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Hey man... Hygrometer.. Hydrometer.. Cut me some slack! I'll blame my poor liver... :bott:

Funny story... I brewed this again trying a BIAB method. When I got my OG, I didn't notice that I broke (another) tip off my hygrometer, and I figured my efficency was way down because it was my first BIAB and I ground the grains a long time ago... too many kids and too busy.. So, I kept...

The last batches I've done, I was following the Palmer book and fermented in the primary for 3wks - month before racking out to bottles. IIRC, he said that there were secondary products being broken down in the primary long after co2 was being outgassed. If I go back into the primary, then I'm...

This thread is awesome - exactly what I was looking for. I bought a 128oz uKeg last year and haven't even used it, but wanted to do a smaller biab to force carb a gallon at a time in the uKeg. Sounds like I need to get familiar with beersmith to scale down recipies. I don't mind doing a 3...

Beautiful! I'm thinking it might not be worth the work to go through a 1 gallon batch and just do a 5 gallon batch, store the beer uncarbonated in the fridge, and then carbonate a gallon at a time.

Just curious about this recipe.. Beer memory isn't perfect... but dfh60 has been showing up in our parts on tap in several places, and after trying it a few times, I was very underwhelmed. I seem to recall it was a good brew in the past, but memory could be foggy, recipe could have changed...

Hey all - I was thinking about doing a gallon micro-batch in my gallon ukeg. It's been a few years since my last batch of this and checking to see if anyone had any suggestions for sizing it for a gallon final product.

Sorry to drag up an old thread, but got a black friday deal on a ukeg 128 and finally thought I would try a little BIAB or kit brew batch and this is where my search brought me. I was just about to try a BIAB when I last brewed, when a little tree stand accident left me with a broken back and I...

I didn't see it in the thread... but I was wondering in anyone uses the 'American Pale Ale' base malt for the 2-row? My LHBS has both and wondered if it might be a good match. The description of it here says you can use it when you want a solid malt backbone. However... older I get, the less...

Don't clean it with water! It's food grade grease to protect the mechanisims inside. We had a bunch of black streaks on our pasta when we were rolling our sheets out, so that's how I know (I called KA and asked what the deal was). Run a throw-away batch of pasta dough through it and that will...

Hey guys - I want to try this out... but not sure what voile is!!? Is it like a sheer curtain? Cotton? Nylon? Avoid colored material?

I was wondering about the bottle I tried. I thought there was a bit of a sweet taste to it, but since I've never had PLE, so I'm not sure if that's part of the taste profile or not. It could have been that I had to substitute a little lighter crystal than was called for, or maybe it's only...

Just wanted to chime back in here - but wanted to :mug: y'all for the help here. I did my specialty grain batch 5 weeks ago - and just had my first bottle. It was awesome! I used the bru'n water spreadsheet and figred out to add a little pickling salt / baking soda / epsom salt to try to...

So is there a public domain estimate for the slurry (I assume you just pitch the slurry and not the wort)? Ie, 1 cup slurry = 1 billion cells etc? I know it's just an estimate but I would lose count at about 126,392 and then have to start over when my depends blow up.

That makes sense - i wasn't thinking it through. Post boil would have no hot break on the dme.