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Sorry @wjb663 I didn't find an answer. My son's interest in root beer has faded significantly so it dropped of my to do list.

Reporting back on my dilution situaish. I ended up with 3 conditions. Undiluted lower ABV beer that I didn't change, diluted higher ABV beer, and undiluted higher ABV beer left over due to the excess volume. I calculated the amount of dilution water I needed to add to the 7% beer, boiled, and...

Well thank you all for the great replies. Quite a bit of diversity and all opinions were well reasoned and thoughtful. The beer is a double batch of a 2-Hearted-ish beer that I will be kegging into 2 corny kegs. One hit 7% and the other 6.8%. I think it would be best if I left one alone if...

My beer fermented really well and ended up stronger than I wanted. OG was 1.065. FG is 1.012. ABV is 7.0% A calculator showed me that adding .84 gallons to 6.5 G of 7% beer will result in 6.2% beer. Easy enough. questions: - Is it 'easy enough'? - Do I need to treat the water to...

I and some friends have been buying from Ted Hausotter Hop Heaven 541-980-2487 http://hopheaven.beer/ He does whole hop and pellet hops. We usually get a bunch of pounds each and then split up pounds of varieties we don't each want full pounds of. His close out hops (well all his hops)...

I brewed this back in September and I believe it turned out really great. The beer pours super dark and the head is really nice - nicer than I've been able to do in a while. I believe the malt comes through very solidly and my Chinook turned out to be really good still as it imparts as much...

I'll check out the leak possibility. On one hand I hope it's not a leak but on the other hand if I knew - that would be better than not knowing. As for the taste - I'm no aficionado - I was going for something like Sprecher which a friend of mine likes. I'll say this - it is pretty sweet...

I mixed up my 3rd batch of Gnome Root Beer extract last weekend, cooled it off, gently rolled the keg on my lap for 5 mins as I put 30PSI CO2 to it, then put it in the kegerator at 4*C for the last 5 days. It is dead flat after checking it yesterday and then today. I push the root beer at...

I've been searching for a thread like this because I am having a similar problem. Mine is with a 2.5 G Root beer I mixed up this past weekend. My 3 gallon keg has been on 30PSI at 5*C for 5 days and it comes out dead flat. I have 30' of hose, dispense at 30 PSI through a picnic tap. It does...

troglodytes, Do you cold steep the Carafa and Midnight Wheat and add later in the boil? I'm on board with dhubbarducsd in using Chinook, 'cept I have some that I've had a while and want to get rid of. I'll try thehaze's schedule but I'll up it a bit for my potentially old hops. (I do store...

I know it has been a while but do you know that thread size on the 1/4 turn valve? I like your idea and would like to order the valve at the same time. Did you get a stainless valve? Did you buy it at Granger or McMaster Carr or locally? Thanks

I have not had a stuck mash with this grain bill. I have a 72 QT Coleman Extreme cooler with a 3-tube copper manifold I made myself. Two things I do to help avoid stuck mashes are using Rice hulls and what I call 'conditioning' my grain. I spray the grains with a spray bottle - a lot - the...

Silver, Not sure what you think is over the edge but I have about 12.5% of Chocolate Malt and Roasted Barley in my Milk Stout: Ingredients: ------------ Amt Name Type # %/IBU 14 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM)...

I don't know for sure that they are dormant. They may not be active, but they may not be totally inactive either. Another thing JZ said was that you don't want to lager lower than 40*F. I would guess this is because they still have some activity left in them? Like they actually do some work...

I just heard on the 12-19-16 episode of Brew Strong that quickly crashing lagers to clarify and/or hit lager temperatures stresses the yeast and can produce esters. I personally am going to try to slowly drop my next lager after the D-rest to try to avoid this. Plus I'll do some more looking...