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• Posted in thread: Can't get good late hopping/dry hopping results on 01-30-2013 at 02:10 AM
  Is it low in calcium? How about bicarbonate?Yup. In both. Here's my (Seattle's) water profile
  which is almost identical to Portland's. Ca 9Mg 1HCO3 18SO4 2Na 4Cl 5Quick question. How are
  treating your...

• Posted in thread: Can't get good late hopping/dry hopping results on 01-28-2013 at 03:37 AM
  Portland water is very low in minerals. Usually for an IPA you want to spike the sulphates to
  50-150 ppm. I'm from Seattle and have a very similar profile. Sulphates at 0-5 ppm. Granted you
  should sti...

• Posted in thread: Can't get good late hopping/dry hopping results on 01-28-2013 at 03:36 AM
  Portland water is very low in minerals. Usually for an IPA you want to spike the sulphates to
  50-150 ppm. I'm from Seattle and have a very similar profile. Sulphates at 0-5 ppm. Granted you
  should sti...

• Posted in thread: Newbie Q on 01-28-2013 at 02:56 AM
  Brew 365 has an online mash calculator that is very accurate. Follow that. 1.33 is their
  default, which is mostly in the middle of the extremes. You can do either with fly sparging,
  just make sure you...

• Posted in thread: How do you know when you've added enough oxygen? on 12-26-2012 at 01:42 AM
  One minute 30 seconds at a slow rate is good. Blasting the o2 only causes the o2 to escape into
  the headspace (which you could then shake to dissolve into the wort as MTB mentioned). With the
  slow met...

• Posted in thread: To belt, or not to belt, that is the question. on 12-26-2012 at 01:25 AM
  62 is chilly, though if you pitched enough healthy yeast and kept that temp solid then it
  should be done or on it's way. Gradually raising the temp 4- 6 degrees can only help. You could
  potentially cl...

• Posted in thread: Slow fermentation wlp002 on 12-26-2012 at 01:08 AM
  Personally, I would leave it be and hope for the best. Make sure your temp is staying solid in
  the 68-70 range and that your ambient temp doesn't drop. When it finishes, take a gravity
  reading and the...

• Posted in thread: Fix this leak??? on 12-16-2012 at 04:12 PM
  If your attempts at reseating the lid are not working and the leak is always at that point, it
  could be the metal lip on the inside being malformed, in that rubber ring can't seal because
  the lip is d...

• Posted in thread: Elements turned black on 12-16-2012 at 03:55 PM
  Yeah. Also never heard of this because all the elements I've seen are coated with a black
  material to begin with. Though not sure why a stainless or copper one would do that.

• Posted in thread: Hefeweizen on E-Brew Question on 12-16-2012 at 03:52 PM
  No issues with high proteins. I've got the electric brewery setup and have done wheat and rye
  beers at around 50 percent on the grain bill and they have turned up very clean. Just watch out
  for a blac...