North Texas Homebrewers Association

I am aware of two calculations for yeast starters. There is the Chris White/Jamil Zainasheff model and the Kai Troester models ( https://braukaiser.com ). The White/Zainasheff model is based on a diminishing return where adding more starter wort ultimately gives you no more yeast growth. The Braukai...

I just saw this on Costco's website. Its a chest freezer that can also be a refrigerator. It has a way to drain condensate.

This might be better than a standard chest freezer used as a kegerator.

Here is the Costco site link: Costco Link

A couple of pics:

David,

That recipe sounds good. Please report back when you are drinking it.

Jimmy

I installed that extension.

From my experience, banana comes from pitching rate. Temperature has not made much difference for me. I grow yeast to a 75% of the normal ale yeast pitch rate of .75 million cells per ml of wort per degree plato. So it would be 0.5625 million cells per ml of wort per degree plato. I do oxygenate the...

I brewed a German Wheat (Hefeweizen) yesterday. My first brew in a year. I used Omega OLY-021 yeast, a first for me. I get score sheet comments about my Hefe needing more body so I have tried things in the past like using 2-row instead of Pilsner malt. I usually do a multi-step mash. This time I use...

The wheeled platform is for potted plants. The Amazon link for what I bought is below:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09JG ... UTF8&psc=1

I found a setting on the search function. I set the author name to zero characters for a search. So you can search all posts by putting a "*", the Asterisk wildcard character in the author name. Then set the "Limit Results to Previous" setting to one of the time frame options it ...

I found these wheeled platforms to put my Fermzillas on. There were on Homebrew Finds. Got them from Amazon. They work great. My 5 gallon Fermzilla was leaking so I took it apart and gave it a bath in my kitchen sink. Then reassembled it with lots of Keg lube. No leaks now. Wheels1.jpg Wheels2.jpg B...

There are multiple options under Quick links in the upper left: New Unread Unanswered Active You can also do an advanced search, the gear next the the search box in the upper right. You can select a time range in the search. But your have to put in a search term that must have at least 3 characters,...

I like the American IPA in Brewing Classic Styles.

The Limbo only had 4 entries in Ciders and Seltzers.

While I do enjoy being the Seltzer Master, I think we need to drop that category going forward.

Thoughts?

I did make a change to the email. The heading which is the post title and the featured image in the post are now hyperlinks you can click on.

Sorry about the test email I send. I forgot to disable the regular notification when I made the test post.

Here is a link to a site that has a water heating calculator, https://bloglocation.com/art/water-heat ... ergy-power.

It has three calculators to determine time, power and energy for heating water (or wort). I might help you think about electric brewing.

The Brewzilla is engineered by Kegland in Australia. Those guys have great ideas. I have the Fermzillas and really like them. The key to the Fermzillas is to watch all their videos! Here is a link to their overview of the Brewzilla gen 4, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfy0c321Pg4 . This system is ...

What do you think about the new Notification emails? The emails are customizable. I tried to make them like the old notifications. I can move stuff around and add or remove the fields.

What do you think?

For me personally, I like places with lots of traditional beer styles, i.e. not all hazy IPAs. I enjoy the sessionable beers. Four Bullets is a favorite. Bavarian Grill is good for German Bier. White Rock Ale House was good. Odd Muse usually has a couple of lagers. Londoner usually has London Pride....

How about jelly beans?

I moved this topic from Internal to External competitions.

How was the LOL competition? I was stuck at home with health issues.

Is the NTHBA's involvement worth supporting LoL in the future?

I moved this topic from the External to the Internal Competitions Forum.

Thanks Smitty for posting this. I should have done it.

I did not do much extract brewing so I am no expert. I always heard that you wanted to use a light LME and use the mini-mash grain for all the darker grain contributions. So I am questioning the LME Dark. Also note that the Munich LME is only 50% Munich, the rest being a base malt. Let it rip. See h...

More of a Beersmith comment. I think I am ok with the magic that goes on inside Beersmith. At least this adjustment has the ability to control it. I wish all of these adjustments that Beersmith makes were documented somewhere. For instance, what goes on in the scaling procedure? There is a checkbox ...

I am building a recipe in Beersmith. When I look at the calculated attenuation, it seems too high. I found a setting in "Options->Advanced" that adjusts fermentability based on Mash temperature. Turning off Adjust FG for Mash Temp made Beersmith act as I expected. I do believe that differe...

Or even a Bluebonnet Planning Meeting.

This is a link to a podcast by The Bru Lab over at Brulosophy. It was a discussion of making N/A beer with a technique called Cold Contact Fermentation. Sounded interesting.

http://thebrulab.libsyn.com/episode-065 ... ian-gibson