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However, if you toss a couple sweet tarts in the glass as you drink the beer, you get all that sweet tart goodness in a crunchy sort of way.

Bullet point #1. Good advice but I just can't follow it. Brew night is much more fun with the guys over and some great beers. Unfortunately, it has led to many occurrences of waking up at 3 am wondering what I forgot to do during the brew. Fortunately, so far nothing so bad that it couldn't be...

Well, I bottled a few from my last IPA brew and fed each bottle 3 crushed up sweet tarts (the yellow ones). They definitely provided the sugars to bottle ferment but unfortunately did not add much, if any, flavor or sourness to the beer. Bummer.

Was just reading up on BE-256 on the Fermentis site and they specifically state in more than one place that BE-256 is from Belgium: https://fermentis.com/en/knowledge-center/expert-insights/beer/safale-be-256-questions-answers/

Below from the morebeer site on the page for BE-256. Not sure where they pulled that info from... Also says the same thing on the northernbrewer website....

Funnily enough, when I went to place an order, they were out of Lallemand Abbaye so I went with Fermentis BE-256. Seems like I read somewhere that BE-256 used to be called Abbaye. Wonder why the name change? Is the BE-256 the same strain as westmalle / westvleteren, etc?

You will enjoy it. Very good story.

A Belgian Quad is next on my list. I've got a good recipe that I have used before but since I live in a suburb of hell, ordering liquid yeast right now is out of the question (normally I would use Wyeast 3787), so I need to sub in a dry yeast this time. I am considering Lallemand Abbaye unless...

I compared those PID settings to my original manual (purchased Oct 2022) and they are the same. What changed in yours?

Sorry if I missed this already posted but can you explain the "latest manual PID settings" or point me to that post?

Trying to picture what is in the cooler... Is the chiller cooling down water in the cooler and there are pumps in the cooler sending that chilled water through the fermentation coils?

Be sure to buy a lottery ticket while your luck is running that high!

Ain't no doubt about it, we were doubly blessed. Cause we were barely 17 and we were barely dressed. Meat Loaf - Paradise by the Dashboard Lights

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My biggest gripe with my 120v AIO system was the ramp times. But I recently added a hotrod heat stick to my arsenal and put it in during ramp times (start to mash and mash to boil) and it cut those times in half, maybe more.

Stupid math

Just curious - how are you coming up with the amount of 1 gram dextrose per tart from that label?

To me, sweettarts have a sweet, acidic, fruit flavor. I think that would pair nicely with certain fruit-forward hops. think pastry sours, etc

good idea. I've got an NEIPA on schedule next so I will try this in a couple bottles when it is ready