Lawrence Brewers Guild

Hi Orval, I'd love to take that 40# off your hands but I'm a little uncertain what you mean by 'old style' and 'not opd'. Can I still fill/exchange it at a praxair?

Wow, that was....long. And personal.

Thanks for sharing Matt, I hope you got that off your chest.

I have a similar setup to the first two pics but with 2x4s for the collar and a 15 ft^3 freezer. I like it a lot, I'm able to keep 4 kegs, 1 carboy and lots and lots of bottles cold, all at once. I don't have the multi-pressure system though.

It's hard to mess up stouts and porters. It'll be great. Just work on your bottling technique, re: the other thread you started.

I'm with Jim. It'd better be 20oz or it ain't a pint.

Why .5 then? You're getting the sediment and bacteria (which the city should take care of anyway) but the dissolved mineral count of the water would be largely unaffected. I assume you use activated charcoal as well?

Are you sure you meant .5? Most household ones I see are 5 or 10 and .5 is damn near sterilization quality.

What do people use to filter their brewing water? I've looked at several options, mostly whole-house jobbers or RV externals that I would rig to my garage wall or something. To filter chlorines, I need a carbon filter, yes? And chloramines are also filtered using carbon but at a much slower flow rat...

Oh, sure. JWL had massive problems, no doubt. Their yeast selection, my biggest complaint, was absolutely atrocious and wildly out of date. I purchased a 3638 a few weeks ago that was from March!

Also, where is your basement and when do you generally leave for the day for long periods of time?

I was always under the belief that oxygen and UV radiation were the main contributors to decreased shelf life of hops. Are you saying that the UV is not a huge concern to begin with or them being stored at the back of a store, in an opaque-sided fridge reduces this risk?

I went to Brew Lab yesterday. Not a crazy huge selection of grains but very decent and good prices. Good selection of yeast and hops too but they buy the hops in bulk and repackage in clear vacuum seal bags. Probably not the best for long term storage.

Do I need an invite to the group on Fb?

I don't know how many people knew or care but JWL on 15th closed down. Kinda crappy for me, they were my grain mill!

Anyway, are Bacchus and HomebrewProShoppe the only other stores around?

I purchased a SS 1/2" ball valve to make a weldless connection out of my boil kettle but I've been a little stuck on how to screen out the hops and protein break. I've heard very mixed things about bazooka screens but they are the easiest, cheapest solution. I've heard they work ok for small to...

Congratulations! Welcome to the club. How did you cool the wort that it took 24 hours to cool to 60? And don't be mistaken, that wait will be well worth it when you're drinking your own cold beer!