40 (prop...

I just got a 20# siphon tank of CO2 today for $17.76 (good year!)
at the Paxair in Lawrence.

(in the future, i might be able to fill small tanks for a nominal fee...)

Clint

Have you lost your access to Member's only sections of the Forum? All Memberships are for the calender year, with a month grace period, expiring January 31 of the following year. After a couple months we have to clean out non-members from the forum. We were a little late this year and just got to it...

Evidently Coke and Pepsi bottlers have plastic buckets that syrup comes in, I think in a 15ish and 45ish gallon sizes. I dont know any details of these buckets or availability, but if anyone knows someone with one of the soda bottles, it might be worth it...

Clint

WOW!
I was just looking through my old posts looking for the link referenced to see if they are still available. Low and behold now I see Swagman has made one! Excellent!
Now what sort of compensation/begging would it take to get one myself?

Clint

We got a new ice cream maker so I've been playing around with recipes. 12 oz Fade to Black 12 oz Cream (I used Iwig cream) 1/2 c sugar mix beer and sugar together until sugar has dissolved. Add cream and drop in ice cream maker. Wow, the Fade to Black is a mouth full even when it is half cream. Real...

I updated the Guild google calender...

Our first for-real grain milling was last weekend. 25 lbs of grain were crushed in 6 minutes 53 seconds. About 3.6 lbs per minute. Except for the flick of the screen to get the last 20 grains to fall, it was completely hands off. I want to find a big red plunger button or an aircraft style (or NOs) ...

Xan found this and wanted to share.
Map of winner by state from GABF.
http://flowingdata.com/2009/08/31/best- ... rica-2009/

I think that will work fine. Your step mash may be more of a ramp mash, as the element will only do so much. 3.4 BTU's per watt, x2000 watts= 6800 BTU's. If you have 7 gallons of water and 12 pounds of grain... call it 70 pounds, in the mash tun, and you want to raise the temp 15 degrees, say 150-16...

In our system, 110 volt is plenty of power. the 1200 watts being pulled by the element (a ~3500w 220v extra long element) is enough to maintain a constant temp for the whole mash cycle. I can even bring up the temp for mash out, but it is slow, less than 1 degree/minute, so a little fire under it he...