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I run starsan thru my lines after every keg change but clean them after every other keg change. EVA barrier lines all the way thru, not for the microb properties but because they are super simple to connect and seal up. I even got the last straw bottle filler and connected some duotight...

This is what im waiting for in Tx too. As soon as it gets colder im gonna order a mountain of different yeasts to multiply out and save. I have a 2 year old yeast that was in the fridge and just in some wort that spun up in a day, bastards really are pretty resilient.

As someone said, use a permeate pump in the system. I used to run water thru my system and it would take so log to get water until i got the pump and changed the RO filter, now it pushes about 4 gallons an hour of RODI water to my kettle and sparge tank.

I have a year expired imperial Steffon and Gnome im gonna spin up and see if they happen to wake up, should be interesting.

Honestly man, this site is very very helpful and the people on here genuinely want to help. Ive been on another site that has to do with DE-STIHL-ING and god so many egos and people who just know it all. This is a refreshing site to be involved in

A Goyard wallet, nothing to do with brewing but it holds the cards that let me pay for brewing things lol.

I just use the Marks keg washer with the bottle washer attachment, woks very well.

A lot of people use Maltodextrin because the brewmaster who did the black is beautiful stout talked about how he used it so now everyone uses it. its not a bad thing its just another way to addbody, i still use carapils just cuz i havent had the courage to use maltodextrin in my brews until i...

Spunding valve lol. Way bigger than I really needed. ill snap a pic of it when i have it connected.

To thaw yeast i just throw the vial in a cup of water, it thaws in about 5 minutes. Never had a problem with that either, try the glycerin mix cuz it seems like you have a lot of brown cells vs glycerin.

Damn is everyone really using o2 in beer that much? I only really break mine out for high ABV beers, the rest go off without a hitch, but for my beer this week, im gonna have to break it out, westy 12 clone attempt. Also one 20lb tank should literally last you a lifetime, my regulator goes...

I dont think itll cause the yeast to go bad but you could possibly be stressing the yeast out when you grow it because a fast freeze will rupture the yeast cell wall and basically kill the yeast. So the ones that survive are trying to multiply and eat all the sugars that is way too much for...

DuncB, how is the Budejovice yeast? They have some at the LHBS and I was thinking of picking it up but dont see too much about it. My hefe is just about done so cleaning it is gonna be fun lol.

This thing.

Gonna give the Westy 12 a go tomorrow. Gonna get the water and grist going and set it to heat the water by 8am so i just wake up and mash in. Next week itll be my first pressure ferment lager.

LMAO i knew that was coming, if this hefe is dome in time this week ill do a simple recipe to try the pressure ferm lager, that way i dont blow thru some actual grains i wanna use for a good recipe build, ill take a reading of the hefe tonight and if its close to the FG, ill move it to kegs and...

Maybe the glycerin isnt completely pasteurized? I clean all my everything and make sure i dont leave the top open too long for the glycerin when im making my vials of yeast, but i do 50ml total, 25ml yeast and 25 glycerin mix, that way its around 100b in one tube. Ive made small vials and they...

I got a cf 15 going right now with a hefe in it. Next week itll at 15 psi for my very first lager.

This gives me a lot of hope with pressure fermenting. Gonna put this bad boy thru the ringer, was WAY bigger than i thought.

I I say do it. I went from reading online to all grain brewing and dont regret it at all. But for budget, whatever you planned budget is, multiply that by 1.5. Also buy main grains in bulk and specialty grains by the 5 or 10 pound bags, i rarely dont have something on hand when i brew, also...