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Hi, im from Argentina, i apologize for my bad english. Good article, it helped me to understand more about IBUs. In other articles you can understand what to do but here you can also understand why. I have one question. does the formula consider variation of gravity during the boil? Does it...

Hi, im from Argentina, i apologize for my bad english. Good article, it helped me to understand more about IBUs. In other articles you can understand what to do but here you can also understand why. I have one question. does the formula consider variation of gravity during the boil? Does it...

BKF is awesome. I use it on SS all the time, even on my cooking pots and pans. However, it should be said that BKF will ruin etching like volume markings.

Just for the record, I cleaned mine with TSP first, then PBW and then passivated it with a high concentration of StarSan before first use. I still got the machine oil ring at the top. I wonder if the alcohol in the beer caused the remaining oil to separate from the conical. Anyhow, the oil...

The black stuff got less and less, and by batch #6 it was completely gone. At this point I don't think it was mold, but rather some substance remaining from the manufacturing process. Cheers!

Awesome. Next meeting is June 14, 2016 @ 8pm. PM me if you have any questions.

Glen Ridge Homebrewers - Monthly Meetings Location: Town Pub of Bloomfield (378 Broad St, Bloomfield, NJ 07003) Date: Every second Tuesday of the Month (Schedule on Facebook) Start Time: 8pm We'd like to invite new and veteran homebrewers to join our monthly meetings. Typically, we have...

I luckily got my hands on a used Frigidaire upright freezer (12.1 cubic feet) on CL, and I'm planning on using it as a fermentation chamber for my conical. After studying the fridge conversion guide on the BrewPi website, I'm ready to embark on my own build. I'm using a Particle (formerly...

I've been happy with my conical fermenter, though I've seen an unsettling trend in the first 3 batches I made in it. The upper part of the dried kräusen is black, which I assume is mold. I've been extra vigilant about keeping things clean, and limited the potential oxygen exposure. For the last...