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When filling a keg, my method to ensure no O2 ingress is to put a picnic tap on the gas post and periodically bleed pressure to maintain flow. Like the purge valve on a CP bottling rig. This also ensures that things don't get away from me if I step away.

Obviously, there's something way more interesting than your beer off to the left...

I consider 0.02 shift (either direction) locked in. 0.2 I'd stop yawning.

Carlsberg promotes Elephant as a Pilsner now? Seems to me when we used to get $#!? faced on it in high school it was considered a pale Bock. Thought it was a hair stronger then too.

Yep.

There's exactly the can of worms I expected to pop open. Martin, you and I have both tracked pH throughout a similar, huge, number of mashes, and seen opposite patterns. I see it locking in early, you see significant shifts. I may never figure out why. But either way, are we in agreement...

The sap really is running. Expecting probably the biggest year on record here in Ohio.

I've found those "universal" poppets are universally unreliable. You can go to Chi Company or other suppliers and get proper OEM posts and poppets.

I find I need a good 10 minute boil to fully dissolve the DME and nutrients (Wyeast, Fermaid, whatever.) That's when the wort looks nice and clear and I quit and chill.

Please remember to report results. This is an interesting idea.

I live for the brief intervals between shoveling snow and mowing grass. Arizona is my new fantasy land.

I, for one, envy his vacation from connectivity. [emoji41]

Whirlfloc just binds and removes protein on chilling the wort post boil, it doesn't have any effect on yeast down the road. Hence your clearer beer (colloidal haze addressed) but "fluffy bottoms" (actual brewing term) not explained. One suspect eliminated.

The ones I linked aren't actually disposable, both take replacement blades. And they're sturdier than you might expect. What is really hard to find is a well designed straight blade lame, and I do like the M & P. Lots of good curved ones are available, but I rarely do baguette style...

If you can rig up a way to backflush, that should surely help the cause.

You eat spiders, or befriend them?

Eyes on the side of the head: food. Eyes facing front: better make friends fast. (Is there a curried goat emoji?)

I've ruined a stone with PBW. It can leave a mineral deposit that clogs the pores, such that no acid rinse can sufficiently penetrate and remove it. For both cleaning and sanitizing stones, I use a good long soak in iodophor. This is an excellent cleaner, working like its halogen cousin...

Water rarely supports anything that can spoil beer. Totally different environments. DME alone is very hygroscopic, which makes it difficult for anything to take off in it in the bag (same as honey or any other syrup.) If they were along for the ride, which they likely are (packaging of DME...

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