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In it! Saq's The Pious Westvleteren 12 Style Quad Clone - All-Grain Recipe Kit

Who is in charge of content control? This really needed proofread and edited.

Oh don't apologize. Good discussion by all. I never thought being chemistry was still in such a state of flux. Very enlightening.

So basically from all of this discussion I have realized that this isn't as simple as "the reason your beer is **** is because X". I think, at least until I get a good pH meter, I am going to lay off the water profiles for now. My filtered tap water has done well over the last year and...

Basically what I need to do is get a god dang pH meter instead of throwing from the hip with what Bru'n Water uses as estimations. I also may be using Bru'n Water wrong when the acid addition comes in to play. I think with my calculations on Bru'n Water, it said this was a 5.6pH mash. The...

Thanks for the info. I actually used Bru'n Water to manage these additions. I don't have a pH meter yet, I have been using the approximations on the Bru'n Water sheet. I also forgot to add a mash addition to my original post which is where I think I am getting my off taste from...

So I have been brewing for about 13 years and have only just started trying to nail down water profiles, but I am just not groking it and my beer is suffering for it. So here is my recipe for 5 gallons, using RO water throughout: 12 lbs Maris Otter 12 oz Crystal 20 12 oz Crystal 120 12 oz...

Yea, badly executed. I came here like everyone else, thinking about brewing funky beers. This is a nice article, but most of this information is readily available pretty much everywhere. Don't see why it deserves an article.

I agree with the 3 dudes above me, 100% hype. I've had BCBS a few times and it was good, but is it 'wake up at 2am to be able to get the best deal' good? Absolutely not. As for 'whales', this is the reason people find the craft beer world so annoying and abrasive. You are waiting in line for...

What do you mean here? Mix enough what? Mix enough malt extract? That's Krausen and it means it is fermenting, you are correct. I don't know that that would make a difference honestly. 1.018 is a very low SG. What was the volume that you pitched into? What was the temperature of your...

Definitely in on this one.

Definitely in for this one.

I'm in this one.

I just picked up the variety pack. I used the two smallest sizes and they worked fine.

I can help you out Dolomieu