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I forgot to add that I use fermcap this time. Still the same issue. I have never had the banana/fruity ester flavor in my beers that you are encountering. I will try the next time to not use the fermwrap during the active fermentation. I mostly use it anyway to bring up the temp near the end...

I have a weird issue that happens when I temp control. I would love to have a time lapse camera on my temp readout and on the carboy so I could actually see what is causing it. I use a chest freezer with a Ranco 2-stage temperature controller. The freezer and some fermwrap are plugged...

It was a 150 rest. All-grain. 85% 2-row, 10% white wheat, 5% crystal 20. I realize it is in their attenuation range but I typically get in the low to mid teens on a beer of this sort.

Long story short, I am using WLP007 (a heavy flocculating yeast) on a 1.071 OG beer. At around 1.022 I transferred (in hindsight too early) to secondary to start dry hopping. It has been two weeks and it is now sitting at 1.020. It's too sweat for my liking. I emailed White Labs and had a...

Doh! I'll look for MPT (need to figure out that size) to 1/4" barb. I forgot I had adapters in place to hook my garden hose to the current setup. Thanks all for sanity check.

The picture below is from the MoreBeer beer filter. I already have the same filter and all the other parts except the Male Garden Hose to what looks like a 1/4" barb. Can't find it in my searches. Anyone have a source? -Cheers

Link to the refractometer: http://www.hannainst.com/usa/prods2.cfm?id=039001&ProdCode=HI%2096811 I wanted to post up and see if anyone out here in HBtalk land has one of these? I have one and, frankly, I don't trust it 100%. Here's my typical procedure when I go to use it. Turn on...

I have not heard of a hop back after the chiller (Doesn't mean it hasn't been done). My only thought would be not running near boiling wort through the hop back would sort of defeat the purpose of extracting all those delicate flavors. Any aroma you got from the after chill method could...

While I have a lid I don't plan on using it. I will just gravity feed into the pump and over to the plate chiller. Being before the chiller I think I will get an advantage of also filtering out any break.

Thought I would post up a few pics of my homemade hop back that I just finished. Basically it's a 2qt Polarware bain marie with some fittings welded onto it. I haven't done a brew on it. Plan to use it next brew session in place of 0 minute/whirlpool additions.

Did you mean yeast nutrient? Yes, I forgot to add that. I always use Wyeast yeast nutrient.

I am a little puzzled on why my last few beers didn't fully finish out their ferment and wanted to see if anyone had some ideas. Here is a typical example of a brew. Mash rest is always around 150-151 1.065-1.085 beers Always use Wyeast yeast nutrient per recommended dose 10 minutes before...

oops, i just re-uploaded the one above because i thought i hadn't. disregard this post.

I am concerned my pump is drawing too hard and want to make some type of inline vacuum gauge on the pump inlet. I saw a post where someone said they made one but I am unable to get a response via PM from the OP. Looking to see if anyone else has made one and if you could hook me up with a...

Update: I ended up TIG welding a little bit ago a couple of 5/16 - 18 nuts to the underside of the false bottom on either side of the dipe tube hole. I then put a couple of 5/16 -18 x 1 1/2" bolts into the nuts and mounted it up. The attached picture shows one of the less tight areas with a...