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Campden Tablets!!!

Might not be what you’re looking for but Beersmith has a tool that would work for you. You can enter in the same Bru’nWater information in Beersmith recipe/water tab (source water and salts added) and the pH adjustment is under the Mash tab I believe. I haven’t played around with it much, but...

It was my first time brewing; I was racking my wort to the fermenter with a siphon hose. I rinsed my mouth out with gin before I did it just to be safe. Once the wort hit my mouth, it surprised me so much that I spit it out into the fermenter bucket. I didn’t even realize my error until I was...

This is FANTASTIC. It tells me that if I set my kegerator at 36f (which I do) and I want 1.3 vols CO2, then I should set the gauge pressure to 37.3! I love it! I just hope it's correct!

My assumption is that you multiply the pure CO2 psi by the reciprocal of the percentage of the % co2 your beer gas is. So for example if you want 2.1 vols of co2 and you are using 30% co2 beer gas and your kegerator is at 36f: beersmith calculates 6.15 psi needed. multiple 6.16 x (1/0.30) =...

So here's the big question: do you always keep the pressure on your keg at 35 psi, or do you turn it way down so it doesn't over-carbonate? If I'm doing the math correctly, 35 psi of 30%co2 would put your carbonation at 2.5 vols @36f I'm worried about over-carbonating, but you seem not to have...

I can't find a good answer to this question even though I know it's been asked in many different ways 1000s of times. So here I go. If I have a stout that I want to be carbonated to 1.8 vols, the pressure to carbonate the beer with 25% CO2 beer gas is still much lower than the desired serving...

It's for BeerSmith, but it needs some massaging before it will work. Open the file with a text editor, and replace the top line with this "<Style><_PERMID_>0</_PERMID_>" Then remove the .txt ending so it's just .bsmx Then within BeerSmith go to file and open, and open the file where you have...

So, I found some Hopshot hop extract I purchased and forgot about, so I decided to brew a beer with it. Despite reading many times on this forum not to actually taste it directly, a minuscule amount got on my figure, so, of course, I licked it. 💀☠️💀☠️ A slow build up of mistake!

Wow, thank you, thank you, thank you! Got them imported! You really worked hard on this, thank you for sharing!

For my wedding I did Till Death Do Us Porter, and It’s Wedding Saison

What are "cleansing gravities?" Is that the gravity when casked with the assumption that it would continue to ferment for carbonation?

Would you mind sending me your Beersmith Victorian Era style profile? I'm very interested.

After extensive research, including much from the references given to me above (thank you!), I have written what I think is a very good approximation of an 1830-40s Mild Ale. Thankfully, a historical malt is available (Chevallier) based on the only pale malt that should have been available to...

Wow no kidding about the Chevallier malt, GREAT recommendation!

I just bought two of his books. They are very interesting and I am very happy to have them as a reference. The recipes could not be simpler, but I know the qualities of the ingredients have changed. A 100% pale malt beer would look and taste VERY different today compared to the 1830s. Now, I...

It was the best of beers, it was the worst of beers…

In The Pickwick Papers, Genuine Stunning Ale is mentioned, so my working name is Genuine Stunning X for now. Chat GPT told me that, so I’ll have to verify, plus it sounds like a good read. Correction: it’s actually in David Copperfield

I unknowingly was reading one of his blog posts about mild while researching. I just looked his name up officially after you mentioned it and wow. Very glad you mentioned it!

My wife, inspired by her recent reading of Charles Dickens novels, asked me to create a beer based on Dickens. Excited by the challenge, I decided on a mild ale as it seems to be the most likely ale he would have been drinking at the time. However, after researching Victorian-era mild ales...