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Looking for some comments from others who may have experienced this. I made a 300 micron cylindrical hop basket which fills the keggle opening about half way with a diameter at 8". The mess used was from McMaster (http://www.mcmaster.com/#9319t173/=10ffndy). What I noticed was that the wort...

I'm trying to figure out what I might be doing wrong when running a spectra analysis on known hops with an AA of 6.2. Following the ASBC 6A guidelines I get a spectra as shown below. Can anyone send me an example of what they get when they follow the 6A guidelines. They state that there...

So I came across this article that was written by the CABA (Canadian Amateur Brewing Association) back in 2006 which shows the distribution of cracked grain for the ideal mash (supposedly). That's might be a bit subjective based upon alot of things but ... So here is what it looks like: I...

Could anyone help me diagnose what this powdery material might be at the top of the funnel separator? I made a batch of IPA using WY1217 (West Coast IPA) and wanted to start some slants from it. Obviously, I had already brewed and should have started with the original stuff but... After...

I just purchase my 16 quart pressure cooker and decided to put those old saved White Lab vials to work again with some fresh yeast. So my thinking was to put the (30) or so vials in the cooker and sterilize them. I was surprised when I opened the lid to find my originally clear vials...

So I count 400 cells in my hemocytometer using the simple method 5 squares of the 1 x 1 x .10 mm volume. The yeast was diluted in a 100 : 3 dilution (multiplier of 33). And I measure 175 ml of pure yeast volume - assuming 100% viability. Doing this math give me 115 billion cells (400 x 5 x...

I finally piped Natural gas out to the garage this weekend and tried out my new savings (ie. no more trips for LP fill up - yippy). But I was getting incomplete combustion (ie yellow flame tips). I drilled the orifice out to 7/64" diameter which seemed to be O.K. and completely removed the...

Was thinking of doing a winter project to be able to Lager come this summer. I have heard nightmare stories from folk who have drilled into their cooling channels. To date I have been sucessful in getting the gas line and thermocouple in without incident in a number of freezers and refrigs...

I wanted to get some input from you guys who have access to Deschutes brewery more regular than us mid-westerns. I love their Inversion brew and found the recipe from an internet search. I did change that recipe slightly by going to the Deschute website and seeing that they use a malt that I...

I have a question for your veterans pertaining to your whirlpooling port locations. I have seen a number of configurations that place the port for the whirlpool near the bottom of the keggle. Given that I use a CFC and have a dip drain tube hugging the side wall, in your opinion, would it be...

I hope you guys might be able to give me some suggestions to follow up with. I've looked back at my past (5) AG brews and noticed that my expected efficiency out of the boil kettle is not where it should be. What the average has been is right around 60%. My volume is right where it should...

Question for you guys. Last week, when my lager would start because of older yeast, I stop at one of the local Microbrewery's here in Cleveland. They got me set up with a Wyeast 2206 right out of their fermenter. It was well aerated and when I got home I poured about a 1/3 of it into the...

I'm looking for some help on the ProMash software compatability. A number of guys in my local club use it. Being that I'm just getting started in AG, I'd like to be able to ask some questions to them however I'm running a 64 bit machine on Vista. Does any one know if there are install...