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Do you know a thread/video i could read/watch that can answer my question about RO water mineral and pH calculations? Clearly i don't have a way to write here all i read about this thing, but i didn't found an answer. My plan is to split the base malt in two halfs, and add the caramel malts in...

Well, lower than my usual 5-6% abv beers, so clearly it have something to do with the grist weight. Also, i pour over sparge, while mixing in the grains with a big spoon.

I am a BIAB brewer and i want to brew an Imperial Stout. Until now i always mashed all the grains (for imperial stouts that is) in as much water as i could and i would sparge the grain bag to get the right preboil volume. It worked good enough, but the efficiency was low. So now i want to brew...

I never buy DME for starters. When i am brewing i always get at least 1 liter of extra 1.040 wort from the grain bag (or up to 15 liters from Imperial Stouts). Then i freeze it soda bottles and use for starters.

My water is terrible and not consistent, that's why i bought the RO system. All the imperial stouts i liked had a lot of different malts, so i thought i might try to recreate them. I may cut some of the malts, but the question with the roasted grain percentage and mash pH remains. I am...

Yep, but i only used aroun 7% roasted malts. If i want to use one of the recipes online that use up to 10-15% roasted malts i would need to use a lot of sodium bicarbonate to get a good pH. I can't wrap my head around those big roasted grains recipes... Do you think that i will get a good...

I am brewing from 2012 and i had pretty good results so far. But as i didn't really liked dark beers i almost never brewed them. Recently my taste buds started to like dark beers, don't ask me why, and i want to brew some big stouts. The problem is that i don't seem to figure out the recipe and...

The first brew was a 20 liter batch amber ale. A little trub cone after the whirlpool. This is the makeshift false bottom that works just as intended. Here is the boil with ~24 liter of wort and with ~45 liters of wort (third batch - Steam Beer - that ended in two fermenters with...

Hello, After more than a year without brewing because of a newborn child and a job change i managed to build my electric all-in-one system from a 50 liter pot. I used a bottom mounted 3 kw heating element i bought from AliExpress. Also the ball valve was mounted on the bottom of the...

You can overbuild the first starter by 1 L ore more and split the extra yeast in two. This way you can get to at least 10 batches from the same yeast without going over 5 generations. Over here i can't get localy liquid yeast for a fair price so i need to order it from abroad. I try to use it as...

One of these. I can't remember why i made two... For about 15-20 $ you can have 10 PCB made proffesionaly by jlcpcb.com or pcbway.com. That't the route i took and i am glad i did. You won't believe how easy is to solder a board with a soldermask :D

If the pH and temperature are in the right intervals you can't extract tannins, it's not possible. I would go with the sparging method and watch closely the runoff gravity. Don't know how to calculate the needed water to add.

All the pots have the same diameter as the height, so the 100 l is ~50 cm x 50 cm and the 160 l one is ~60 cm x 60 cm. I tend to go with the bigger BK because i could make bigger batches when i want (when i don't i can use the 50 l biab pot). As a biaber till now i don't really know how much can...

It was the sensor's fault, a new one solved the problem.

After a few years of moving from a city to another and a baby in my familly i can finally return to my electric brewery. I was going to make a 3 vessel HERMS system based on Kal's controller, with 100 liters pots (25 gal?). In the meantime i had the oportunity to buy a 160 liters pot ( 40 gal?)...