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I got into contact with a supplier that will sell a pallet of 2880 ALUMINUM beer bottles with caps and cardboard cases for around $1070. At under 50 cents a piece the price is good and I would love to have aluminum bottles portability/durability. Currently they are only manufacturing 12oz...

Perfect, I hadn't heard of campden tablets before, but it sounds like that is just the key in case I can't get it right with just a high mash temperature. I seem to have attenuation fairies in my basement. I made barleywine a few months ago that went from 1.100 to 1.016. (aim was 1.025ish) I...

I recently made a Porter and wanted it on the sweeter side. I mashed around 156 and used a lower attenuation yeast (app 71 - 75% wyeast London Ale III) I checked the gravity as I kegged it yesterday and was surprised to see it had only hit about 65% attenuation (I have yet to have a stuck...

I found this image looking for the same thing, 40 points of data isn't a lot for a lookup table so I was content and stopped looking for a true SRM->RGB algorithm. It does seem to be a bit light north of 25ish to me though SRM Beer Color Chart

I was wondering if anyone has compared the BeerTools implementation of the Tinseth models for hop utilization with manual runs through his equations on realbeer. It seems that BeerTools comes up with higher numbers, off by as much as roughly +15 IBUs around OG 1.100. I am writing a boil...