Lawrence Brewers Guild

I used 4 oz (bagged) in 5 gal keg for two weeks then jumped to new keg. It had a lot of chocolate character.
jim

It is easier to carbonate your keg when it is cold because the CO2 is more soluble at lower temps (thus it takes lower pressure to become dissolved in the beer). Once the beer is carbed, its carbed. That's why we talk about volumes of CO2 being dissolved in the beer, that's a measure that doesn't in...

Jensen wrote:
btw, Empyrean beers are available in Kansas now.

I wondered about that, thanks for the correction, Jeff.
jim

We went to Omaha (to visit my daughter) and wound up at the festival (imagine that!). Lots of rain kept the crowds down and the temps cool. No lines for beer. They advertised over 80 craft breweries, and I think there were only a couple of no shows. Event was in the parking lot of Dicks Sporting Goo...

Future reference, you can always drop them at Jensen's Liquor.
jim

The "homebrew" or "corny kegs" (for Cornelius MFG) have a lid which can be removed to fill and clean the keg. The beverage can be racked from the fermenter into the keg through the open lid or "jumped" from another keg (beverage out to beverage out) with minimal exposur...

Not sure that their attempts to ramp up production didn't contribute to the "quality problem" they had with this years edition.
Sometimes things aren't as simple as they ought to be.
jim

Joe Yoder wrote:http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/0 ... anvolution
Lots of interesting comments concerning BPA content in cans.
Joe

So, just drink homebrew!
And, I'll take a chance on an occasional Dale's Pale.
jim

Congrats, Brick.
You've got a right to be proud of this.
jim

Cool. Thanks, Steve.
Wonder if it was stow-away wasps that carried the lager yeast to Europe from Patagonia?
jim

Thanks for the update, Andy.
jim

Gotta have a leak somewhere, 10# cylinder will charge a lot of kegs. When you say beer in the line, you mean the tap line, right?
Is your cylinder inside or outside the keezer?
Spray bottle with starsan can find leaks.
jim

Made this up: 5.5 gal 70% efficiency OG 1.051 FG 1.010 IBU 30.6 SRM 12.2 ABV 5.3% Pale malt 2L 5.5 lb Munich 10L 4.5 lb Cara 50 1.0 lb Cara 120 3.0 oz Mash at 150 dF 60 min Magnum 15.2 IBU @ 60 min Styr Goldings 3.3 IBU @ 10 min Cascade 5.4 IBU @ 5 min Palisade 2.5 IBU @ 5min Simcoe 3.6 IBU @ 5 min ...

You might check out this site for bulkhead sets.
http://www.bargainfittings.com/index.ph ... ry&path=46
jim

25% Rye, 60% pale/2 row, 5% CaraMunich 40, 5% carafa, +/- wheat or carafoam.
Nugget or Columbus bittering 1/2 60m, 1/2 30m; Cascade, Amarillo, Galaxy, Simcoe or Citra starting at 30 and then every 5 plus knock out.
Yeast?