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Your survey is missing Bosch, which is a contender for DeWalt given the similar high quality for a lower price point, IMO.

Went really well, other than being slower to transfer than I could have imagined. Took about 15 minutes to transfer 4.75gal once the siphon started. My big diameter auto-siphon takes about 4 minutes or less, but I guess that’s unrealistic. I was able to get the regulator to pump just enough co2...

Didn’t get the lid until after fermentation started. Will do the whole shebang next time, but this plan is still better than a clogging spigot (my hops/trub are above the spigot level so it wouldn’t be ideal). Just gonna put the co2 tank on the fv gas-in at 3psi as my makeshift closed loop.

Appreciate it. With the spigot clogging several times, I think I end up exposing the beer to o2 anyway. With a fair mix of co2 in the headspace of the fv when it comes time to swap the lid (inside my ferm chamber which is also going to be filled with a good amount of co2), I’m thinking the...

Interesting! I would have never thought a transfer could take 90 minutes. Nor would I ever wait that long. I’ve done something similar in the past to what I plan to do tomorrow, but using tubing connected to the spigot and pressurizing the FV to ~3psi. This pushed the beer out and into the keg...

Thanks for the reply. This is where I’m not going full-tilt like others. I’m just fermenting like normal with my regular fermonster lid and a airlock (I only got the new lid built while fermentation was already underway). I connected a Mylar balloon to the airlock at the end of ferm so I could...

So I bought all the parts for this (I think), though I’m not going as full-tilt as some. I wonder if someone can help me with a sanity check that this will work: I’ve got the fermonster with spigot, two kegs posts drilled into the solid lid, and a floating dip tube connected to the underside of...

It means pounds. For percentage just divide each number by 9.5 (the total number of pounds of grist in the recipe); so 47.3% Golden Promise, 21% each flakes wheat and torrefied wheat, and 10.5% flakes oats, in this case.

Sure. It was a 5-gal batch (volume into keg) with 4.5# golden promise, 2# torrefied wheat, 2# flaked wheat, 1# flakes oats, and 18IBU of centennial at 60’ then a 5’ addition of 1.0oz centennial alongside the 1.0oz crushed coriander and 1oz sweet orange peel. I actually just redid this recipe but...

When is the last time you checked the gap on your mill? Same grains, perhaps from storage? You might also consider conditioning your grains before crushing, as I saw a bit of a boost (5%) from doing that. Just leave a pound aside to run through the mill at the end to clean out the knurling.

NEIPA with Idaho Gem and Cascade fermented with London Fog

AHA Big Brew (virtual) this weekend! Hoping my wifi range extender reaches to the back deck. Not brewing the AHA recipe, which requires ridiculous hops and malts (and also because I am kegging a NEIPA tomorrow), but instead brewing a brown ale. Anyone else doing this?

Did any of your previous batches prior to going to all grain use lallemand Belle Saison yeast? I would wonder if you have a diastaticus infection in your carboy? If not that yeast specifically, check the other yeasts you’ve used in your extract batches to see if they have a dia+ indicator...

You can use your beer bottling procedure with a few differences: 1) depending on the final gravity, you may want to backsweeten it if it’s too dry (assuming you don’t like it that way). I don’t know much about which iteration of the JAOM recipe you used, though if you used a champagne yeast, it...

It’s mead...

Been a while, but it worked for me when I tested it with a future batch after the forgotten one. Perhaps the problem is that one of the numbers for #gals in my equation is total must volume. Or maybe both? I forget - sorry!

Does the inside of a bottle get thoroughly cleaned through a 1/2” opening when it goes into a dishwasher? Just saying, there’s probably more effective ways to clean inside a dirty bottle. But, if they were new bottles this time, then probably not the issue. When you say hot rinse and wash, what...

Sounds like a potential sanitation issue with your bottling equipment. Tell us about your equipment and cleaning/sanitizing process. Is it a bottling bucket, and if so, how do you clean it each time (be very specific with agents and processes)? Do you use a bottling wand? If so, how do you clean...

You can definitely figure it out pretty close if you know how many lbs of honey and how many gallons of water you used. I’ve done the same thing because I mix up my mead each year at my Homebrew club’s annual Mead Day, which involves drinking past years’ meads and leads to forgetting things...

Won’t affect anything at all. I usually add sugar during the final 5 minutes. To give you some more peace of mind, I have forgotten the sugar altogether and added a boiled-and-cooled sugar solution into the fermentor at the end of primary fermentation, which reactivated the yeast and the beer...