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If you have a buddy in a brewery you might be able to get him to get you a bottle of PAA, otherwise your out of luck. Tetraacetylethylenediamine (TAED) reacts with Hydrogen Peroxide to generate Peroxyacetic Acid. It's a common laundry detergent additive when used alongside active oxygen...

The yeast will ferment out your starter wort and settle to the bottom of the starter vessel. When you're ready to pitch decant most of the starter wort off the top of the settled yeast. Swirl and pitch. There's no set schedule. If you want to decant starter wort then you just need to watch for...

Turning lemons into lemonade. Well done. Just keep these threads coming and we'll all keep making lemonade together.

Don't worry. I don't think that rumor made it past anyone who read it.

I don't know who's messing with who anymore.

ABV=(og-fg)*131.25 you don't need a whole app for that

I've got a recipe that involves smoked oysters that might pair well with that one.

I just read this entire thread with great relish. 1. There is nothing normal about anything you've claimed or implied. 2 & 3. This is an online forum so buckle up before you post. 4. No one's calling you a liar. I for one sincerely hope it's all truth.

It seems more involved, but it's cleaner and easier than autosiphons. Like they said above, if you're already kegging then you've probably already got most of what you need and after you have the rest autosiphons will be a thing of the past.

The better your efficiency the less grain it'll take to achieve the same target gravity. In home brewing the difference in grain consumption is negligible and just amounts to bragging rights. In a production setting higher efficiency means lower production costs where 90% brewhouse efficiency or...

To be honest I'm not terribly familiar with BeerSmith because I've never paid for it so I should've chosen my words more carefully. I've used the interface once or twice while looking at a buddy's recipes and I know it competes with Brewer's Friend. My sheet solves for top up volume (when...

Even Sodium Hydroxide and engineered caustic soda blends at 180+*F don't get tanks completely clean all the time in production settings. Brewing is a labor of love for professionals and hobbyists alike and there's no way around the inglorious necessity of cleaning up yeast mess like a baby's...

Sodium Sesquicarbonate isn't necessary. Sodium Percarbonate will yield the same thing and is much easier to obtain. You'll need an oxidizer, a sequestrant, and a buffer. Sodium Percarbonate is the primary ingredient in most oxygen-based cleaners and is very commonly used in alkaline cleaners as...

Beer smith does't do anything you can't scratch out on a piece of paper. All the formulas are easily accessible and you can spend a few minutes making your own brewlog spreadsheet that does exactly the same things that beersmith does for free. Give me your 100 dollars and I'll give my sheet. it...

jimmayhugh has an excellent point about the top port and clamp. Weldless fittings work fine on hot side equipment, but fermenting on weldless fittings is asking for problems. If you're dead set on modifiying a sanke to have fittings I'd take it to a welding shop and ask them what it would cost...

Set your controller to your target D-rest temperature and let the beer "free rise" on it's own. How fast or slow it rises doesn't matter as long as it does rise

It's not uncommon for preboil readings to be off if the wort isn't mixed well. It's more common on a production scale where the volumes are much larger and stratification can be a real issue, but the same principals apply to any volume. Refractometers are pretty inaccurate as it is, but they are...

Was wanting to compare my records with the average % loss other people are experiencing on their equipment between pre boil volume and post boil volume. Thanks in advance.

The increase in volume will have the effect of lowering the IBU contribution of all of your hop additions which obviously won't solve your problem. Unless you augment that early addition with another hop variety you're going to have to settle for a slightly less bitter beer, but again the...

Making it a 75m addition would take it from 3.7 to a hair over 2 IBUs difference if you didn't change the weight. If you have a little bit of some other fairly neutral hop laying around like Magnum then you could calculate a 60m addition @ 3.7 IBUs and add it to your Fuggles. Such a small amount...