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Would be awesome to have one of these. Count me in!

3 gallons English Porter 10,225 + 3 = 10,228

You can usually find unpasteurized apple juice at many of the farmers markets around town. Especially around this time of the year. Some of the farms also sell goods from other farms in the area. Seems like people on the western slope like to bring shipments into Denver because it's easier to...

Welcome to the fold fellow Denverrite! I've been meaning to try a cider myself. Unfortunately I have waaaay to many beers I want to try first... Cheers!

On the low end yes. However, they also recommend adding another calibration point at a higher known specific gravity - like 1.050 or something. (I'm just guessing here. Don't actually know the answers ;)) My tilt was 8 points low last time. I didn't really care. I mostly use it to show me when...

Supposedly you have to recalibrate every time after switching out the batteries (because each brand has a slightly different weight). Give that a try, perhaps it will help.

You invest in a Tilt hydrometer and a raspberry pi to post fermentation data to the web. Then you check the logs every few hours to see how the fermentation is coming along. And, as any proud parent would do, you show the chart to all of your friends! :yes:

This is what I do too. Works great. Hardly any trub in the bottling bucket. Plus, less to sanitize and clean!

Wow, I would love to have one of those. Count me in!

I've had a vial of white labs "not start". I'm not sure if the yeast was dead, or if I tried to warm it up too quickly and shocked the suckers. I mostly use wyeast now because I like seeing the smack pack swell before pitching into the starter. Gives me a little piece of mind that the yeasts...

Hey, that was my first brew too! I also had it turn out very nice. And, that kit is what started me down the home brew obsession! Small world. For me, that was back in May of 2015. I've done about 35 brews since then. I generally only have 1 brew going at a time (often with another bottle...

I have 3 gallons of an amber saison bubbling away. Been in there a week now. Used 1/2 lb of dark muscovado sugar late in the boil. First time I've tried that particular type of sugar. Tasted great going into the fermenter! Have high hopes for this one.

Could it be that the tilt got stuck against the side, went vertical enough to turn off, and then slipped off whatever it was stuck against and started reporting again?

+ 3 Gallons Red Saison = 8338

I had a similar problem. I actually ended up installing a second small faucet next to the first (I had a open hole in the sink that I would have had to put a plug into anyway). Not ideal, but it's a solution. The nice part is I can leave a quick connect permanently attached to the small faucet...