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"I have that hop burn as well. Super intense when taking a sample before kegging. I’m hoping it mellows out after sitting in the keg for a couple weeks, but it might be a lost cause. Thought I did everything right too..." This really caused me so many issues last year. When I started having...

I have found cold crashing a necessity in order to get the hops and yeast to fully drop. They still end up plenty hazy but lose the awful hop matter taste.

You just need to read this 164 page thread and you will be good to go :) https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/northeast-style-ipa.568046/page-164#post-8294539 I have been brewing nothing but NE IPAs for the last year and a half. Your grain bill looks solid. You want to keep it pale...

I would love to know this as well.

" all that aroma will be volatized and with so much yeast in suspension at high krausen most of the oils will be pulled down with the yeast when they floc." Have you read or watched any of the bruology eperiments? I have been really digging into them lately and they have basically disproved all...

I agree with others above, you need to pick one variable, any more and the results are out the window. Maybe first time try 3 yeasts, then next time you brew try 3 different hops, then next time try different hop rates, then maybe different dry hop intervals. etc.

I have a 14 gallon SS Brewtech Unitank with the FTSs2 heating and cooling temp control. I have been using it in my basement this winter where the temp has for long periods of time been in the mid 50s. I have had no issues getting the temp up to low 70s. If you are thinking conical I would go...

Very subjective and more dependent on what the anticipated crowd likes.

Yeah they happened more than once. 3-4 times. After the first couple I tried a blow off tube but that got all jammed up and still ended up oozing all over the place. By that point I was placing the fermenter in a 20 gallon tote and covering it with a towel to minimize the cleanup effort, lol...

This is the million dollar question. I think we all just kind of guess. Since so many people are doing it different ways, maybe there is no right/wrong answer. I have been doing a single hop addition on day 2 or 3 recently with good results. This batch I am trying 3oz on day 2 and 6 oz on day 3...

Thats a good question, luck I guess. Also I did have a LOT of explosions in my carboy fermenters due to the nature of WY1318 so maybe a lot of the hop matter was ending up on my walls, floors, ceiling etc and therefore was not as much left to cause an issue in those batches. That was one of the...

So its been a loooooong time since I last posted in this thread but figured it was time for an update. It took a long while but I finally got to the heart of the problem and have rectified the issue and have now made 4 straight very good batches of beer and the 5th seems well on its way. So...

SO I have to say the combination of the unitank + the glycol chiller has really gone a long way to helping me with my brewing. I start a little over a year ago. I started off ok and made a few real good beers out of the gate. Then things went south quickly and good batches became rare. I had no...

Just saw this thread pop up. I am going to say a year later that even with a unitank closed transfers to ball locks suck! I still have issues as all I make are hoppy beers. Its a lot better in that i do dump as much drub as possible but sometimes things still get through. Why cant anyone make...

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"Are you using the coil extensions for your half batch’s? Can I ask why you need to crash below serving temps? 40 is perfectly fine for yeast drop." I am not sure what you mean by coil extensions. SSBT recommends getting down to as close as 32 as possible for cold crash and more importantly for...

One thing I will say here, I can confirm the SSBT 14 gallon unitank can not properly cool a half batch, at least not with SSBT glycol chiller. I have done 3 straight 5 gallon batches and each time the lowest I could get to was around 38 f. This is in a room that has been between 55-60 f so...

Shipping these might prove to be difficult. They are fairly large and I am having a real hard time trying to find boxes that would fit that are not to crazy expensive. Hoping to find a local sale. Will ask at Mailboxes etc this week to see what they would charge to box it and ship it.

Shipping not included. Would need to find boxes etc. I liked them, just moved on to an SS Brewtech Unitank with complete temp control so have not used these since. Could look into shipping pricing.

And for cheaper. I got mine from amazon for like $25.