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Yesterday evening was my first brew where my controller handed the brewing process based on a recipe -- well everything except the plumbing; I still move hoses around. The Temps were kept within 1/10th of a degree and with the gas burners to subsidize ramping it took 12 minutes to achieve mash...

Over the weekend I was in the process of racking a DFH60 clone from a 14 day primary into a dry-hopped secondary. I had pulled out a sample with my thief prior to racking and had the hydro sitting in the tube on the counter while I racked. I probably should have tasted the hydro sample...

So I've just rec'd a corny keg that has a weird gas tube in it. It's orange plastic but it has a weird shape to it. I've got two other kegs that have plastics but they're the same dimensions (I think) as the metal gas tubes. This one is much narrower and a regular replacement metal gas...

I've got a cornie that's acting up and I think it's got something to do with the gas in post or poppet. I've had it on pressure for two weeks and the beer isn't nearly as carbed and the pour is really slow. This is the first time I've used this particular keg and I had a hella-time getting...

Since I got my own mill about a year ago I've probably done about 10-15 5 gallon batches of various beers. Each time using the measured volumes/gravity inside of BeerSmith to show my my Measured Efficiency. I Typically Batch Sparge with the the sparge water set at 170, using this as my...

A lot of posts I've read through in the last few days talk about methods to successfully ferment down higher gravity beers. My latest recipe is a big fat Rye IIPA that will clock in right around 1.105 or so if I hit my usual eff. I've read that WLP099 behaves slightly different with beers...