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I just upgraded to a GrainFather and no longer need the following equipment: - 5G Igloo mash tun with 1/2 ball valve and stainless steel false bottom (http://www.homebrewing.org/5-Gallon-Converted-Igloo-Cooler-Mash-Tun-with-False-Bottom-_p_1005.html) - $50 - 3G Rubbermaid mash tun with 1/2...

Where did you read that? It's the first I've heard that they naturally carbonate their beers.

I can send you some money to offset your costs? I love everything about this thread and would like to support your research.

Kimmich confirmed that Heady Topper does, in fact, contain Amarillo. Confirms it at around 25 seconds into the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP_mg3r2O8w

Temperature control is pretty good. I have a fridge that's controlled using a Johnson temp controller. The temperature probe is taped to the fermenter and covered with insulation. There's also a fermometer affixed to the fermenter and I'm always keeping an eye on the temperature to make sure...

I actually tried the 66F starting temp and raise by 1 degree per day on a pale ale. It ended up with A LOT of undesired Belgian character. I'm letting it sit in the keg for a couple more weeks, but I put a bunch of Citra and Nelson in it and I literally cannot taste either though the Belgian esters.

Thomas Fawcett makes the 10L Caramalt.

Totally agree on the lack of Pearl malt in morebeer's recipe completely discounts them. Kimmich himself stated that Heady uses pearl as the base malt. How do you know they use Carafa (430L)? I thought it was widely accepted that they use TF Caramalt (10L)

I brewed the most recent recipe that uses comet. I think it's missing a lot of the fruit that I expect from Heady Topper. I don't think comet should replace Amarillo. Instead, I thin Cascade should replace Amarillo/Comet. I brewed the latest Pliny and the main hop is actually Cascade not Simcoe...

I'm interested to hear how this turns out. How did you last experiment turn out? Did you notice anything different in the final beer when pitching the recommended amount and not increasing the temperature by a degree each day?

That's a pretty high mash temp and conan still puts in work to bring it down to 1.012-14. For the record, the current iteration of Heady finishes at around 1.010. Do you have any pictures of the old Julius? I'd love to see them!

I was brewing a harvest batch of beer using Conan a month ago. It was the centennial blonde from this site and I didn't use my temperature control during the start of the fermentation. I think it was around 74F at the start and after I realized what was happening (~1 day since pitch) I moved the...

Where'd you get 10% of HT is corn sugar? I just made the clone and used 7% and I thought I was using more than normal due to my attenuation issues. Unfortunately, the thing only got down to 1.014

Thoughts on this video- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqP0m0wWdM0 Here are my thoughts - If the crew of HT is going to hop farm, I would assume that they're checking out hops they're going to use in HT. I haven't heard of anyone mention crystal being in heady topper, which is an aroma hop...

I have the issue on my two faucets - A1114G

Did you get any Belgian notes at these fermentation temperature? I accidentally fermented a blonde ale using Conan too warm (70F I think) and it now tastes like a light Belgian ale. Not bad, but not intended either.

I think my only comment is how are you purging the keg before transfer? If you're filling the keg entirely with starsan and pushing it out with CO2 then you're truly doing a closed transfer with no O2 exposure. If not, it would be difficult to purge the keg of O2 before the transfer. Cool idea...

If you mash low (148F) it won't finish that high. As far as I'm aware, most brew software doesn't take mash temp into consideration and just uses average attenuation for the estimated FG.

Great Summary. Here are a couple of things that caught my attention: 1 - I've seen a bag of CaraFoam at the brewery, which is very similar to Carapils, but provides a slightly sweeter taste. 2 - Simcoe is definitely not in Julius. How do I know this? Because Nate specifically said they are...