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9315.5 + 5.5 g NEIPA for New Year 9321

8494 + 5 gallons Breakfast Stout = 8499

You can absolutely keg hop to add some DH flavor and aroma. Search other threads for techniques to minimize O2 exposure. Good luck!

Stepping up to larger batch sizes, so this little bad boy is getting pushed aside. Lightly used with only 8 to 10 ferments. Includes thermowell, blow-off barb, airlock, and lots of extra o-rings. $150, Local pickup in Northwest Houston.

+5.5 gal NEIPA =4769

I have had better transfer success from my Speidel by placing a small board under the front so the fermenter tilts back maybe 15 degrees. After final cold crash and the hops/yeast have settled, carefully remove the board and return fermenter to horizontal. First I usually pull a hydromter...

I have a 15 gallon BrewBoss, and it is a solid piece of equipment. Not flimsy in any respect. Welds are clean on the TCs and handles. For the money I would go with the 15 gallon version which has accurate visible volume markings and weldless port for temp gauge. I use it exclusively for 5...

3051.5 + 5.5 gallons juicy NEIPA 3057

I have used the "poor man's beer gun" with some success, had read about it on this forum but cannot find the thread now. -Shove some silicone tubing over your tap nozzle. -Slide the bottle up over the tubing and press upward hard enough on the tubing 'skirt' to create a pressure seal. -Turn on...

Brewed this back in December, just opening first bottles now. I used 4.5 lbs frozen tart cherry and 1 lb of frozen dark sweet cherry. Its good, really good, for my first sour! Smooth, crisp, and layers of flavor. Very subtle Saison, Cherry is much more subdued than I expected, but is...

1121 + 5 gallons NEIPA = 1126

I have been using the site for a couple of years now. If you have a Tilt hydrometer it is a no brainier to use the site, as long as you have an old phone, tablet, or other BT/WiFi connected device that can continuously upload your Tilt data. I just use an old android phone that would have...

If you want to avoid all the baking soda or lime additions, dont add the roasted malts until the end of the mash, after conversion is complete. Set up the spreadsheet with base and non-roasted specialty malts to get a good target mash ph. In last 10 minutes or so add the roast malt, by then...

Ciao! It may be challenging to estimate density from a harvested yeast cake since there will be trub and hop matter mixed in with the yeast cake after fermentation. You can separate the yeast by washing or other method to be more accurate. From the book "Yeast" by White and Zainasheff, a...

Nice build! I only use the washer for cleaning with PBW and rinse water. I don't pump sanitizer because it does not need pressure or circulation to be effective. It just needs some contact time on a clean surface. After cleaning and drying, store your clean equipment and sanitize only...

My experience with mini fridges in a humid environment (Houston TX) is there is always condensation on the evaporator and I need some kind of collection tub and/or drain hole to manage water dripping from the plate. There is also inevitable splashing of wort, sanitizer, or ferm blowoffs. IMO...

Thanks Thorrak, I had run out of disk space. Deleting large error logs and forcing upgrade to different branch resolved the issue. Is there any way to manage (clear) log files or old brews from the web interface? Risky to do it from command line?

Depends a lot on your level of experience and your goals. A good starter and intermediate book is "How to Brew" by John Palmer. Everything you need to know to brew great beer, it can take you from simple extract brewing all the way to all-grain mashing. It does go into technical detail but...