Recent content by DavidWood2115

I had not heard that oats helps with yeast health. Do you have a reference for this statement?

Summer Haze. <To be read out loud with an exaggerated Scottish accent at a Scottish themed outdoor event> Summer Haze is a New Scottish I.P.A. This Brew is intended to evoke memories of glorious days of summers past and summers yet to come. Summer Haze is brewed with the finest Golden Promise...

The Presto canners are rated for 12,000 BTUs, which is more than many home ranges put out but less than some "commercial style" ranges (e.g., Viking).

What size E-flask do you use? Is Fermcap enough to keep a 5L starter from overflowing a 5L E-flask? If you use a 6L E-flask, where did you get it? These can be very expensive.

Most 10 barrel conical fermenters have 6'+ of beer above the dump valve, which translates to at least 2.5 PSI. A CF10 has about 24" of beer above the dump valve (depending on valve placement) so less than 1 PSI. I suspect that, plus market differentiation, explains the difference. I personally...

Is there a good primer or other introduction to barrel aging beers? A friend is offering me a couple of small whiskey barrels, one five gallon, one three, to use to try making a (hopefully worthy) barrel-aged beer. We both like dark belgians, and I have had a few nice barrel-aged interpretations...

+1 on the BOM and files.

Yes. It was dry hopped with 5.5 ounces of Citra and Mosaic T90 pellets. I use a hop cannon to limit the O2 ingress during dry hopping.

I haven’t heard of the oxidation—> purple link, but I’m pretty anal about cold side oxidation so I don’t think that’s the cause. And I’ve followed the same cold-side process for multiple batches, so I don’t know what’s different about this batch.

Resurrecting a dormant thread… I recently had the same issue with my CF10. It’s several years old with many batches and no new equipment so there is no way this is due to machine oils. The beer turned out great, possibly my best hazy to date, so I’m at a bit of a loss. Of course the beer was so...

So the root problem seems to have been a poor choice of power supply (a 5W iPhone cube) for the Raspberry Pi. I swapped it for a 10W iPad charger and it seems to be working, although the RPI is still giving me undervoltage warnings in syslog. I probably have an official RPI PSU somewhere, but...

I'm back and would like to understand what is going on here. Can you point me where to look to see what is going wrong? I'm not seeing anything in /var/log, which is where Google seems to think NGINX will put it's logs.

I'm experiencing an intermittent "Internal Server Error" problem with Fermentrack. I'm traveling and trying to monitor my fermentation remotely. It was working fine for several days after I left, but for the past several days it works about one time in 10-15 tries. The rest of the time I get one...

Thanks. I solved this a couple days back but hadn’t gotten time to post. The problem was definitely corrosion in the barrel connector. I cut it out and replaced it with a double pair of crimp-on spade connectors. Wrapped them with electrical tape and rearranged the wiring so as little as...

I have had a Spike glycol chiller (repackaged from Penguin Chillers) for about two years. Until this week it has worked mostly fine to chill my CF10 (although cold crashing when the summer humidity peaks in my brewery is a separate challenge). I count myself a generally happy customer. The...