New Equipment

I picked up a few new items this month to enhance the work I've been doing.

I visited morebeer.com mainly because they have decent prices and free-shipping on most items.  I picked up the following:

Beer Bottling Tree
Sanitizer Injector
4 oz. Star-San No-Rinse
Wort Chiller with tubing

I also visited the local home brew store: beerbrew.com.

I picked up a new Hydrometer (I broke our old one when washing.)

I also picked up the ingredients to brew my Pale Ale, (which I'm making some modifications to and doing some experimentation with different yeasts), ingredients to brew my Hefeweizen (which I'm also tweaking a bit), and 2 3.5 gal. Better Bottle fermenters.


I mainly wanted to pick up the 2 fermenters so I can split up 5 gallon batch of beer and try different yeast strains.  This will allow me to hone in on exactly what I'm trying to produce much quicker and, still be producing the same volume of beer.

I also brewed my new Hefeweizen recipe and had a chance to try out the wort chiller.  It worked great.  15 minutes of running cold water through it brought it down from 200 F to 78 F.

More details on the Hefeweizen brew to come.