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B - I'm curious. At the end of your fermentation, how much carbonation do you have in the fermenter? With an air trap, the beer should be at 1 atmosphere of pressure, with no significant dissolved CO2 to bubble out during SG readings.

Get a cheap home water test kit. See if you have metals (copper and iron pipes leach cations (charged metal atoms) that can affect taste, well water may have metals like calcium or magnesium that hardens the water. If you have water drop stains on your glasses or soap scum buildup in your tub...

Standard chemistry speak for the elemental or molecular components of dissolved salts. Anion (negatively-charged ion such as Chloride, Oxalate) or Cation = positively charged (Sodium, Calcium, Copper). Every source of water will have some dissolved salts. The relative amounts is what...

They're very similar to midi-chlorians, the source of the Force, or prions that cause mad-human disease. Hydrophobins, like prions, are proteins theorized to corrupt good proteins to the bad side, perhaps making brews into foaming terrors. These proteins are able to assemble spontaneously into...

Thanks for the welcome. Thus far, the BEERmkr has been a lot of fun. I'm much more used to carboy extract kits or winging it with an extract recipe, so having everything compact, clean, and down to 6L of beer is a bit different. I found a thread on the BEERmkr elsewhere here on the forums...

I reached out to Joe in their customer care - he told me they haven't received restock of the white valves, but recently got greys in. I didn't think to ask about getting invoiced for pre-stock, thanks!

Just started a Festivus kit for the BEERmkr. I know, I'm like 7 months early, but it was on my shelf and I'm still just learning with this gadget.

For the investor / early retirement folks: here's a neat bit on robo-advisors and Tax-loss harvesting: Be Your Own DIY Zero-Cost Robo-Adviser!

I didn't see mentioned, but inexpensive hydrometers are often not calibrated precisely, or the paper gauge within may shift if the hydrometer is dropped and not broken. This usually isn't a big deal, as we are measuring the relative difference between starting SG and ending. If we were being...

I like all of these. My semi-R retail stint really opened my eyes to how institutionally twisted our corporate 'values' have become. Far too much 'feed the shareholder' and no vision for how feeding the staff, the customers, and the community would equate to longer-term real benefit for all...

One of my semi-retirement side gigs was working for a certain hardware store chain. I say 'semi' because I really don't like the R-word. Retirement seems to kill people early. Also seems to be a bit scammy, to get the competent-'though-grey crowd out of the job pool in the same way we use...

Not even close, friend. There are many parts with not much more basic education than how we perceive Pakistan. Sure, ~40% have a college degree of some kind, but we have large swaths of very uneducated folks here in the US. And having a university degree here doesn't mean knowledgeable by any...

I've driven by for years, never popped in. Right across from Meredith College.

Cool. It really comes down to personal taste. Inputs -> time/temp -> Outputs. I've made a couple of 10%+ batches, and have to say I've backed off from adding in that extra kg or more of malt or extract. My favs now tend to be 5-8%. Standardized to a 19L (5gal, because here in the US, metric...

Well, you can make GREAT beer without measuring the ABV - so take heart. Historically, brewers just got a feel over time (or a taste). We're helping the yeasties make beer, not distilling paint stripper. If you put your kit together, it burps for a week or three, you bottle or keg it and let...

When I first started homebrewing, I was in grad school for Chemistry. We had one natural foods / homebrew supply store off of N Main St. As the drinking age had risen to 21, quite a few undergrads in Chemistry had figured out it was easier to homebrew in their dorm rooms than try to buy beer...

You know you didn't... :)

What gives you pause? The bags mechanically failing or biological contamination in some appendix-like nook corner. As you mentioned, a good sterile rinse *should* kill the nasties, but life tends to find a way particularly when we don't want it to.

Oh -- I came so close to doing this on my very first batch! Luckily, I'm slow to dump my brewing closet refuse can. Starting prepping for the second batch, realized there aren't white valves included in the brown paper sack for a mkrkit, and gently schooled myself over accounting for parts...