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I was just reading articles related to yeast viability during transfers. Your main issue with the 3 days at room temp will be the depletion of glycogen reserves in the yeast cells; and on top of that you'll have a few dead soldiers...but I'd go for it! Just tell your buddy to aerate the crap...

Keep in mind that pressurization itself is not the goal of pressure fermenting. The goal of pressure fermentation is to control ester and fusel alcohol production through the metabolic suppression of the yeast from high CO2 concentrations. In that sense, high pressure with O2 is...

I had the same problem, I was burning through CO2 canisters and couldn't figure out why, even with sprays of starsan on the parts. Finally, I took the whole damn setup over to a local pool (actually, a hot tub) and submersed it all...tank, lines, manifolds, corny kegs...the works! That's when...

Unhopped malt beverage? Let's not forget about Zima! The Untold Truth Of Zima

Hey Brooo, I use the Spike CF10 unitank and sometimes serve from it. You've mentioned the key ways to serve already, so I'll outline my primary use cases in order of frequency of use. Pour from the sampling valve. What a wonderful thing! Since I spund the beer in the unitank, I'm already at...

The unfermentable dextrins have more calories for humans since unlike yeast we can digest most of them -- with a little help from our gut probiotics

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Get a Milwaukee Hole Hawg 1/2" which has a 250RPM setting that is ideal for crushing. I bought mine for $100 on eBay. I use it with my MM Pro 3. The MM with 2" rollers is a beast and was too much for my old drill, and I found it too hard to control the speed down to ~200 RPM using the...

Our club had a presentation on this topic from the Gigayeast founder, Jim Withee, just 10 days ago. There were several takeaways: 1. Production breweries face the same issue 2. Don't blame the yeast; yeast flocs out pretty quickly (days to a few weeks); blaming (or for that matter, crediting)...

Hey all, reading the thread with interest. @Bane, I like what is posted on braukaiser.com regarding multi step mashes. http://braukaiser.com/wiki/index.php/Infusion_Mashing. I have a RIMs system and benefit from the ability to do step mashes that way and I often follow the "Hochkurz" profile...

Just acquired my RIMS rocket and it arrived today. I purchased because I looked at building my own RIMS tube and found the balance between watts and watt density was quite favorable. I will be happy to share my experience. I am still building out my controller and playing with options...

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