Recent content by YanknOnion

Bang on. biggest problem I've had with nailing ipas was from oxidation. I went round and round like that until i started all my transfers with co2 and paid attention to cold side oxygen. Problem went away, now ipas are great and hop experiments can be noted and distinguished between.

Wife is Bermudian, (referred to as Onions), and I'm from the states (Yank)

I've got the new boilermaker 20 gallon bk set up with hop blocker and therminator chiller on a gravity feed. On the last 2 brews all working well down to the last gallon and a half which would not come out of the pot. Frantically, I unhooked therminator and quickly back-flushed and re-...

I did not articulate my question very well. I was saying that if I split my water additions in the spreadsheet, I would be taking some away from the strike water and leaving mash ph too high. You still found a way to answer my question, though as I understand now problems with tannin extraction...

Sorry if this is a repeated question, but I couldn't find it. I have gotten my strike water chemistry down to hit target mash PH using water report and ez spreadsheet. Question is, what am I doing if my additions are to strike water only while sparge water stays at it's original 8.3 ph? If I...

7775 = 5 Wheat = 1780

+ 5 Oatmeal Stout = 6013

2 weeks in primary. Gravity from 1.060 to 1.004. Never had one before, what do you guys think? Gravity that low tells me yes?

+5 honey IPA 4881

3989.5 plus 5 gal Pale ale 3994.5

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5 gal of bourbon porter = 3541

+ 5 gal of DIPA =2068

I have had infections from using dishwasher. There was a problem with my water supply and although the boil took it out of the wort, the dishwasher put it back in the bottles. Tasted great on bottling day, but...I'll never use dishwasher again!

1480.25 + 5 gal of Loggerhead Brown Ale = 1485.25