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What do y’all think about judges that don’t follow the style guidelines? It seems to me the more experience a judge has, the less likely he or she is to pay attention to the published guidelines. As an example, My first competition entry was an American Pale Ale. I didn’t use any citrus...

My brewpots have rivets that are slowly rusting. Should I be concerned about iron? What does it taste like? Edit: Bonus question! Can I seal it with epoxy or superglue or something? The pot is stainless, the rivets apparently are plated steel.

I have been using the generic Oxi for a while ‘cause it’s really cheap. I remember people on the forum mentioning that the real stuff doesn’t cause limestone precipitation (the white stuff). It’s true! Both list sodium percarbonate and sodium carbonate as ingredients, but the OxiClean™...

http://www.wqa.org/pdf/techbulletins/tb-chloramine.pdf Did y’all know this? Really? Nobody told me. I tripped over this trying to find out what ‘catalytic carbon’ is. It turns out they’re all catalytic it’s just that some are more catalytic than others with regard to chloramine.

I just got some LaMotte total chlorine strips. It reads shades of green from .5 - 5 ppm. It reads 3ppm at the tap, but through my old 10“ carbon filter, it stays yellow. A brand new 1 micron filter, same result. Guess what happened with the distilled? No change. No smell of chlorine...

Stone Levitation Who’s had this beer? I just tried it and it’s amazing. It’s called ‘Levitation’ because they are defying gravity. Get it? Stone is, of course showing off. I take it as a nod to English bitters, with a very American twist. I’ve been brewing 1060's lately, but I might...

This is a bit of a pet peeve with me. The conventional wisdom is that PBW is percarbonate based. Other than the Internet echo chamber, I have absolutely no evidence this is true, and some evidence to the contrary. I’m hoping somebody has some convincing evidence, one way or the other. This is...

Lately I have been trying to nail down my fermentation temperatures. I have noticed that the temperature of my glass carboy varies 3-4º F from the top to the bottom, as measured by an infrared thermometer. Once the fermentation gets going everything is stirred up enough that the variation...

Ok Guys, I have a quick question. I just got a Milwaukee MW 101 pH meter, and it’s as much fun as a new toy can be. My problem is that the owner’s manual puzzles me. Here’s my question; If I need to stick this thing an inch into the solution to get a good reading, how is a few drops of...

I just pitched a 5 ga pale with rehydrated S05 and then dumped 20# of ice on it. Can the yeast hang with that? I have done this with half a dozen batches, so far so good. Of course getting away with it doesn’t make it best practice. My tap water is 30ºC(86ºF) and the ice cools it 10 or 12...

Good news everyone! I have a simple and very accurate calibration procedure for thermometers. Yay! Hit it, Mr Wizard. Isn’t science fun?

D’ooh ! I had a sort of an epiphany last night checking the temperature on my Hot Liquor Tank. I was literally watching the lime scale on the walls go into solution. You know what it looks like when you boil out temporary hardness? Same thing in reverse. Recently, with the help of people...

A while back I diluted my carbon block filtered tap water with two gallons of RO. I didn’t notice any change so I forgot about it. Lately I’ve been using three gallons of RO sparge in to four gallons of mash and it’s remarkable. The beer is softer and much less astringent. It’s a pale ale with...

My brother stores his hoses, racking canes etc. in a bucket filled with Iodophor solution. He then re-sanitizes with more Iodophor before use. I clean, spray StarSan and hang them up to dry. More StarSan before use. I know that Iodophor goes away, StarSan would be a better choice...

I notice a lot of people saying “Airlock activity is meaningless.” Quit it, right now, you’re scaring the children. Beginners are likely to get confused when you deny them a common sense observation and try to force them into the cult of specific gravity. Don’t get me wrong, I have a...