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Just pour it into the fermenter?

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And one more thing...out official local city water profile lists an alkalinity level of 66 and a pH of 8.8 if that helps.

I mashed at 153 for 60 minutes and then began fly sparging. My sparge water got too hot about half way through the sparge because I forgot to cut off my flame on the HLT...that's what caused the grain bed temp to run up to 180 for the final half of the sparge. My SG was 1.044...was shooting for...

OK, so I wasn't at my best today and accidentally let my grain bed temp run up to 180 degrees. It didn't get to that temperature until about half way through my fly sparge. About a third to a half of the wort was already run off into the boil kettle before the temperature climbed that high. Is...

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Spyk'd- could you describe how US-04 was underperforming in your experience? What type of beer were you fermenting and what were the fermentation conditions?

I brewed an American wheat this weekend. I have brewed this beer a few times before and used Wyeast 1099. This time I opted for a dry yeast. I had intended to use s-05 but was sent S-04 by mistake. I went ahead and rehydrated and pitched the S-04, as I didn't have time to wait for s-05 to...

Ok, I have an amber ale that I carbonated in my my keezer at 12psi. I needed the space in my keezer to carbonate another beer, so I took the amber ale off gas and put it in my basement. After sitting in my basement for about a month, I put the amber ale back on gas and hooked up to serve. I've...

I brewed a batch of Cream Ale and used the WLP 080 Cream Ale yeast in mid September. This is the second time I've brewed this beer, and this was the 4th generation for this particular yeast strain. A buddy of mine and I keep and swap slurries which is why it's fourth generation. This batch...

Also, would draining my first mash running into plastic buckets before sparging be my best way to go?

Hi all, I'm new to brewing and just acquired some nice like new brewing equipment. I have two 15 gallon SS brew pots and two burners, and would like to do a 2 vessel system. My goal is to do 10 gallon batches. Can anyone talk to me about advantages/disadvantages of 2 vessel system? Is there...

I'm converting a boil pot I already have (about 15 gallons) into a mash tun. I am looking for a dip tube with weldless bulkhead. I also need a thermometer for the pot. Please let me know if you have something to ship to 38024

Any chance you still have the 4 Perlick taps? If you do and would be willing to sell separately, please let me know. Thanks

I'm new to the home brew game. Am starting off by building a Keezer. I need 4 Perlick all stainless taps and shanks, a temp controller, and a couple of ball lock corner kegs. Please let me know if you have any or all of these things. Thanks!