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The peated malt I have used imparts too strong of a peat flavor into porters I have made when the peated malt was 3% of the grist. Note that I don’t enjoy heavily peated scotch. I have found that up to 5% of the grist of beechwood smoke malt gives a firm smoke flavor to my smoked porters. This...

Consider using a SCUBA tank instead of a keg. Used SCUBA tanks are rather inexpensive and are rated and tested to over 3000 PSI I believe. A common size is an aluminum 80 cubic foot tank.You will just have to figure out how to connect things up; i.e. go from the valve on the SCUBA tank to your...

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Hello HomebrewTalk: I am seeking some advice pertaining to using Brettanomyces, which I have no experience with. I have a barleywine that I brewed in March, 2016 that didn’t fully carbonate in the bottle and tastes too sweet. It went from an OG of 1.098 to a FG of 1.018 with WLP013 (London...

I recommend going with the 4 L stater or brew a small beer first as suggested. Once you have this batch as a base line, you can then play with lower pitch rates if desired of future batches to see the flavor impact it may have. Good luck!

I use a keggle mash tun, 15.5 gallons. I have insulated it as best I can with 2" of insulation on the sides and 1.75" of insulation on the top and it still loses 2 to 3 ºF over an hour. I do the best I can and call it good. Good luck!

That’s a very nice but expensive Y. You should get a two way CO2 manifold instead that includes shut off valves and check valves for a lot less. Or try the Y linked to below. https://www.morebeer.com/products/regulator-ysplitter.html

Can you route the CO2 gas line through the water filling pipe that goes to the ice maker? Thus you use an existing path into the freezer section without drilling any holes through the exterior. You should be able to drill a hole from the refrigerator section to the freezer section to route the...

I use CO2 from fermentation, 10 gallon batch size, to purge two daisy chained sixtel serving kegs that have been sanitized. Might as well get some use out of the CO2 generated by fermentation. It is pretty easy to connect the three sanke couplers in a daisy chained fashion. I connect the output...

I think you will be happier and have more success with the closed transfer if your purged serving kegs are at the same temperature as your fermentor. So if you have room, have your purged serving kegs inside the fermentation chamber and connect the output of the purged serving keg to the inside...

There are a lot on nice design features in this build. Nice job & very well thought out. I have some questions and comments. Remember, you asked for them! 1. The RIMS temp sensor is not in the HLT/RIMS water loop. The RIMS temp sensor in on the MLT recirculating loop. Therefore the RIMS temp...

Look delicious! What is the recipes IBU target? Better yet would be the IBU target for each of the hop additions.

Admittedly my process is weak when it comes to doing a great job of cleaning the spear. My process, again for the home brewers, is to shake the keg with cleaner or StarSan with the spear installed and with only half the lock ring fully installed. Best is to clean the keg without removing the...

All the above is great advice for the commercial brewery. Following are some of my solutions as a home brewer for edification of other home brewers. As a home brewer that uses Sanke kegs exclusively and that doesn't have the resources nor tax write offs of a commercial brewery, I have...

If you don’t reach your pre boil gravity target, you have several options: 1. you can add DME to reach your pregravity target 2. boil for a bit to increase the gravity before you start your boil timer 3. or as you are mentioning, decrease your hops additions to decrease the total IBU in the...

I got my half barrel Sankes from the scrap pile of a local brewery a friend worked at. They couldn't stop these kegs from leaking and so were designated as scrap. My friend asked if he could take 4 barrels for a home brewer friend he knew, me. They were happy to donate these to a home brewer...

See post #23 on this thread for my evaluation of two different White Labs liquid belgian yeasts, WLP550 & WLP570. I had some nice pepper notes using WLP570, but none with WLP550.

Thanks for another great give away Inkbird.

Consider mounting the keg upside down and use the existing sanke neck as a bottom drain. Place the large TC fitting on the bottom of the keg which will then be the top of your fermenter.

I wanted to report back on my recent results of brewing the Belgian Blonde and Belgian Golden Strong recipes with WLP550 (Belgian Ale Yeast, Schoffel strain, I believe) and provide my taste comparisons to prior batches using WLP570 (Belgian Golden Ale Yeast, Duval strain, I believe). The...