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Most Acetaldehyde problems begin with crashing the yeast too soon, the couple of times I ran into this issue was due to my impatience. The fix was to let the beer age longer and occasionally release CO2 from the keg, this is an easy trick to remove the compound from the headspace. S-04 does...

It might be a bit husky :) Just think of it as added fiber in your diet.

Adding sugar to the DME has the effect of diluting the nutrient content of the solution. It is a good practice to add in extra yeast nutrient to help offset this. Kai did a study on this effect and would be a good source of information to learn from. The addition of sugar did have a negative...

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In my panel build I used the E-stop to kill the power to the PID's, which in turns kills power to the contactors and subsequently the elements. Dealing with inline fuses is a pain and if you decide to skip that step there is a real risk for arch flash using the e-stop as a short to ground.

My understanding there would be no benefits of adding bicarbonates, unless you needed the calcium contributions. (there are other ways to get that though) Ultimately would you offset the basic mineral contribution with additional acid to reduce the pH to the 5.4. When I formulate the...

The technical data out there says the caps do not activate until they are submerged in liquid and even then the reaction of oxygen absorption in slow and takes 24+ hours until the liner is exhausted. Scroll down to page 32 for a good write up on what is most likely in the liners...

The liner in the cap has most likely activated, but they will still work just fine for sealing the next batch of bottles. It is just the O2 scavenging feature of the cap that has been compromised. I would still use them, just think of the caps as "normal" caps. Cheers

Let's see... How To Brew Yeast Designing Great Beers Brewing Classic Styles Brewing Better Beer Radical Brewing was decent and Brew Like a Monk was great if you like history mixed with some recipe discussion. I agree on holding off on Water, being a chemical engineer with a focus on...

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Last weekend I put together a Schwarzbier, a lager of modest size. The difference that really struck me was the Jamil stir plat method would of had me making approximately 4 Liters of starter and Kai was only 2.5L To me this is a huge difference in starter size and surprised me. Funny enough I...

I've been making yeast starters and using http://yeastcalc.com/ for a while now, always trusting the Jamil and Chris White calculations. Recently Kai posted a write up on his blog http://braukaiser.com/blog/blog/2012/11/03/estimating-yeast-growth/ talking about the original calculations were...