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I rarely dry hopped my beers because I always felt like there was a bite that took too long to go away. I relied on a ton of whirlpool hops which gave me a fantastic hop flavor, which I was after more than smell anyway. Recently I have done a couple dry hop during active fermentation batches...

I have never personally done that but have read enough of these types of threads that it works without issue. I also have little kids so I have personally tried the overnight mash to cut down on time, which was successful. Ultimately I ended up moving to full volume electric brew in a basket...

Grabbed a sample tonight, partially carbonated and it is very surprising how it feels like a full bodied beer at sub 1.00. it is easy drinking but very satisfying. I normally do not brew beers over 5.5% so will probably dial back in the future since this ended up around 6.8% but very happy...

Kegged tonight, 14 days after pitching yeast. Final gravity per tilt was under 1.0. Warm sample was incredible. Tasted like a pineapple heavy fruit salad. Can't wait to have it carbed up in a couple of days.

One thing you may want to consider is not only time to brew but time in front of the kettle. As someone with two kids I made the switch in the spring to full volume electric in order to have a less involved brew day. Right now I set the temp on the controller and walk away and deal with the...

On a separate thought, has anyone tried adding gluco to the keg to naturally carb?

After 4 days I was down to 1.011 where it stayed for 3 days. Added 5g per fermenter along with 2 oz of dry hops last night around 7, tonight around 7 seeing 1.001 to 1.000 on the tilt. I am surprised how fast it worked. I think I will add gluco with dry hops going forward with this style...

Tried my hand at this yesterday, added enzyme to the mash and unfortunately found out the temp probe on my controller was way off so mashed in at 162. Stirred and added some ice to get it down to 155 then left to go run errands for 2.5 hrs. Came home and it was down to 140 but guessing I...

Trying in water, nothing registering at all.

Just got mine. Does not appear to be working at all. Mostly shows no temp and when it does it's insane for being on my table..

Mine shows up tomorrow will hopefully put it to work this weekend

When I mashed in the house due to the cold outside I was good for a few paper towels each brew day but mostly used retired kitchen towels or even retired white undershirts that I laundered separately. On the more frequent than I would like days that I forgot to close a valve, I was good for a...

I would love to review one. Just had several thermometers break on me the same day causing some panic on my smoked brisket a few weeks back. Bought a couple manual backups but was looking into a new digital one and was thinking multi-probe would be nice for the times I grill up different sized...

I moved to electric this spring, 20g spike kettle, basket from Utah bio diesel, 5500w ripple element a controller from eBay, gfci in line from North shore safety. Couldn't be happier with the move. It has taken me some time to dial in but my brew day is so simple now. I have 2 little kids so...

I had this happen recently, I think it was due to my new ssbrewtech fermenter having machine residue despite tsp clean. My previous one had no problems but this one ruined 10gal bc I transfer first 6 gallons to one, then split it and then topped off both

I am randomly allergic to certain commercial beer in that I get very stuffed up in the matter or minutes and have sneezing fits. I almost exclusively drink pale ale, ipa or double IPA so it makes no sense other than a subset of hop varaties hit me the wrong way or variety of yeast.

I made one I think 2 gallon batch, I'd have to find the recipe but I used cocao nibs, fluff and half a box of Graham crackers. Graham crackers went into secondary. Turned out great, obviously you lose quite a bit to the crackers but flavor came through. If there is ever a next time I would...

The more concentrated the wort the lower hop utilization. Now you are boiling a less concentrated wort meaning more bitterness will be extracted. Simple adjustment is to use a small or zero charge at the beginning of the boil and move more later in the boil. Another option is to shorten your...

2.5 lb tank is fine, you will just be refilling more often, not a big deal. I have no idea how you would set up a post mix. No matter what you need to carbonate the water so no reason not to do it all at once in the keg. You don't have to change the tap but I suspect you will want to...

Okay then now this is making some sense to me. You need a mini fridge, corny keg, 5lb co2 tank, regulator, co2 line, beverage line, some disconnects (ball lock or pin depending on keg style), faucet (perlick or intertap). If I were you I'd consider one of those nostalgia kegerator, change out...