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I've brewed a few Belgians with the abbaye dry yeast you mentioned for exactly the same reason, and each time felt it was every bit as good as the wlp530... just my 2 cents

"It's a major award!" Also, love me some Two Roads!

I'm sorry, it's sold. I'll try to update.

Used once, never got into the rhythm of my brew day... electrode always stored properly since. However this unit is 6 yrs old and probably needs a new electrode, so price reduced to $50. Also have full bottles of the necessary calibration and storage solutions which you can have free if you...

I'm no help there, I'm a BIAB-er.

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Too bad I wasn't thinking then. I guess 4 or 5 grams of baking soda in the mash would've put me right in there. Now I'm not sure what I'd do. If I take a sample from the fermenter and get a ph value, what would you suggest doing?

too late for that as I just pressed on - its in the fermenter starting to bubble through the blowoff hose... Guess I'll just taste and learn...

Screwed up and probably spilled double the amount of lactic acid into my mash today brewing a 5.5gal witbier. I wanted it tart but not a sour... I'm guessing I might have dropped my pH to 4.8. didn't have a meter ready to check it. Just brewed it anyway, good conversion, hit 1.051. Any thoughts?

The 10gal boilcoil will definitely work for you - it goes from mash to boil in a few minutes in my setup. I use a wilser bag and a brewhardware fb during the mash. For my hops I use a large stainless mesh basket. Works great.

Beer looks great but your woofers need re-coning!

I think that unless you had an issue with your yeast, your attenuation issue is with your wort. I know mine was. Agree with others that if it tastes good, finish it. Mine tasted too sweet and the amylase enzyme dried it out enough.

Check out my posts from Jan 17 in revvy’s thread. I had the same problem and a tsp of amylase enzyme took care of it.

Absolutely! Mine has been wonky for at least a year now... I’m going to look for a good probe and cable

Try straightening it out and see if your temp readouts on the PID stop jumping around

The wires have a woven stainless sheath. They’re 5 yrs old or more and have been bent or kinked or whatever. They seem to be the cause of the temp errors I sometimes get. I make sure the wire doesn’t cross itself or touch anything else like the pump power cord, etc. I’m looking for some...

I’ve been using this system for almost 4 yrs (actually bought it from tmendick above) and it has worked great. I use a chugger pump and I recirc slow using a locline return instead of the lawn sprinkler. I put the locline right at the top of the mash so there’s no splashing. I use a Wilser...

Well it won’t be a 2 hearted because you really need centennial for that, but you can make a very tasty IPA with simcoe and Amarillo. .5 simcoe at 60, 1 Amarillo at 15, whirlpool 1.5 simcoe and 2 Amarillo for 20 min. I’d dry hop with an oz of each.

No, I didn’t but I have to assume it was a solid 2%.

I used a 3lb can in secondary of the 5gal batch of mead. It was fermented Out completely in just 2-3 days.