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Hey folks, been lurking for a while and just joined this afternoon. Been brewing for a little over a year here in Lawrencetown. Mostly Cooper's IPA and Bitter kits, but brew my first "from scracth" extract+steeping grains recipe January 3rd and my first BIAB all grain last week.

Love beer, love the hobby and am excited to keep expanding my "operation"!

Did you find us through Jimmy's BIAB operation?

Sweet more Valley folks. Welcome.
HPhunter
Jeff

Yup, you valley folks will need to work on your own handle.

Welcome aboard!

Can't remember how I found BrewNosers. Been lurking for about a year off and on.

Found Jimmy's BIAB tutorial as a suggested post on HBT, read through it and then realized that he was local.
I plan on his cooler BIAB method this summer/fall. Right now I'm doing stove top 2.5 gallon batches and mashing in the oven. First I need a burner, then the cooler, then the 5 gallon all grain batches will start to flow. Gonna have to keep the Kits and mini-mashes going to maintain my pipeline for now.

Speaking of a burner, has anyone tried the red Martin burner Home Hardware sells? Picture looks solid, claims to be 65K BTU's for 75 bucks.

Welcome! How did the bag work out for you?

Jimmy wrote:Welcome! How did the bag work out for you?

Just mashing in a small pot, so I grabbed a 5 gallon paint strainer for my first few batches. Seemed to go well, went with whatever the NG crushers gap was and ended up with a little over 71% on a 90 minute mash. I plan to get to your setup between now and September, one piece at a time.

LTownLiquorPig wrote:Speaking of a burner, has anyone tried the red Martin burner Home Hardware sells? Picture looks solid, claims to be 65K BTU's for 75 bucks.

I've used that burner, but I prefer the burner that they sell at kent/rona/home depot (forget which, maybe all of em). it's 72k BTU for 60$. additionally, the oxygen valve thing on it is easily adjustable, while the one from home hardware needs to be unscrewed to be adjusted (unless that has changed in the last 3 years). The easy adjustment lets you keep the flame blue and efficient when the flow rate changes.

Also!

@CorneliusAlphonse: gotcha on the burner. We have a tiny Rona in Middleton that had a burner in the fall they were going to sell me for $48, but they couldn't tell me anything about it and I couldn't find anything about it online so I figured I'd wait. Haven't thought to try Kent, about to do that now.

Welcome Mike.

Found a 60,000 BTU burner at Rona for 59, talked them down to $48 and had a $20 gift card. First outdoor boil coming up this week. SWMBO will be happy, she just doesn't know it yet. Best $35 I've ever spent behind her back!