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• Posted in thread: Can a blowoff go above the fermenter? Or: What good is my lagerator's freezer? on 04-27-2013 at 07:40 PM
  Yeah, that's a good point. I was wondering if a check valve could prevent that?

• Posted in thread: Can a blowoff go above the fermenter? Or: What good is my lagerator's freezer? on 04-27-2013 at 07:13 PM
  Long story short: Bought a nice used fridge, old fridge got cleaned up and is heading to
  retirement as a lagerator.This particular fridge has a freezer on top with a separate door and
  auto-defrost, wh...

• Posted in thread: Yeast immobilization: magic beans of fermentation on 04-21-2013 at 07:32 PM
  I can't anyone who sells ProMalic on a homebrew scale, but you can get schizosaccaromyces pombe
  from scientific supply companies. I wonder how close we could get to homemade ProMalic. The
  cider maker ...

• Posted in thread: Beer Connoisseur article on traditional Lithuanian brewing. No-boil + hop tea? on 03-19-2013 at 03:21 PM
  Thank you, marsav. This is more than I could have hoped for.

• Posted in thread: Does this water report look weird? on 03-19-2013 at 03:16 PM
  Thanks for the info, everyone! I've barely scratched the surface of water chemistry, so I
  wasn't sure what to make of this.

• Posted in thread: Does this water report look weird? on 03-05-2013 at 11:54 PM
  From Ward Labs:pH 7.3Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) Est, ppm 179Electrical Conductivity, mmho/cm
  0.30Cations / Anions, me/L 2.7/2.8 ppmSodium, Na 7Potassium, K 2Calcium, Ca 37Magnesium, Mg
  6Total Hardne...

• Posted in thread: Using lipase in beer? on 02-03-2013 at 02:26 PM
  So homebrewers like to throw in neat little adjuncts, like nuts or baked goods or coconut, that
  are unfortunately filled with fat, leading to some kind of rancidity. Since lipase is readily
  available ...

• Posted in thread: Deliberately cultivating an autolytic flavor? on 12-23-2012 at 08:15 PM
  I was thinking about taking some slurry from a fully attenuated beer, killing it, and tossing
  into the beer when there isn't so much activity so it won't all get cleaned up. I was just
  wondering how t...

• Posted in thread: Deliberately cultivating an autolytic flavor? on 12-23-2012 at 07:54 PM
  I was wondering what kind of accent a very, very small amount would bring to a smoked beer.

• Posted in thread: Deliberately cultivating an autolytic flavor? on 12-23-2012 at 07:50 PM
  That "meaty" taste from autolysis...Has anyone tried getting that on purpose? If I threw a
  couple tablespoons of yeast slurry into the boil, would that give me a slight vegemite taste,
  or would the li...