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I keep mine under pressure in the fridge for three weeks before pouring. Its usually carbonated after a week, however it develops a better/stabler flavor after conditioning for a few weeks. Yes, the first glass will be mostly yeast, I usually dump it. Think of this as that sediment in the...

A swamp cooler is a fan that blows across a wet medium to utilize evaporative cooling, similar to how your body cools down when sweat evaporates off your skin. What you have is more like a bucket of water. IMO, I think you're method works better than a swamp cooler, as air cooling isn't as...

Sorry for any misunderstanding. I was referring to rate of crash cooling after fermentation. Sort of the opposite of how a you raise a lager temperature at about 60% attenuation for a diacetyl rest, if there is anything below ale temperatures you would want to rest at (or avoid) while you're...

Can you get different fermentation/yeast flavors from different chilling rates? I was looking at glycol jacketed conical FVs (aka dreaming) and I started to wonder if you can achieve different flavors in ales by resting at various temps as you chill your beer, similar to a diacetyl rest with...

I Don't. Mostly because I avoid drinking anything made with DME.

So if you wish to expand or modify your brewery, the equipment not the building, like adding another fermentor or brute tank, do you have to do paperwork and get approval before you can do that?

Did you ever find a recipe?

Ok, I'm a little confused by this recipe. It says the boil size is 7 gal, but you mash in with 11.42 qt, and mash out with 6.40 qt. That's only 4.45 gal, wheres the other ~3gals coming from?