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Got my melanoidin , 3 way TC valve, gaskets and clamps. Now waiting for the spunding valve to arrive tomorrow so i can put my spikes cf15 thru its first pressure fermentation lager.

I was thinking of trying to speed up the aging by leaving the beer at room temps on Co2 for a few months to see how it would come out and hope it would speed up the process.

2 years?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ya killing me smalls.

Well my stuff will all b here wednesday so this weekend ill try and get some lager yeast and get to it. All i have is wlp San Francisco lager yeast. Wanna fetment it at 68 at 15 psi, all my spikes can handle.

I run my hefe temps in the 74 range.

How long do you all age your for? Ive read anywhere from a month to years. I dont wanna wait that long but im doing one next week and got the 530 all grown and ready to be thrown in.

I built my RODI myself, i wanted to start with nothing and ill add in minerals myself, but I wanted a clean slate. Now dont get me wrong, I left some RODI water in a lowes bucket for 2 weeks and opened it up and it was literally eating the plastic bucket slowly. So if you do go DI, make sure...

I have a 20 lb tank and 2 5lb tanks, the small tank stays in the chest freezer keeping the beer carbed and ready. The 20 lb tank is next to the kegerator feeding my 3 taps. Its been feeding it fo a year already lol.

as much as some brewers may shun it, add some erythritol. I started doing it cuz no matter what my chocolate stouts wouldnt get sweet. Less hops, higher mash temps, nothing would help, one cup( 5 gal) of erythritol and its been a savior for me.

Ill dive in with you man, im ordering some stuff to give it a try myself. Ordered a spunding valve . gonna get a 3 way TC valve and a bunch of clamps to do it in my spikes fermenter. Should have all the stuff in about 2 weeks but until then im gonna get everything ready.

I started with all grain and dont regret it one bit. If money isnt an issue, go all grain but you will spend more upfront on all grain IMO. Once you spend on everything, then its smooth sailing from there on out. Im using yeast i multiplied about a year ago and still have vials in the freezer...

Yeah just give it time, my 530 when being woken up takes about 5 days, they are some resilient critters.

LOL whats up with all the kolsch brews here? I just kicked my keg of kolsch yesterday and planning on doing another one next week lol. I need to get a quad done .

carafa 2 gave me close to Guinness flavor, backing off that a whole lot next time.

Ive noticed my stock of 3068 takes a few days to wake up from the glycerin mix.

If grainfather ever comes out itll be a good mill.

It would honestly make brew day prep so much easier because I can make a pseudo lager but also a super clean ale, ill by this buy the brick when its available.

Could also be that the beer is young, ive noticed that I have to let pils beers sit for a full 2 weeks for the yeast bite to go away, happens most of the time when I make a hefe.

Look at the color, cold wont keep it from oxidizing. If its a dark beer you might not notice and some co2 will bring it to life, if its a light beer and you see it dark its probably done for. My brother lost a beer i made him for having it off co2 for about a month and in the fridge.

I had a 6 month expired wlp 530, and for those who have worked with that yeast know its takes days to grow. This packet took 7 days to come alive but still worked perfectly. Yeast is some resilient stuff.