I think there's a severity level to "wrong/bad" if you're going to say "it's absolutely wrong/bad". There are some good things that come from the articles and they don't claim to be the end-all/be-all for information (at least from my observation). It's ok to present information and be wrong. We...
What about this process for NA?
- mash beer as you normally would
- sparge as you normally would
- boil for 5 minutes, with enough hop material to help keep things anti-microbial
- Ferment (almost non-hopped) wort
- After fermentation, cold crash wort to filter out suspended proteins (and if...
(not sure if this was mentioned before, see I'm late to the party with no date) This makes sense because a 5.34 pH @ 77f (standard for pH measurement) would correlate to about 5.1 pH @ 156f. Basically, we've been doing the same thing but cooling our mash/boil/etc wort before testing because most...
Not at all! I store all my lager and ale yeasts at 38f degree fridge. I have no issues with reviving them. They usually kick off very well once at a temperature that they reproduce at. Once you're at an optimal temp, you should be ok. Now, in regards to your lag, you might just have old/sluggish...
Let me preface by saying that I don't think what Brulosophy is doing is wrong/bad. I do think there are flaws in testing that you can't really address without a lot of money behind the testing, which I don't think they have. I personally read (and have done so for many years) Brulosophy for...
Barolkleen might work for you, sounds around similar to what the ABW is but without the Metasilicate, instead using Lye, which is what BLL was mentioning.
Btw, Walmart in my area (New England, Western Mass) has Sunnyside TSP free (meta-silicate) for about $4/lb and it's in the paint section.
40oz box 7th Gen = $6.16
3.5 lb Oxy = $7.99
2lb TSP free = $8
So roughly $23 total (only using 20oz of the 7th gen) comes out to 6.75lb and $3/lb...
Here's another one that may be a contender -- https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07413ZDPZ/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20
212f rated, seems like similar plastic material as the others.
If your tripping because of your pump there's something wrong with your pump or your wiring. You should fix that issue before dropping $130 on a in-line GFCI :)