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    Pressure Ferment vs Typical Cold Fermentations for Lagers

    Hello, If you have the capability to pressure ferment, would there ever be a reason to do a standard lager with dropping the temp down and doing a typical lager fermentation? Seems like pressure fermenting can be done ALOT quicker and without the hassle of worrying about keeping the beer cold...
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    DIY Plaato Keg Monitoring

    Hello, just wanted to share a video that I was working on. Been working great! Its a DIY system to monitor keg volume, pours, and you can setup alerts!
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    Digital Floating Hydrometers and Airlocks, How Accurate Are These?

    Hello, I was looking at some ways to measure gravity during fermentation, I see there are a TON of floating hydrometer options out there now, most prominent is the TILT hydrometer. I also see there are airlocks that measure (bubbles per minute) and correlate that to a OG reading, most...
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    Never Hits Gravity - What am I doing wrong?

    Thanks all for the comments, really appropriate it. Based on the information in the thread I did more research in addition. Ill be making some changes. 1. Looking into a grain mill to start to do finer crushes, or if ordering from stores asking for double crushes until I can get my hands on...
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    Never Hits Gravity - What am I doing wrong?

    My expected mash efficiency is always 70%, do you believe that is unreasonable for my equipment? pump to recirculate mash/contoller to hold temp/mashout/pH measured? Also thanks for the message, ill check this out.
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    Very Odd Fermentation, No Bubbling

    Good Day! I have been brewing for about 10 years, and I have never had an issue such as this. I finished a brew day like normal, pitched my yeast starter, and waited. Typically - my fermentation starts within hours but this time it appeared to not do anything. I checked the next day... Still...
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    Never Hits Gravity - What am I doing wrong?

    It seems like for the past few years I never hit my gravity, I have been making adjustments to my brewday that help with "improving" gravity and I never seem to hit it. So im reaching out to you all for help! Ill lay out what a typical brew day is for me and please let me know where I am...
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