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I asked my local Water Dept. for a water mineral report. This is what I got. Good or Bad. What should I add or dilute? Thanks for the help! "Calcium and Magnesium level is not analyzed individually but as Hardness which is a concentration of Calcium and Magnesium salts. Our Hardness level...

I would like to do this all so.......bump

I fill my boilermaker up with all my water (Mash + Sparge) I purchased a little electric burner from walmart $20. Step one: fill up the kettle and crank the electric burner on high. Then I set up everything and by then my water is 185 and I drain into the mash to preheat. (Leave the burner on to...

I am getting a 10gal Boilermaker for xmas and I am looking at adding the false bottom to the order. I just recently built a 10gal Rubbermaid MLT and have done 2 very successful AG batches in it. Now for my question...Could I just do my Mash in the Boilermaker (with the falsbottom) on my...

So why not just always use dry yeast... if liquid yeast require this extra attention

Misplaced that's what I want to hear

Haha I was being sarcastic... I think I will just change the water

That sounds exhausting

Because a air lock does not fit in my temp controlled freezer... I just like to brew set the temp and forget about it untill a month has passed

I like to leave my blow off tube on during the whole month long primary. Is it ok if the blow off water gets dirty from the active ferment and I don't change the water. It started off with clean star san water and it is now brown?????

I have a large (width) blow off tube installed into the neck of my 6 gallon glass fermenter. The other end is in a small pitcher with starsan. The pitcher is sitting on the compressor hump of my temp controlled freezer. Since I have such a large blow off and the "liquid lock pitcher" is below...

Can I leave my blow off tube on the fermenter. I am leaving it in the primary (no secondary) for 4 weeks. I did not get any "crud" in my blow off tube and or my sanitized liquid lock...that I can see. The only reason I really use a blow off, is because I ferment in a temp controlled chest...

I heard the fermenter in my chest freezer (64degrees) going nuts, so I opened to take a look to see the action. When I opened it, I was slammed by the trapped gas coming from the blow off tube. I almost blacked out and my nostrils burned like hell. Should I burp the chest freezer or just never...

You can get these at Walmart $13.00 Has a built in fan works great along side a temp controller. Extremely small footprint. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003XDTWN2/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 o-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B0047Q9PP4&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX 0DER&pf_rd_r=0ZCQNXH9J2R13JWH3GD1

You can get these at Walmart $13.00 Has a built in fan works great along side a temp controller. Extremely small footprint. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003XDTWN2/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20