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  1. Barbarossa

    I want to lager in my garage this winter .. need blanket advice

    Maybe a reptile heating pad , or a few, could work...
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    Off-flavour in Pilsner - could it be the water?

    5 oz of hops for a five gallon pilsner seems like a lot. Havent seen how long you boiled. Pilsner needs a long boil to remove DMS ( that can cause of flavor) Have you tasted your water after the campden tablet? Maybe you need a special double dose of campden since your well water seem nasty. If...
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    temperature control for a 240 liter brew

    Wait a minute. Are you going to brew an extract bathtub beer?
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    My sanitation Question! whew-who! lol

    Before sanitation, what is your cleaning process?
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    3D printed Lord of the Rings Tap Tower

    This is really cool, I love it!
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    I'm pouring 90% gas, 10% foam...

    From my very recent experience, if it pours well (but slow) with barely no pressure, and it pours foam at serving pressure, it's related to the length of your tubing. If it pours only foam at every pressure, it may be overcarbed, your line can be dirty, your tap can be too hot (cold beer warm...
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    Coors lite Clone Recipe

    Worse than a cool guys are white knights that can't take a joke.
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    "American" Beer, What is it?

    It's actually a direct reference at BMC's brewing process. Take the cheapest grain you can find, calculate every bit of extra diastatic power, and replace as much grain as you can with the cheapest starch you can find, i.e rice. Then dilute your beer with about 50% water. The Babylonians would...
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    Please critique my english brown ale recipe

    Replace 2 row by MO. Throw the 2 row away.
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    "American" Beer, What is it?

    Like everything that has been corrupted by capitalism greed, I'd say cheap ingredients, cheap process, lack of respect for the trade and complete disregard for the customer satisfaction.
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    Need an idea of what to do with this

    It looks like a surprised alien with four eyes and a long nose. Maybe you can paint it and make "art".
  12. Barbarossa

    Beer is so Freaking Incredible

    People have been brewing beer for more than 9k years. Let's give respect to our elders!
  13. Barbarossa

    From buckets to conical, and bottles to kegs

    Doesn't a unitank means you can ferment, then carbonate and serve with from it? Saves the bottling am kegging?
  14. Barbarossa

    Safe to ferment in wood shop?

    Dust tend to go everywhere. I would loosely cover the airlock just in case.
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    Bottled beer didn't carbonate?

    I had to massage a few bottles a while ago. Basically, I raised the temperature to reactivate the yeast, then gently rolled the bottles, one by one, to put the yeast back in suspension.
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