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@Beerdrinker85 This was 2016, I think? it was sitting in the bottom of the chest freezer from that 47 hops "trust us we aren't going out of business" going out of business sale. I had a bad experience with some Mandarina or Azacca from them. I wasn't expecting much to be honest here. I had 2...

Haha I’m in the same boat. I have way too many. I’m waiting until the Citra And mosaic are in stock, probably get some bru1 and maybe i7 ive been trying to brew whatever I can in 8oz increments even if unnecessary. Just did a Pilsner with 8oz of old huell melon. Didn’t get much any melon, and...

In case anyone missed the email. YVH confirmed they have 2020 amarillo, bru1 and ekuanot lupomax. I did validate they are all in stock this time around. YVH said more varieties to follow later this month.

I think you're 100% correct on all above, but at 45 bucks per test, if I was going to do these quarterly or similar, I would just buy an RO system, or buy 10 gallons at a time from the store. The difference, particularly with pH on the reported average I was using and my actual was too far...

Yes, relying on my one test is a risk, and I could send out multiple samples over the course of the year, but in the end I haven't found that necessary. If i was seeing lots of variability in my beers, or some unsolved "issue" i might point to the water. I drink tap regularly and go by the "if...

I got mine tested with Ward Labs last year, but when I first started I did use the SCWA report. I'm in zone 1 and just used the average reported values. there is considerable range in some of them, but hundreds of tests taken, so I was comfortable with the averages. Also as it turned out they...

@day_trippr has it right my wife’s great grandfather was a rheingold salesman and her great uncle kept a lot of the paraphernalia. He’s since gifted me several older items, one of which was a similar, copper lined, jockey box just like this one

FYI they little “syringes” for dosing kids pain meds are great for measuring 1-5ml. with two toddlers I have an abundance of them

Mash pH should be 5.3-5.5. The 6 noted earlier is just for sparge water. Are you using brunwater or something else? Brunwater makes the various goals very clear with color coded results

i think you have an error somewhere in your sheet. Assuming I found the correct recipe, it’s all Pilsner malt with a lot of honey added at flameout. My own water isn’t terribly different than yours (on Long Island) and a recent Pilsner I did required several ml of 88% lactic to get to 5.3. I...

Why baking soda and acid? Those dk opposite things, you shouldn’t need both. I think you’re fine with the 3 base malts, but I’d drop the caramunich to like half that. I just did a 4.5 gallon batch of octoberfest, mostly 10L Munich (7lbs) and a little Pilsner (2lbs), with 8oz caramunich. It’s not...

2020 lupomax is live on YVH. Citra, mosaic And sabro like last year. They added equanot, amarillo so far. YVH IG story also says they should have BRU1 but not showing available yet. A couple more varieties to go edit: I had assumed that if the varietal wasn’t crossed out it was available. That...

Mines top shelf but not by the compressor, I’ve seen Things freeze in that zone. Still took more than a week for sure

I asked imperial this same question and they said don’t decant it. My overbuilt starters eventually clear in the fridge, but it takes weeks or months.

I have revived yeast this old several times. I like to do a 500ml at halfish strength 1.025 ish then a 1L at full 1.040, followed by a 2L at 1.040. I would say without fail the first 500 shows almost no activity but at the 1L stage it takes right off I’d try stepping it up

Haha, treehouse lets me down all the time. That treehouse taste of the core beers is just too similar. That said I love the curiosity beers and their offerings that don’t use the standard yeast profile. I’m with you on trillium though Brooklyn’s ddh citra showers from a couple weeks ago was...

Brooklyn has a centrifuge, perhaps it was a bad can but unless their sop suddenly changed, yeasty is highly unusual @Dgallo never knew about the tabs that’s nifty. I agree with tour assessment about roc, not nearly the same pop. They aren’t bad but they certainly aren’t blowing me away. Makes...

Just to be clear you removed those grains after steeping at 149 right? what temp were they removed at, if yes. The dry/bitter sounds like it could be tannin extraction. That would definitely have happened in the first beer with the steeping grains being boiled. Not sure how tannin extraction...

Before i get into it, I now agree that in today's usage Cryo is effectively the same as T45 I did some quick research just now (since i had never seen t45 marketed to homebrewers) seems that T45 was primarily targeted at high alpha "bittering" hops and reducing absorption loss at the commercial...

you would think, but look at the lemondrop, the low is .7. I get that its a lower oil hop but for concentrated product you'd expect that to be much higher as well. also, you had commented earlier that Cryo and T45 were the same, but is that actually the case? do we even have t45 available to...