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You could try plugging the numbers in your water report and the ingredients in your recipe into EZ Water Calc. That will allow you to play around with what to add to the water to bring it closer to what you want for the style you are making. http://www.ezwatercalculator.com/

There is an article in BYO this month about the exact same thing, a zig zag trellis to accommodate a low grow ceiling. Should work great for you.

Xtynct, thanks for the heads up on this, just ordered one. I love Carl Sagan.

It sucks to get ripped off but how much of your time and energy do you want to give up for that small an amount of money? Getting a lawyer? You can't be serious.

Since I posted they released a 20 foot cable, which I bought. Thank you OhmBrew!

Thanks for the (only) reply, GilaMinumBeer.

This is probably a very dumb question for those that know chemistry. Sorry. Cell J36 in step 4A in EZWater Calculator allows you to enter an amount in ml of lactic acid. Adding ten ml in my case gets me to the correct pH in the spreadsheet, but I can't tell if that means 10ml to the mash...

I used one once in Mountain View, CA years ago. The place is no longer open. They gave you basic directions and the ingredients (extract-only, no all-grain) and kind of half-supervised you. Then you came back a few weeks later and bottled. The beer came out pretty good, considering it was an...

Sounds like a great idea to me. I don't know anything about them. Hopefully someone who does will chime in.

Has anyone with a Fermostat found a way to lengthen the probe cable? I spoke with the company and they have had some requests for a longer cable, sounds like they will eventually make and sell one, but not sure when. It looks like a proprietary cable to me but I don't know a lot about...

Hope it carbed for you. If not, hopefully others will chime in with some suggestions that are better than mine: You could try the carbonation tablets such as Prime Dose in one of the bottles If there are any yeast still alive it might give them a little pickmeup to carb the beer. If it works...

I didn't read all 14 pages of this thread so my apologies if someone already said this, but my grandmother used to hardboil eggs then just toss them in a jar with a can of pickled beets for a few days. Purple pickled eggs.

Might be a good excuse to buy a keg setup so you can force carbonate it. Why did you leave it in there 16 months? Have you opened one of the bottles yet? You could probably tell if it's starting to carbonate or not after a week.

Might try them on the walls instead, thanks for the idea.

This is my simple Top Tier rig. All gravity to kettle, but then I have to pump thru plate chiller and 75 feet of tubing (no infections yet!) to the fermenter.

Thanks all for the replies. I am gonna go with a three-day shift from 70 to 35.

I purchased the dual stage one for $159.99 My freezer is in my garage and the temp in there is all over the place, so dual stage is a must for me.

I've seen a lot on here regarding cold crashing but haven't found anything on this exact topic. Does anyone have any input on the timing of the temperature shift from fermentation stage to cold crash? Do you just dial the temp down and let it get cold as quickly as possible, or do you do a...

I also use the Morebeer heaters. I use a 30 gallon fermenter, so I use two of them so more of the fermenter outer surface is covered, but one would be fine if you're doing 5 gallon batches. I use a Fermostat temp controller and it keeps the temp very steady inside the freezer, which is in the...

I did this to my 120l Spiedel spigot after reading this thread. What a great tip. Thank you!