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Dosing spoons and carbonation drops are too inexact for me. I don't trust me and plastic buckets for batch priming. I will somehow get an infection. So, what I'm going to do is get my sugar water to an amount that means each bottle gets a nice round amount like 5ml and then use an automatic...

Google says no, all the forums says no, computer says no (cough). Does anyone know of anything anywhere in the EU that can do 240V, 15A & 3500W? Just throwing it out there on the off change I have missed something! I tried building my own with the CraftBeerPi but I'm not an electrician and...

This is from the good folks at Brülosophy. Surprised it hasn't been posted yet. I've added it here even though it's a hybrid lager. Please feel free to move it though. BeerSmith 2 Recipe Printout - http://www.beersmith.com Recipe: (m)Oktoberfest Style: Märzen TYPE: All Grain Taste: (30.0)...

Thought this was very interesting where he states 1 pack of wyeast in 2 Liter starter is doubled in 18-24 hours. The video below he states he packs at a rate of 3 packs per 5 Gallons of wort! I can't find any discussion on these videos even though they are quiet old...

Looking at the middle layer the lack of stratification has me wondering if it is indeed yeast or just proteins and gunk? Also, now I've added a hop sock for dry hopping to my shopping list.

I'm consistently hitting about 80% with an excellent crush, was wondering what other people are getting. I do full volume (no-sparge) BIAB. If yours improved, please share with us what you did (finer crush, better PH control, etc).

Hi, My water report shows a relatively stable PH variation between 7.73 - 8.29 (currently lying at 8.02) but my hardness is showing huge swings between 6.03-18.4 in German Degrees of Hardness. My latest reading was at the low end of that at 6.41°dH. Is this something I need to worry about...

Title says it all really. Are crystal and dark malts subbed in a linear fashion? Is 1kg 20SRM = 2KG 10SRM? Or is it just with the roasted barley where I have to be extra careful? Is there any guidelines on this (especially for roasted barley)?

Hi, I've got a 15G SS Brewtech kettle with false bottom on an induction heater. I've got a 12V pump recircing the mash but it seems to be murdering my conversion effeciency. So i gave the grain bed a poke and it is very, very compact. Not at all compact enough to stop flow mind you, I'm just...

Hi, 2 brews I've now done with the same bag of pre-crushed pilsner have come out 33% under the mark extraction wise, even though i mashed in at a low temp and always up until now hit my numbers (and have done previously with 95% pilsner malt). It's from the same crowd as usual and the crush...

Hi, I want to build a control box for a single vessel system, utilising craftbeerpi. However, my knowledge of electronics is lacking. According to the wiki what I need is: Raspberry Pi (all models is supported) 1 x 1-wire Temperatursensor DS1820 Waterproof! + Thermowell stainless steel 1 x...

Say I harvest slurry from Beer A which was brewed a fresh vial/sachet and say this is Xbn cells/mm. Then I pitch that into Beer B. Then I harvest slurry from Beer B... Does slurry from Beer B,C,D,etc also have the same XBn cells/mm as the slurry from Beer A (all other things being equal)?

Hi everyone, so this genius here bought a second hand beer tower online without asking or thinking of the fitting underneath... you can't see from there but the tower comes down nearly flush with the base so drilling some holes in the base would only be possible with very small...

Hi, I'm planning on doing 2 SMaSHs as an educational/tasting exercise. The two recipes are as follows: Quantity Recipe 1 Recipe2 --------------------------------------------------------------- 4.5KG Vienna Malt Pale Malt 30g...

Hi, I brewed Revvy's Leffe Clone and bottled it last night. I was worried it was looking a little clear so I took this picture with an led torch behind it: And after checking on it not 24 hours later all the yeast is at the bottom and I can really see the individual LEDs (can't get a good...

Hi, I've got the recipe in BeerXml format if anyone wants to have a look. The original recipe has: OG 1.053 FG 1.014 30g EK Goldings 5% AA And they have this as an IBU of 25. All the software I've plugged the recipe into has me under 20 IBU. Do you think perhaps they meant 40g?

Hi, I have the following recipe from BYO for an Irish Red: 9.9 lbs. (4.5 kg) Crisp British pale ale malt or similar British pale ale malt 6.0 oz. (170 g) Great Western crystal malt (40 °L) 6.0 oz. (170 g) Great Western crystal malt (120 °L) 5.0 oz. (142 g) roasted barley (300 °L) 5.25...

Hi, Is it possible to make additions inside the bottles themselves? Like lets say you want to experiment, but not split batches, rather just "sacrifice" one or two pints? Or say you want lots of tiny experiments, for example in different bottles one could add: Orange Peel Lemon Peel...

Long Post Warning Intro This was my 4th all grain brew and I felt relaxed and planned enough to really concentrate on keeping a good log so I'd like to take the opportunity to get some feedback on what I'm doing right and wrong. Recipe The recipe is Revy's Leffe Clone adjusted to Metric and...