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After several years of all-grain brewing, I've finally gotten comfortable enough with my process that I'd like to start shifting my focus to some other details, like water chemistry (if necessary). My favorite beers to brew are IPAs DIPAs Saisons Stouts Wheat beers and I might start brewing...

I'm thinking about adding about two pounds of fruit to my secondary (Mango, orange, or grapefruit). I'd like to either juice or puree and pasteurize the fruit. My question is if my recipe calls for 2LBs of fruit, do I only get 2 pounds of oranges from the store? Should I get more to account...

I've only ever brewed 5 gallon all grain batches, but I would like to try to scale up to 10 gallons soon. I plan to do so by just using Beersmith to scale an existing 5 gallon recipe. I would like to know if there are any 'gotchas', in the transition. My brew kettle is a 1/2 barrel sankey...

Hi, A few weeks ago I pitched some liquid yeast into a batch of stout. I took a gravity reading with a "calibrated" refractometer, which read around 1.067. I used a small blowoff tube, which didn't appear to show any sign of a vigorous fermentation. After about a week, I still didn't see...

Greetings, I wanted to share my Arduino based Mashing controller that I've been working on. The Arduino is controlled by an old laptop running a Python GUI that I made for pump controls and for setting a target temperature. I decided not to use the autotune library after reading some of the...

Does anyone have any guidance for implementing a PID controller using a microcontroller or just a computer program? I'd like to do try one of these two implementations, but I need some PID code to start with. -Jbrew

I'm trying to build a partial e-herms where my system is partly gas and partly electric. This is the beginning of an eventual switch to an all electric computer controlled herms. Currently, I'm heating my HLT over gas, but I'd like to add a heating element so I can control the temperature...

I harvested some British Ale yeast from a very successful American Style IPA batch that I made recently, and I decided that I wanted to make a second batch using this yeast. I collected this yeast in a growler, left it in a fridge for about a week, and then slowly poured the yeast solution into...

Greetings, I have a pin lock corney keg without an air release valve. I'd like to know what the best method is for pressurizing my keg so that my American Style IPA (2.1-2.5 vols of C02) is ready in just 2 days. I'm looking for: 1. An initial pressure 2. method to release air space...

Greetings, I have an American-Style IPA that's been in a secondary for 7 days now. The recipe calls for the beer to be in a secondary for 12-14 days, but I'm going to be out of town on the 10th - 16th day. Should I wait until I get back to keg it or just keg it before I leave? Ideally, I'd...