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My impression would be to just adjust the base malt. If you scale across the board, that means up'ing the roasted, crystal, and flaked adjuncts. Thus leading to a darker, much sweeter, and grainier beer with simple scaling. If anything, to maintain the same flavor profile, cut back on the...

If you do a search of some of the commercial belgian IPAs it seems that they bitter with something like warrior or simcoe and the late/dry hops usually have amarillo. Centennial, columbus and cascade are pretty prominent in the mix for middle additions. I personally really love the combination...

I've done exactly what your talking about with a HERMs coil in my HLT and another length of copper coil in my boil kettle permanently built into it. I was using a plate chiller and got a little tired of the complexities of using it, in my system at least, and missed whirl pooling. Put the coil...

Im in for probably 200lbs of grain depending on what is going to be available and would love to try out the belgian malt

I think the biggest hang up is multi-terminal usage. If you have a brew pub with many computers (for retail, production, distribution, etc) the software needs to be easily synced between all of them in real time while 2 or more computers are in use. I realize you could do this running it...

You should be able to maintain temperature to within 3 degrees fairly easily in the HLT that contains your coil if you can keep the temperature uniform (either just by stirring during heating or with a second pump). My system stays within .5 degree doing something similar but use a PID...

The third dish you mention is likely black mold, really common around bathroom areas. The second one is definitely mold as well though it looks like it hasn't sporulated like the third yet. They are definitely not yeast though. The streaking on the first looks good with no mold or anything so...

I fermented a batch of this at 68 and it turned out great. Medium amounts of clove and banana. It was so vigorous that it clogged my blowoff even and pressurized it until the stopper blew off and hit the ceiling. It was a weizenbock though, so a little more stuff for the yeast to go crazy on. :)

If there is a round 3, I'd be interested in 4.

I did a weisenbock a couple months ago with a big starter of 3068 and it literally exploded just like yours. It was so thick it even clogged every attempt at a blow off tube. Fermentation from hell. Had beer on the ceiling and all over the walls. Turned out fantastic though. Hope yours turns...

The yeast could have been rather old though. Who knows how long the package was sitting on the shelf. If you are really worried about it, work up a healthy starter and re-pitch it into the secondary and see if that gets the gravity down. But I would still wait until a week is up in the...

You can totally split the batches. If you look around the forum you'll find that people often do smaller batches down to about 1 gallon. Often they will do a couple of different boils and alter the yeast/hop profile on top of the same grain bill and see what works out best. Starting off small...

few.... Thanks again Chris. Don't know how i didn't discover this thread till last night!

If it's not to late, I'd be in for 100# pale then. Thanks RDWHAHB

Crap! I'll be out of town! If someone would be willing to hold on to a couple bags for me until after xmas pm me, otherwise no go for me....

I would strongly discourage a microscope. I really can't see the usefulness in one. Randar is right that the cheapo ones on ebay aren't going to be good enough. You need more than 400x (10x eyepiece and 40x objective) to see bacteria, and if you aren't in a lab environment with good optics...

Craft breweries reuse their oak barrels so I see no reason why you couldn't reuse your oak chips at least once and have successful results. Cactusgarrett is right though, you will definitely be carrying over some bugs unless you re-roast them.

If you have a fridge already though the site says the dimensions of the 20 gallon conical fit in a 20.5 sq. ft fridge (which I think is pretty typical, maybe a little large) I've built my own CF's out of plastic cone bottom tanks and have to say that the greatest part of them is not having to...