Recent content by CentralCoastBrewer

Generally, chemically, it is true that things happen faster at warmer temperature. That is just fine and well understood science. What is ALSO well understood science is the relationship between temperature and gas saturation in liquids. High temperature is not your friend in this case and...

"- Beer carbonates faster the warmer it is" this is utter ********. Chris

The amount of literature on this is staggering if you search the brewing journals. Get your beer as cold as you possibly can without freezing it. That is pretty much canon law in brewing. Chris

My glycol system is set to 28F and that is more for safety reasons than anything else as the glycol concentration will let me chill it more. I aim to get my beers at 30 for cold conditioning. Chris

As a professional, I will recommend you chill your beer as fast as possible to the lowest reasonable temperature you can after it has passed VDK. Chris

It takes roughly 10-15 minutes for the kettle to completely drain through the heat exchanger into whirlpool. Remember also that SNPA is all whole cone hops. Specific boil times are proprietary, I would go with the website. Full disclosure: I do not brew for SNBCo anymore, I was a production...

NDA says I can't be specific. Sorry. I'll finish going through the thread today. CentralCoastBrewer

That is pretty close. I would up the Ca a bit, I can't say how much. CentralCoastBrewer

A friend tipped me to this thread. I'll go through it and help where I can..... CentralCoastBrewer

Hey folks. Just thought I would pop in. If you want to be authentic, SNPA is NOT dry hopped. It is all flameout. I have a bit of knowledge on the issue..... ;) CentralCoastBrewer