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I've wondered the same thing. My Black Maxx can get an awesome vortex that can diffuse air bubbles through the starter. But sometimes I'll get a krausen and other times I won't. When I do, it can go bananas and want to foam out of the top. I can't help but wonder if getting a high krausen...

I've been playing with my microscope and methylene blue for the last couple months doing 48hr starters on my Black Maxx. I have generally found the Zainesheff stir plate method to be more accurate to my numbers. Example: I pitched one vial of wlp510 into 1800mL of 1.040 wort. According to...

So here are the specs of my brew: OG: 1.102 Yeast: WLP500 Decanted 3600mL Starter 3 Mins pure O2 at pitching and a second burst 15hrs after pitch. After five days of slowly rising temps from 68F avg 3F/day I measured a 1.011 gravity, I racked, and have been holding for a few days at 38F...

This news article claims that people in California are doing it. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/14/marijuana-laced-wine-grows-more-fashionable-in-california-wine-country.html I was always under the impression that technically speaking, it would be hard to get thc into a...

Thanks for the reply, glad to hear someone else out there knows something about this. What I did do is harvest the yeast from two GCC bottles. I came up with a recipe I thought would work which was a modified weaker version of a Chimay Blue (I think they taste somewhat similar) and tossed in...

Does this make your house smell pretty hoppy?

So I already ordered the rhizomes, that's the way I'll be going. Probably cheaper too with shipping. When you say multiple 400's, you mean like one for each, or more than one each? I don't mind spending some cash to make this work. A fun project is a fun project. Not looking to save money, I'm...

Cool so I ordered some rhizomes for Cascade, Nugget, and Columbus to play with. Do you think this 400watt light would work for all three growing side by side in different big bins? Or should I hang up two? Three lights like this? And thanks everyone for the awesome advice, this is going to be a...

It's tough to see in the picture, but there is already a blue lamp up there, presumably for growing and some electrical connections for more lights. I'm guessing you mean to say that the sun wouldn't help much at all? Would the skylight help in buying less growing lamps or should I pretty...

Haha not sure what the seller's were up to exactly, but it couldn't have been anything naughty. Anybody sharing out townhouse roof could have walked over and seen in the skylight! They were elderly and retired too. I guess that shouldn't matter, maybe they had glaucoma issues. I figured...

So I've searched through some of the indoor hop growing threads and read a lot of the "it's a bad ideas, doesn't work wells", but it seems as though my scenario is a little bit different. Take a look at the attachment: So I bought this nice big townhouse with no yard in downtown Houston...

Man I searched and found this thread because I'm having the same problem. Ever get this resolved? I bought one of these from my LHBS and every single one of the valves leaked like a sieve. The same one is sold by multiple brew stores online. I tightened them all down, still leaked. More Teflon...

I suppose for the yeast, I should just work up some scrapings from the bottom of a couple bottles since it's all refermented in there. Is there any real way once that is done to identify a commercially available strain version of it? Or would I have to keep it stored and keep growing it?

Hey friends, I'm trying to break down a recipe for the Gouden Carolus Classic from the Het Anker brewery in Belgium. Anyone familiar with it? This is what I've gathered from the brewery and BLAM, OG will be 19 degrees Plato, and 8.5%abv Needing an 80% attenuation. BU/GU ratio is...

So instead of following the listed recommendations on the bottle, what's a more accurate scale of how much to add per OG and what (if possible) is too much? I'm curious to know if it would hurt me any to just dump an assload in there if I plan on doing a huge OG brew. Is there such thing as...

So after some years and a couple stuck fermentations I've fixed, is it possible to add too much yeast nutrient while brewing? The Wyeast beer nutrient suggests 1/2 teaspoon for 5 gallons and the yeast hulls I buy suggest 1 tsp for 5 gallons. Some time ago I brewed a Chimay Grand Reserve...

I figured an exact number wouldn't be possible, but surely a rough estimate like a thumb rule could be devised, no? Especially if you're using the same sized carboys over and over filling roughly to the same level. Would like to know more though on your statement "plenty of things that cause...

Hey kids, I've been reading for a while but this is the first post. I couldn't really find a answer through the search function to this silly question. I've been brewing a ton of high gravity beers lately and got to wondering one day. Let's say you've got your standard 3-piece airlock. Has...