Recent content by tmurph6

No I’m in north Texas now, just haven’t updated my profile in awhile 😀

If you’re kegging, just cold crash the beer then rack. Yeast and hops have a propensity to drop out with cold temps. You could also use gelatin finings to drop out yeast and hops for clear beer in the package. If bottling, just bottle beer, don’t worry about the hops, they’ll drop out in the...

I find improper use of a refractometer is pretty common. The proper way to use it is to first ensure your wort is homogenous, which is really only necessary pre boil. Second is take a pipette of wort and drip onto the lens and cover. Wait 30 seconds for the sample to cool and take your...

Happens to me all the time. Don’t worry about it, no big deal.

Worrying won’t fix anything.

Try a different yeast. Sounds like the common variable is yeast selection.

If your beer has been sitting in primary for 2 weeks with little to no change in gravity then it’s good to bottle. If the beer calls for dry hop, typically people dry hop when fermentation is complete to avoid losing aromatics vis co2 release during active fermentation. 2-3 day drop is is...

Too much line can be as detrimental as not enough. I found at 12psi and 40F about 8’ is right. The goal is to have just a little residual pressure at the end of the line as dropping pressure too low can cause co2 to come out of solution prematurely. Keep your temperatures cold help as well...

Kegs are stainless and a magnet won’t be attracted to it for that reason. The white stuff is likely hardness that precipitated while boiling, I get it on my stainless heating element every time I brew. Small rust spots on stainless is totally normal. Scrub it with barkeepers friend to remove...

You can ferment after using campden tablets. I use them in every batch I use despite filtering through a charcoal filter at 1gpm. I’ll say don’t trust anything you read on marketing materials regarding filters. Get your water tested via ward labs if you want to use your tap water. I think ph...

Medicinal taste, bandaid or plastic flavors come from chlorophenols which is interaction between your malts and chlorine or chloramine in your water. My advice is to use campden tablets to get rid of that. Dose your water and let them do their thing for about 20 minutes while you heat up your...

A little late to the party here, but I use cbpi with a hosehead. My HLT kettle logic is simply the offset logic. I set the offset to zero so simply if my hlt cools below my set point it kicks the element on, if it is above set point it kicks it off. I find this method for me is good enough as...

You can pull the PRV out. My process involves purging keg with co2 then transferring beer into keg with prv unscrewed. If you’re transferring beer into the keg, you’re just venting co2 out the top so you don’t have oxidation risk any more than burping the keg in my opinion. As an aside, I...

You sure it’s banana and not green apple?

Before exchanging my element I did do some troubleshooting. I have another element in my hlt so I made sure it wasn't a bad relay or cord by plugging that element in as the BK element and it worked. The contacts on the element we're really loose, not sure what happened, and not entirely sure...