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Brewing a vanilla bean hard apple cider with SafCider-AC4 yeast. Seeing something I’ve never seen before. It went for about a weeks just little tiny champagne bubbles. Now it’s foaming all the way up and then in a matter of minutes the foam is gone. Then FOAMING UP and then it’s gone. Over and...

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Absolutely the most annoying thing. For it to happen out of the blue and generally be expensive to fix.

I have turned off at the tank, at the primary regulator, and at each secondary. I’ll have to try the submersion test. I have a couple of spare diaphragms.

I have a 7 tap keezer with a secondary regulator for each tap. Last week I randomly lost an entire 5lb co2 tank. Nothing changed with the system that was not leaking at all. Only thing that changed is that the weather went cold and now the garage is cold. I have turned off all co2 to each...

When I bottle with flip tops, I always put the tiniest amount of keg lube on the gasket. Helps it seal and keeps the gasket from drying out. Cheers

I just bottled my Kate clone weekend before last. It was brewed in February (I think) and aged in glass since then. It is probably the best stout I have ever had and isnt even carbed or chilled yet. I cant wait for the middle of October (when we crack open the first bottles)

I did this with the Heady Topper "Conan" yeast. Makes a really good clone.

I did this with the Heady Topper "Conan" yeast. Makes a really good clone.

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I ended up doing 15 gallons on Friday. I decided to parti-gyle a 5 gallon batch after I got enough for the 10 gallon batch. Used some amber LME, turbinado sugar, and Conan yeast (<-- heady topper yeast). No idea what it will taste like but should be good. 15 gallons at one time was way too...

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This will be my 3rd weekend in a row brewing. Weekend before last I brewed a pretty basic Saison to have something for the keezer (only 3 of 4 taps running right now :(), Last weekend I brewed another batch of the Strawberry/Rhubarb pale ale to have ready for when the keg kicks (it is on...

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