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I’ve got a refractometer that is calibrated with bottled distilled water I had. Its readings seem to be on par with the hydrometer any time I’ve compared them side by side. This is an all grain, same thing I’ve done many times in the past with a single pack of wlp800 (albeit non “expired”...

This is going to be long winded… So I recently tried my first batch using wlp925 and things aren’t really going to plan… First off, the yeast was a few months past the best by date, so I used both pure pitch pouches I had for this 5gal batch. Surprisingly fermentation took off relatively fast...

Awesome, thank you. I’ll check them out and try to get things lined up for a spring planting.

Good to know! I haven’t tried any yet, but I may set aside a place in the garden for them next year. It was on the plan for this spring but things just got so hectic at work I hardly even got any vegetables in the garden let alone doing extra curricular activities 😂 Where did you get your...

I’ve been pretty busy with work lately so I haven’t done a whole lot of batches since I had replaced the orings. I have been a little more cautious about my starsan mixing ratio and haven’t had any more issues since

Fair enough, that’s pretty much always the case, gotta pay to play! Being new to the hobby I still don’t think you get better bang for your buck as far as an entry level AIO. If I weren’t new to the hobby or if/when this one bites the dust I would have spent the extra

Awesome! Yes that must be a new ‘feature’ as my foundry that I had bought in the spring doesn’t have the 4 screws like that. I’ve been mindful of getting any liquid on it. I have had a few oops moments and boiled over, but it hasn’t caused any issues with it yet!

So I emailed blichmann to see what they thought and they figure it is from the star San. Possibly too strong of a mix, maybe I f’d up but I thought I was pretty close on my mix The orings are silicone and they sell the replacements. I might just order up some new ones rather than mess around...

Yea I’m not sure what to think as I’ve never seen an oring deteriorate that bad in such a short amount of time. The one in the racking valve seems odd that it would be the cleaners doing it, if any residual got stuck there both orings would have been in contact with it not just the stem oring...

I’m new to all this wonderful stuff and maybe it’s something I’m not doing right but has anyone else had issues with the orings that come with their fermenator cracking up? Second time cleaning thing up I noticed one of the orings on the spunding valve starting to crack. Now on this last...

Yes it should have been fully up to room temp, it had been out of the fridge since I was prepping for the brew. Same process I do with the 840 and that works fine

My 3rd ever batch of Pilsner lager. This is after only being out of primary for about a week, I got thirsty

It’s definitely not scientific but my first batch was around 67% efficiency, since then I’ve been doing the “lift the basket a few times” trick and efficiency has been around 75% since Maybe it was just a fluke on my first batch but it definitely isn’t hurting anything that I can tell. It...

Hard to say. Beerholic can’t make up his mind what his total is lol

25g total so far 5g ale 20g lager