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How are you sealing your kegs? Usually some pressure is necessary. My FV can't handle pressure so do you just hit with some gas to seal, vent it then hook up the FV? Do you do it at pitching or do you wait for fermentation to begin? If you spund, is 2 to 3 days of fermentation enough to...

I have a consistent oxidation flaw in my beers, most pronounced in my IPAs. I am going to try to "blank slate" as much as I can to see where oxygen is being introduced. First up, my water. I've posted elsewhere and will be building a simple pale ale profile using distilled water, to remove my...

Hey all, I've been brewing with my well water up to this point and see fantastic efficiency in the grainfather with it. As flawed as it is, I get great mash efficiency and attenuation with it. It's just the high iron content leads me to believe it may part of the cause of some oxidation issues...

Had an ipa in primary for 4 weeks, went from 1.069 to 1.014, right on target, 5 gallon batch, pitched 2 packets of us05. I've run into this many times before, but haven't had the issue in my last 5 batches. It's green apple jolly rancher. I've read a million times it's from taking the...

And temp control. Going to make a 1.5l starter for 5 gallons of 1.078 wort. White labs says ideal temp is 68-72F, but I've seen many different profiles espoused on the web. To maximize spice character and attenuation, what is the udeal temp profile? I am able to control my temp to within...

Looking to brew an exceptionally dry, well attenuated beer with pilsen malt 95% of the grist. My question: I've seen sone info out there to achieve what I'm after, a rest at 148 for 40 min then one at 158 for 20 min followed by mash out will get me the result I'm after. I brew on a...

Going to brew a belgian strong with rose hips with this. What is the ideal fermentation/Pitch profile for this yeast? I want to maximize the spicy characteristics but avoid bubblegum. I have temp control so can ramp up as needed.

I scoped the monster thread for this and didn't see this discussed. I ordered my gf and am expecting it this week. 2 questions For all these people getting ridiculously high efficiencies, are your fg's coming out close? In other words, are you getting more abv or is it possible this...

I'm on my 50th batch or so. I brew all grain 2 gallon batches. I use mr beer fermenters for all my brews, and I keg into a 2.5 and a 3 gallon keg. I am having trouble with acetaldehyde creeping into 90% of all my beers 3 weeks after primary and getting WORSE with age. These seems to be no...

Hey all. Looking to make a great high-gravity warmer. Looking for a great pairing of malty with pine/spruce 2.50 gal batch 7 lb. UK pale malt .5 lb. Victory malt .5 lb, Crystal 80 .5 lb. D 180 dark Candi Syrup .25 oz Chinook 60min .25 oz centennial 30 min 1 oz Kent Golding 15 min Eighth tsp...