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I like to purchase a lot of different styles of beer to see what other commercial and craft brewers are doing. The more beer I sample the more I like the taste of my own home brew. Not that I am a master brewer. I think it comes down to being able to customize my recipes to my own liking...

Yes I read this book as well, great book. Google Lars Marius Garshol on YouTube. He has a great video talking about kveik yeast.

No lower temp greater pressure., Look at the chart, Keg Carbonation Chart (bottom of page) If you are sitting at 2.4 volumes of co2 at 65 degrees, then if you chill the beer to 40 degrees, , notice that the volumes of co2 go up (psi as well). (that is a good thing). That is why you do not want...

To put it simply, when bottle conditioning, you are relying on the yeast in the beer to carbonate the beer. So you want to calculate using ambient temperature, too cold of a temp will lengthen the conditioning as the yeast will go dormant. (use the Beer Priming Sugar Calculator | Brewer's...

Yes, same here, it is hard to find the correct juniper branches. The author indicated that the species of juniper from the states taste woody and a bit piney as well. I used juniper berries as a trial.

Just finished reading "Viking Age Brew", by Mika Laitinen. Great read, Brewed my first Sahti, waiting patiently for fermentation to finish. Joe

According to Wikipedia depending on type of nylon: The 428 °F (220 °C) melting point of nylon 6 is lower than the 509 °F (265 °C) melting point of nylon 66.[56] Should be fine.

Doing a test batch of a Citra IPA using Lallemand Voss Kveik dry yeast at 96 to 99 degrees F. As you can see from my Ispindle, Red color is SG and Blue is Temp. Lallemand indicates that the optimal range is 35-40°C (95-104°F) The results are less than 24 hours. Cross referenced with my...

Hey all, I am trying to create a wheat berry beer. I have some pasteurized black berry juice with sugar. I ferment the beer normally and then transfer the beer to a secondary. I add several ounces of the blackberry juice to the beer and let it set for several days. It appears to continue...

Just wondering what the life expectancy of the FermZilla Conical Fermenter is? I know what hydrotesting is and have done testing on other types of pressure vessels. I am thinking of purchasing a few and wondering how long they last before you have to replace the container portion of the...

Take a gravity reading and see where you are sitting. If using a refractometer, make sure you compensate for the alcohol in the beer. If you are close to your target SG then enjoy. If still too high then let beer sit another few days and take a reading again. From what you have indicated...

Hey @Kickass, I recall reading about not stirring yeast until you let it saturate. But in searching there appears to be some controversy about stirring after pitching yeast. Some indicate it is fine others indicate it can wash the yeast up onto the side walls of the fermenter. Also the added...

@Kickass, I indicated "when using dry yeast" I was not referring to rehydrating yeast before pitching. I have done both without ill affects. https://www.lallemandbrewing.com/docs/products/bp/BEST-PRACTICES_REHYDRATION_DIGITAL.pdf

you are correct, dormant not dead

Yes, you stick the temperature sticks to the fermenter. The 100F cutoff is perfect for Kveik.

Dead yeast at the bottom is normal. As long as their is nutrient in the wort, yeast will keep on reproducing and old yeast will fall to the bottom.

If you are using dry yeast, let the yeast saturate for over 15 minutes before stirring. You do not want to rupture the yeast cells.

Can you place the bottom of the valve in a vise? Then you can try to loosen. It looks like there are threads on the adapter. Can you remove the entire valve from the regulator? Then you will have more room to place the valve into the vise? If you can try to add a little heat to the bottom...

Righty tighty, lefty loosey. Yup. On my regulator I tried to remove the valves to replace and found out that the valves had male threads and were one piece. Had to remove the whole valve and replace the valve into the body of the requlator. Hard to tell from the image.

If you purchase a fermentation blanket, (electric blanket, make sure it does not have a shutoff timer) purchase one for brewing, (Amazon) You just need a temp controller. If you are re-pitching yeast, make sure you follow sterile procedures, Use an alcohol lamp or a propane torch and work...