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How’d the probe location change work out?

Posted up out front. Literally.

Did you do staggered nutrient or just the initial pitch? Did you aerate/de-gas a few times per day when fermentation was cranking? Just trying to get an idea if the yeast achieved to their potential. My calculation shows almost 12%ABV, so it’s kinda close to the max for that yeast. At this point...

I think taping it to the wall is an inefficient method, since there may be a cooling coil inside/near that part of the wall. In other words, that part of the wall might be getting to your set temp but that doesn’t reflect the actual temp of other parts of the chamber, including your keg. Best...

Ah, duh! Fruit and Spice is literally exactly what you’ve got haha. Not sure how I scrolled right past that. Glad I bumped the thread back up to the top for OP

Latest batch. The bubbles are attached to the oak spiral.

I’d do M4C Experimental because it says “characteristics may reflect combinations of the respective elements of the various sub-categories used in this style.” I take this to mean that you have components of a fruit mead and a Spice/Herb mead mixed into one. Keep in mind it “should exhibit the...

What do you stick your temperature probe into/on? Wondering what would happen if you tape it to the keg and insulate the outside of where it’s taped. Also, what do you have the temp controller’s compressor protection setting set to? I wonder if you accidentally had it set too low and burnt out...

One thing to mention is that some trub and yeast will get into the floating dip tube during fermentation. I simply connected low pressure co2 to that post prior to cold crashing so that junk got blown out and didn’t get slurped into the keg.

That’s loss expected no matter what method you use for racking. There’s no additional loss due to the use of the floating dip tube, IME.

No loss. The draw tube continues to go down and WILL collect trub at the end if you don't stop the flow when you get there. I love the floating dip tube and recommend it, but don't have experience with the racking cane option.

Fun idea - I’m jealous! my initial thoughts were: 1. might want to re-think beer pong unless you’re doing the water-in-cups method. Even so, you’ll have to stand directly next to someone for both that and cornhole. Hard to socially distance with those, especially beer pong where you have to be...

Shoot for 168F, but it’s not super critical. It can help improve efficiency, maybe because the liquid is less viscous, maybe simply because you spent more time sparging to get there.

Congrats on the successful brew. Just a couple thoughts: 1. Are you letting the wort continuously trickle as you vorlauf, or are you starting and stopping the valve? You might consider getting a larger vessel in place of a single Pyrex measuring cup. I had a 1-gallon Rubbermaid pitcher and a...

Hoping to hear back from Stealthfixr about how the beer turned out, what pitch rate and temp was used, percentage of simple sugars in the grist, and the resulting sour. I was given a free pack of this, and my typical batch size is 5gal, but I could do a smaller batch to maximize potential if...

Forgot to mention in my edit above that it was definitely the missing o-ring on the Fermonster lid at fault. All is well - thanks!

Thanks. I guess this one will be chalked up to a loss since ~2 gallons of starsan appeared to have transferred to the bucket solely because of the siphon I started. Good thing it’s just a Pilsner as my test subject. Ready for a NEIPA next time. edit: it has fully emptied the keg and is blubbing...

Funny - I just decided to add some keg lube to my keg lid and fermonster o-ring before your reply. In doing so, I discovered that brewhardware.com never included an o-ring inside my solid lid when I ordered it back in March. I just slapped in the o-ring from my other lid with the airlock hole...

Alright so I am attempting the full blown system with fermonster lid connected to a keg filled with star san emptying into a bucket. I cannot seem to find a leak anywhere with a star-San spray test on all connections, yet I’m not generating enough pressure to push the starsan from the keg to my...