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Can you get a brewing bucket? They are usually cheap and 6 to 7 gallons. You'll need a couple of gallons of head space when fermenting or you will make a big mess on the floor. Only other thing I used was what is called a blow-off tube. It's like a siphon tube but as wide as the opening of the...

Funny you brought all this up, I'm about to research making a beer for my nephew as a wedding present (get married at the end of July). I just realized the recipes I have are all on my old decommissioned PC, I think I need to resurrect those in the next few days before they get lost. I lost 150+...

You can actually use a brew bucket or a Speidel type fermenter, just so you can airlock it. It will have, and must have, plenty of open room on top for the kraeusen to develop (it will on top of the beer) as it ferments. You don't need to worry about excess air space until it's done fermenting...

Sorry, worked late... Dave, I've never done the brew in bag, what I do is add about 1 1/4 qts of water to each pound of grain, bring the temp up to scarification temp in a large brew pot (around 150-152*F for a stout), hold until the starches convert to sugar (45 minutes to 1 1/4 hours in an...

Back door cool front came from the north, nice and breezy and cool today. It actually rained a bit yesterday evening, though the lightning/thunder terrorized the dog. Grilled up some fish tacos for lunch using some cajun spice I used for spicy chicken sandwiches for last nights dinner. Made a...

My sister must be feeling better after a knee operation, she's scanning some old images she got from my Step-father. My Mom and Dad's wedding day! We're seeing my younger Son in my Dad's jaw lines...

Home alone, me and the doggie. Had some frozen shrimps in the freezer, so decided some shrimp scampi would help keep the vampires and my wife away, lol. Served on some bucatini. Yum!

Wings!

I need that cap!

I just hope my kids are willing to change my depends, lol.

LOL. My neighbor Robin takes care of her 96 yr old mom, I try to take her pizza and pulled pork whenever I can. She gave up her life to take care of her mom (quit her job etc) so I try and honor that since it is so rare these days... Plus, she likes my experiments!

Beautiful day again, only issue is that we need rain and there isn't any in the forecast for the next 10 days. Playing with my food as I usually do, today was a dough experiment using the KettlePizza at 800*F temps. So lowered the hydration of my doughs, one set 24 hours in fridge with 00 flour...

Beautiful day here, will be nice when I fire up the charcoal in the kettle for some pit beef for sandwiches. Put a burger on the grill for lunch and sorta forgot about it, fortunately the grill was set on medium heat. Sauteed some portabella shrooms and onion. Very simple and very satisfying...

Hmmm, must have been national sourdough discard pizza dough day yesterday or something....simple marinara with anchovies and finished off with some grated parma grana. Moved the steel up to the mid oven level, averaged around 600*F at the start of the cook.

Did a test pizza for lunch. Did my normal steel on the bottom, cordierite stone up higher. Turns out this new oven has an exposed top (broiler) element, and it made a big difference. With the oven set at 550 for 90 minutes, steel ran at 530-ish, stone on top was 620-630 range. Still cooked the...

First cook in the oven. Very enjoyable!

Sounds like you are on the program I have used on past batches, you'll be good, just hit it with O if you think it starts stinking too much down the road!

Bought a new lawn tractor a few weeks ago, then started having issues with my ancient laptop, so I bought a new one. On Wednesday evening, while setting up the new computer, noticed the oven didn't go above 320*F...so now have a new low end oven (LG). Doing tests on the temperature range when...

I think you are fine using either, I like both of them. If you have some $$ try one for the first batch, the other for the next batch. Just take care of the yeast during fermentation and you'll be just fine. There is a short pdf on rehydrating yeast and feeding it during fermentation that may...

Gorgeous day today! Happy Mama's Day for all the Mom's out there! Nice shot over the refuse containers, lol.