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Nov 29	comment	How to connect my immersion chiller to the faucet Worth mentioning that in the end, I just got a 3/8" garden hose, with a connector to a standard hose fitting. The 3/8" ID hose fits onto my chiller, and then I just connect that to the hose. Also got an in-line shutoff valve, so I can turn the flow off without having to run down to the hose faucet outside.
Nov 29	accepted	How to connect my immersion chiller to the faucet
Nov 29	accepted	What is the minimum amount of time required for a yeast starter?
Nov 17	asked	What is the minimum amount of time required for a yeast starter?
Oct 12	accepted	Any reason not to boil for longer?
Oct 3	awarded	Commentator
Oct 3	comment	Any reason not to boil for longer? Never done a brew in that style. It's entirely possible that you're only extracting sugar and not flavour in the last runnings, but then if that's true, surely it wouldn't negatively impact your beer if you boil off all the water in the last runnings (it would be just like throwing in some dextrose).
Oct 2	comment	Any reason not to boil for longer? I'll test this next brew-day; the fair experiment would be to boil the final runnings down to the same gravity as the original runnings, and then compare. I'm interested to know (in theory) what difference there could be between them.
Sep 30	comment	Any reason not to boil for longer? Well, of course they taste "watered down"; the later runnings contain less sugar (and less of everything else that is extracted, both good and bad) and more water. That fact alone doesn't mean that you'll be left with inferior wort once you've boiled the later runnings down to a thicker consistency.
Sep 29	awarded	Supporter
Sep 29	comment	Any reason not to boil for longer? Good info. Can you elaborate on why the subsequent runnings are "lower quality"? Others have commented on tannin extraction and colour concentration, are there other things to consider as well?
Sep 28	comment	Any reason not to boil for longer? Just found this article: books.google.com/… which mentions that Cantillon evaporate off a minimum of 2k gallons from 9.5k gallons of wort. "Traditional lambic brewers boil their wort for four to six hours. Aside from condensing the wort, it also helps extract more bitterness from hops and counteract the high protein levels brought in by unmalted wheat. Over the course of a long boil, proteins coagulate and drop out of suspension." This doesn't contradict your point at all, but it's an interesting perspective.
Sep 27	asked	Any reason not to boil for longer?
Aug 6	comment	How to connect my immersion chiller to the faucet As mentioned above, I was hoping to avoid having to go to a store in the hopes that they have the piece I need. I was hoping to find a way of identifying the part I need ahead of time.
Aug 6	comment	How to connect my immersion chiller to the faucet @baka, I couldn't see those on the Home Depot website, did you just take your aerator in and match the threads?
Aug 6	comment	How to connect my immersion chiller to the faucet Yep, that's the sort of thing I linked to in my original question. I was more looking for suggestions for how to get the right piece (as there are a number of different faucet thread dimensions, and I regularly see people complaining that the one-size-fits-all didn't).
Aug 5	asked	How to connect my immersion chiller to the faucet
Jun 27	awarded	Scholar
Jun 27	accepted	Measuring yeast activity by collecting CO2
Jun 27	comment	Measuring yeast activity by collecting CO2 @Dale -- hadn't seen one that cheap, I might look into that. That flowmeter project looks interesting as well, I'm not sure if you'd really gain more my having the exact volume expelled rather than just the number of bubbles.