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I'm quite passionate about beer freshness. Ask all my friends I taught to look for and how to find the "born on" dates on beers... Anyway, I did a story for a local Michigan beer magazine a few years ago and interviewed some Michigan breweries (link here). As @day_trippr points out, oxygen is...

I agree with the common opinion here about fermentation being done. And as I read through your posts @Zippy123 this is what I gather: 1. You think it tastes delicious now. 2. You're not the patient type. So, bottle it now and enjoy it. Imagine how sad you'll be if you muster up all your...

And what about sanitizing? So I need to sanitize brewing salts? I've only ever added them pre boil.

I don't know if gelatin/etc clarifies hop debris. I don't use gelatin because an opaque beer doesn't bother me. Floating hop bits do bother me (especially when they clog keg ball lock posts). But your regimen of 3 days cold crash is all I do and the hop debris falls out. And that is true for...

I recently noticed a trend on 3 different beers I brewed, all having this slightly chalky taste to them. Not enough to spoil the beer, but distinct enough of a bite that it annoys/distracts me. I then realized that all 3 were brewed to the same target water profile. Two were British Bitters...

What's your water profile and recipe? I'm finding a similar issue when I've used a specific target water profile. To my taste buds it has a bite. I found a modification, but I don't want to assume my issue/solution will work for you. But if could indulge with the recipe and water profile...

I totally agree with the "try it and see" because that trumps theory. But I agree that the bucket of ice water is going to work much better than a giant ice sculpture of frozen wort chiller (hands down which one would look cooler, though!). I love a good engineering problem. And I'm trying to...

Good point. I do a lot of equipment reviews, so bounce around a fair amount between different brew rig set-ups. I've done several AIO units, as well as brewed a lot on my 2V/3V RIMS setup. I have not found AIO to make a brew day faster. But there are a lot of footnotes that go along with...

I've been playing with the Brewzilla Gen 4 lately and I'm a big fan. It has increased capabilities over my 2V setup, so I don't feel like I'm making a compromise for convenience. That said, I don't think you're gonna find a 110v system that can boil 10 gallon batches. Especially if you're...

That SS Brewtech Infussion mash tun has foam insulation in the walls, so no heat can be applied to it. You have to do either recirculation of wort and heat outside the mash tun, or since it's insulated, get the right water temperature and add your grains and just let it sit. It will hold heat.

Also, I echo @tracer bullet suggestion of hooking everything up and running trials before you're actually brewing. There's nothing more frustrating than trying to troubleshoot a new system on the fly while brewing beer. Hook it all up and just use water. Or use water + your cleaning solution...

Here's some additional baby step info. This is your mash tun (SS Brewtech Infussion): This is where you're gonna put your crushed grain into warm water and let it sit for like 60 minutes to extract the sugars. This is your RIMS heater: It will have an electric heating element in it that...

You could cut your ibu in half and still be ok. My experience with dark beers is it's pretty hard to actually distinguish the hops much, so 20 vs 40 IBU will probably be pretty similar, but the 20 will help keep you further away from a hop bitterness. I like the chocolate wheat for my palate...

Wait- is this the new Nitro carb!? I heard the bubbles are even smaller...

I wouldn't trust any at 1 psi. Especially if it sticks just a little and then like you said you lose a whole co2 tank. But if you have the right duotight bits, maybe you could fill an empty 2L pop bottle with pressurized co2 from your supply tank, then hook that up with your regulator at 1...

I guess the thing to keep in mind is the magic wand can only auto calculate to one thing, and that's the water target profile, not the beer style range. I guess supposedly those two things overlap. But I'd just pick the target water profile you want and stick with that.

@Yesfan , it sounds like you're probably missing a very important function on Brewfather, the magic wand. Here's the water screen of a test batch I was doing for an experiment. In this photo, I have no salts added, I am starting with my house water profile (measured with brewing water test kit...

@Yesfan did you ever figure this out? Stumbled across this post today, and can help you out if needed. I use Brewfather, and their water adjustment feature. Their water target profiles have worked out great for me.

Maybe there's some sort of a drainback phenomenon happening. Thinking through what could beer happening in a 45-minute spaced pour that's not there with 1-day spaced pour... You're right that if it was tap temperature, first beer would suck. If it was big volume to small volume, it would be...

I have a sack of Weyermann Munich I malt. I hit a gap in my brew schedule and I've got a bunch of that grain left now (11/15/2023) even though it has a Best By date on the sack of 1/13/2023. I've got a brewing experiment I plan to do, to try to quantify the effect of a process variable in some...