Recent content by dionbill

Thanks for the info. I’d recycle the chill water for sure. The problem is the that most places that I’ve looked (more of a curiosity) are on septic tanks and have limited capacity for waste water.

Avid home brewer who would like to some day start a craft brewery. Reading up on the details around running a commercial brewery, I read that they have a massive amount of waste water.... like 3-5 bbl waste water per 1 bbl of beer. I’ve been racking my brains trying to figure out why it is so...

Thanks everyone. You’ve been very helpful indeed.

Thanks again. I will be looking into the NEIPA, which I am not familiar with. So how does Blue Moon achieve its cloudiness? I have cloned that one a few times but can never make it cloudy. I typically add about a 1/4 oz of oj (as opposed to a slice of orange) and it looks identical to blue moon.

Thanks man. When you say large amount, what percentage of the build is large roughly?

Bought this beer from a local craft brewery. It’s really cloudy, looks and tastes like a hoppy grapefruit juice. I quite like it. My question is more around how to make a beer hazy or cloudy, like this one or a blue moon style beer. And how would they get such a strong grapefruit taste... add...

My initial thought as well but I thought the healthy yeast typically settled to the top. This was pulled from the bottom of a SS conical and washed once with sterile water.

Doesn’t look light enough to be yeast but I wanted to get an opinion.

When you say any, are the others besides the zymatic system that are automated? I’m curious if there are other options in that space. Thanks.

I am looking for some opinions on the fastest way to test recipes. I have lots of recipes I want to try for a potential microbrewery setup so I’m looking at the fastest way to test them. I currently have a 20 gal HERMS system but that is too big to start refining recipes. Was looking at the...

I agree that 1056 is to high but I was running out of time and was pushing the limits for sure. After the initial starter, I placed the flask in the fridge for about 24 hours to let it settle and then decanted of the yeast cake. Brought that back up to room temp and then pitched it into the...

I have always done 2 week primary, 2 week secondary. With this one I am just experimenting.... I am playing around with trying to mimic a brewery setup of two week turnaround. Overpitch, fermenter for 11 days, crash for 3 days, keg, carbonate (quick carb) and serve. In my case, I’ll be crashing...

I used a vial with about 75B cells remaining. I did a 2L at 1.056 for about 30hrs. Let it settle and decant off most of the spent wort. Then I did a 2nd 2L starter using the settled yeast cake at 1.056 for another 24 hrs, immediately pitching it into the final 11 gallon brew. According to the...

Let me ask a follow up question. Since fermentation appears to be complete after just nine days, when should I start to cold crash and keg? I know breweries go from boil to serve in 2 weeks (11 days ferment, 3 days bright tank). I will be using kegs as my bright tanks. Thoughts? Thanks again.

That was it. Those numbers get me to 1.012 fg. First time I used a refractometer for fg. Thanks a bunch guys for straightening me out in this. Cheers[emoji482]