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I've been reading (and listening to the occasional podcast) about head retention lately. Something occurred to me today. Whirlfloc and Irish moss (if I understand the product descriptions correctly) are aimed at precipitating, among other things, protein. Some of what I have heard and read...

I'm looking at purchasing the SSBrewtech 14 gallon Chronical. I was wondering if any of you guys out there have experience properly sizing a fermentation chamber for it. I have all the dimensions and have been looking at craigslist and various appliance stores over the last week or 2. I'm...

Trying to decide if I want to brew today or wait until this weekend. I brew 10 gallon batches. My process usually has me making two 1-1.5L starters on my stir plates (because I have the smaller flasks.). I make the starters up a few days ahead, the cold crash the night before brew day. This...

I am usually an AG brewer. But recently I wanted to try something Jamil Z. had suggested. His contention is that all other things being equal, you can still make an extract beer equaling the quality of an AG beer. A good yeast starter, oxygenation and proper temp control would yield a solid beer...

Any consensus out there? I've had a dual regulator Chudnow system for a little over a year. Prior to that, I had a single regulator Chudnow setup. I've gotten tired of throwing rebuild kits at this thing (cartridge + diaphragm). I had to refurb one of the regulators last fall. The second one...

I'm a longtime all grain brewer. I've been faithfully listening to Jamil Z over the years. One of the things he advocates is for AG brewers to occasionally dip back into our extract roots, employing the sanitation, yeast starter and temp control tricks we've picked up along the way. He claims...

Meant to brew yesterday but my kid got sick and I'm deferring my brew day until this coming Wednesday (1/1) or the following Saturday (1/4). I made 2 yeast starters for an 11 gal batch (1.6L each, same yeast, but my flasks are both 2L capacity). They went on the stirplate Wednesday night...

I just need to vent. And this seems to be as good a place as any. <rant on> I belong to a few different forums on various subjects, and a particular type of behavior seems to crop up regularly. I usually just have to close the thread when I see it. Otherwise, I am likely to draw myself into...

I am planning on making a melomel with honey recently harvested from a friend's apiary. The honey will be raw and untreated (was still in the hive until a couple of weeks ago). Do I need to worry about wild yeasts? Should I plan on treating with campden or sulfite first? I ordered the...

I'm not worried about this fermentation at all. I am, however, curious as to what I am seeing. I made 10 gallons of Yoopers Fizzy Yellow Beer on 8/16. Basic recipe is 70/30 split of Vienna and 2 Row. Went a touch high on gravity as it seems happen when I mash long and low (70 min at 149F). At...

It has been some time since I have made a mead or melomel. And doing some reading here, it looks like the processes have changed significantly since then. I have a friend who keeps bees. He has set aside 15# of honey from his recent harvest and contacted me about making a mead or melomel with...

I have a question that has been perplexing me. At least it is making me doubt what I thought I knew. Does the beer, if set at a constant pressure and kept at a constant temp, eventually reach equilibrium, where it will take on no additional volumes of CO2? I thought so, but I was...

I am doing two, 1.2L starters to split between a 10 gallon batch I am brewing this weekend. I put each starter in a 2L flask. But I only have 1 stir plate (I do have a stir bar for each though). Both starters were pitched with yeast 13 hrs ago. One went to the stir plate. This morning, both...

Despite the *****y title, I am trying to help someone I saw posting to the forum a couple of days ago. I can't find the thread I was in earlier. Hopefully, if this user is still searching for the answer to their issue, they'll stumble on this and get to the same solution I did. The poster...

I have been using the 2.0 version to estimate my salt additions. Mainly as a baseline for estimating mash pH, which I then check on brew day with a pH meter. I was in the spreadsheet today when I read (maybe even for the first time) a caveat on the sheet that says sparge additions that you...

Let me start by saying I know these 2 strains have little in common other than being lager yeasts. But I have recently stepped up to 10 gallon batches so I have been doing 5 gallon side by sides comparings yeasts. It's been a long time since I have done a lager. Easily in excess of 12 years...

I have just integrated pumps and hi temp hoses with stainless QDs into my setup. Actually bought a pre made system from morebeer that came with different lengths of high temp hoses pre installed with the disconnects. I

I did my first brew day on my new system yesterday. It's a 10 gallon 3 kettle flat system from Morebeer. Looks a lot like the Brutus 10. Aside from a couple of minor hiccups resulting from kinks that still need to be worked out in my process, the day went very well. I did have one item that...

Just got my Morebeer. digital flat system this week and did a test run with water yesterday. The whole thing worked like a charm. Tested temperatures vs. my thermapen, made sure the temp-dependent and float-switch dependent functions were all working as I expected. Had I not been playing around...

Moderators, please move this to the classifieds if you think it is more appropriate there. I inherited a combo Colonna Capper/Corker from a friend at work today. It has both capping attachments, and the metal plunger for corks. It is, however, missing the plastic shield that holds corks in...