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Just got my wards labs results back and plugged them in to Bru'n Water and I noticed some red flags in many of the water profiles. I have a three stage filter that i ran the water through to send in for the test and the report came back with ph 8.5 TDS 128 Total alkalinity 61 Total...

Thanks much...I likely have more yeast as I just pulled off the two pints so far. That rule of thumb really helps out.:mug:

Feel like I am going to do the same. Are you planning on using yours straight or making a starter?

So I am just finishing packaging a cream ale and want to do another. I prepared a starter with 3 yeast packs wlp 80 (two were close to exp and another was expired) for the first 10 Gallon batch. This time I remembered to cool the batch and dump the trub prior to pitching. I hit the wort with...

I have been doing some pretty big 10 gallon batches lately and notice that when pumping and recirculating I was getting "stuck" like sparges. I use Blichmann G2 15 Gal mash tun and realized I was at the top of capacity for considering my grain bill and grist to liquor ratio. I picked up on...

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Problem with that and the mini keg kind of set up is you really don't want to be trying to pour beer in cups when travelling down the rapids part. Part of the river you can only have a cooler with a lock on it because inevitably it tumps over and drops all your beer to the bottom of the river...

Looks pretty sweet! Think I have found a new toy to save up for. Bit too much and too soon for this trip. Might have to just go with some pet plastic bottles. Think I'll try a couple of the larger homebrew stores as Day Trippr mentioned. Thanks all for the input.

Anyone had any experience with this? We have a family event where we are going tubing down the river and glass is not allowed. Looking for something in the Houston area but I am worried that my small amount (prob 20 gallons) wouldn't be worth it for some of these mobile canners. Any help...

I am making an Imperial Irish Ale 10 Gal @1.079 OG. I only have a 2 l flask so I made up a 2 l - starter with 1 pack of pure pitch wlp004. I put in some fermcap. This will be on a stir plate. I have two additional packs of wlp004 that I was going to add in when it came time to ferment the...

In my search for answers on this I found this thread where a fellow brewer had purchased a DO meter and did several tests.https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=318420 For my purposes the big takeaway was that the measured sample was approximately the same an hour after initial...

I have been trying to use my blichman quick carb to do double duty as an inline O2. First attempt worked pretty good but I ran out of O2. Think I went a little heavy on the flow rate for my 10 gal batch. My question is how long does the oxygen stay dissolved? In this example I oxygenated on...

I have a pump and blichman 15 g G2 mashtun.

Appreciate that. I think that is one of the things that has been confusing me about sparging. I use beersmith and it breaks a single infusion down into two steps so I assumed that was to add water then drain. Seems to be two different schools of thought on this as I saw in Plamers book he...

I got a new stand and BK and have been really trying to dial in on my last two brews. I found for one that I am boiling off at a much higher rate than before but I also feel like I have some other opportunities around water volume. So i took the time this last brew to measure and mark a volume...

any one had any luck with this? Their email indicated you could upload an xml file but all I get is individual drop down boxes to enter info in. Not too big of a deal but just a little bit of a PIA.

Thanks for the advice. Medaled and on to the finals!!:mug:

Thanks day-trippr. I appreciate the advice as you and fuzze_wuzze seem to be the foremost experts on this kind of thing. My ferementation chambers are in the garage and the bar is in the back yard about 100ish feet away so they are all on the same wifi and perhaps close enough to blue tooth...

Just got my Raspberry pints hooked up and running and now I am ready to tackle converting a 3 zone fermentation set up from stc's to Brewpi. Is it easier to go with a second pi or to add the arduino etc on to the existing? Thanks for any advice

Thanks for the input. Any suggestions on adding the orange. ? Fruit in the keg, add orange juice or concentrate? I've even seen some recipes that used flavor oils commonly used in baking. Any have a suggestion for adding that to kegged and carbed beer?