Recent content by ds0oc1

Thanks ajdelange - I'll carry on with what I have then.

Residual Alkalinity, how low is too low? When I try and get into the ~5.4 pH range with pale beers my residual alkalinity is driven way down. I've read most of the guide lines but having trouble figuring out if RA as low as 300 is problematic? Thanks!

I could do a 20 minute boil with the DME and throw in some of my dry hop..? :D I'll think about doing this tonight but I'll probably keep it the way it is - session IPA.

Thanks for the info, I'll need to read this over a few times to make sense of it - and yes I have 5 gallons. I'd like to try this using the least amount of water as possible as I don't want to reduce my hop bitterness, flavor and aroma.

OG is 1.050 and I'd like to get this up to 1.060. I got a lot of hop trub in this brew so if I racked it off into another car boy I could easily add a couple more liters of water/wort.

I brewed an Galaxy/Pacifica IPA last night and ended up with 55% efficiency (BIAB) and this 80 IBU will only come in at an estimated 5.2%. I've did enough reading on this after the brew and it could have also been a miscalculation on my part, either way I will be troubleshooting this later...

Going to try the same thing - I have some bubble wrap insulation leftover from when I insulated one of my kettles. Hopefully this will reduce the frequency of my kegerator turning on.

That explains why it looks sooooo dark. Looks like you got your own recipe now ;)

That 5 min addition IBU calculation seems a little off.

Thanks for all the quick responses. I guess this will be a good test for me as I've never had anything in primary for longer than 2 1/2 weeks. Maybe it will improve my beer :)

I brewed a batch this weekend not thinking I'm leaving for vacation on the 12th. I won't be returning from vacation until the 19th and really need to dry hop this beer. How long can I keep this in primary on the yeast? This is a very hoppy pale ale. With my plans to dry hop this and cold crash...

Hey, Just got my first kegging setup - was setting **** up (didn't really know what I was doing) and turned on my CO2 with the regulator cranked. It made some weird spitting noises and now the gauge reads 12 PSI after removing it from the CO2 tank. What have I done? Did I ruin the...

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The mill at my LHBS is self-serve and is hand driven. I'd rather just buy the extra grain then double crush 10# of grain. There is another store which I visit occasionally - I'll have them double crush the next time I'm there.

Enable SSH on the RPi and get a terminal client like Putty for your desktop. Check this out for enabling SSH using raspi-config - you can also set a password using raspi-config if you want. http://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/remote-access/ssh/