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Does anyone have a source for Acid 5? We were able to find PBW no problem, but I only found one online retailer selling the Acid 5 and they charge $25 + $20 shipping. I spoke with Five Star directly, and they would charge $40 for 4x 1 gallon jugs, but shipping was $60 :confused: They referred me...

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Thank you! Appreciate the help. To update: Five Star was really helpful, and we're just waiting on the PBW and Acid 5 to get shipped. They were willing to walk me through a lot of the steps, dilutions, and temperatures as well. My business partner passivized the kettles today with a good...

Thanks Wayne. Appreciate the help. So after doing some research, what they sold me was some .2N (I don't know what N is, I thought it was measured in 'M' for molar, but whatever) NaOH that was part of a PH testing kit of some sort. Clearly they had no idea what they were talking about, even when...

Thanks for the info. We already have NaOH solution and citric acid. Can we use these to prepare our kettles, or did we just waste the money? Also, the NaOH I have is liquid, in a blank bottle, with no MSDS or any accompanying information. I understand that this stuff is very dangerous, and...

Sorry to ask the dumb questions, but I've been googling for days, and read the sticky, and I'm still not clear. We have some of the unopened drums from Bubba's Barrels. They are 18G SS and 50 gal. We had the lids cut off and all of our ferrules and necessary welds done. Now we're...

Me too. A local brewer uses Chinook as the bittering charge in ALL his IPAs. Really distinct, almost rye-spicy flavor. I think it does have a place in IPAs though, a lot of really good ones use it. Maybe a light 30 minute addition for just a little bit of bite? I agree. I think a lot of...

Two more questions I was curious about: 1) what were everyone's experiences using different hops for 60 min bittering? (Not ctz/Columbus, but ones like chinook, ahtanum, fuggles?) 2) experiences scaling a recipe up to 15 gal + ? How to calculate amount of hops in beersmith (or other software)?

Recipe was: (in EACH mash tun) 6# Maris, 0.5# each: choc, c60, roast barley, flaked oats, flaked barley, 0.25# choc rye. 5.3 gal strike water in each. Beersmith says 1.2 gal absorption (each MT). So, theoretically, I should've had 8.2 gal total in the boil kettle. pre-boil vol was just...

That's what I'm starting to think. Maybe I could use dental floss and tie it to the rubber O-Ring on the spear? That way it'd hang down in the beer, but not low enough to get stuck on the tube. It'd be really interesting to see how that'd fit in there though I don't know if a screen on the...

Thank you for the graphic. I'm a visual learner, so that helped a lot. I was basically thinking exactly what you said - only I wasn't using the wort in series (wort from MT1 goes to sparge MT2. Sparge from MT1 goes to sparge MT2, then into BK, etc). Unfortunately, this experimental brew...

Anyone have any recommendations for avoid the dry hop bag blocking the tube in a sanke keg? We've been having a hell of a time transferring the beer due to the bag getting stuck. I usually just weigh it down with a stainless steel fitting, but once we start trying to transfer the beer it goes...

Neither, really... I'm confused on what the ACTUAL meaning of the term "double mash" is. If you google it, all results are REITERATED mashing, which seems to be a colossal waste, IMO. Washing the grain bed with wort isn't going to extract as many sugars as just using sparge water would (at...

Well here's what I'm planning for the experiment: 2 separate mash tuns. In EACH: 6# maris 8 oz ea of Flaked Barley, Flaked Oats, Roasted Barley, C60, Choc. (Could add some flaked wheat or choc rye here - would prob not use rye, I don't like the spiciness) using a little over 5 gal...

Not sure how to set sparge volume to 0. I did just experiment with changing the "Amount of water to add" portion in the mash design. I can just enter in whatever, and make the numbers work from there, so that may actually work... That does create a pretty crazy water/grist ratio though (2.4...

This. Two separate MLT's with false bottoms. Grain bill split in half, with half going into each. I'd like to collect the desired amount (~7.8 gal - 2 hour boil) into the boil kettle from the combination of both 1st runnings (from each MLT). I'll look at the BIAB option stated above...

I'd like to try an experiment on a stout and do 1st runnings only. I have access to a second mash tun, so I could just split the batch in half and do half in each mash tun. The problem I run into there is how to enter things into beersmith and figure out volumes, strike temps, etc. When I...

^ Follow up to that... how would I measure out the recipe? if I'm doing two separate mashes, would I just split the recipe in half and put half the grains/strike water/sparge water in each of the two mash tuns? Then collect appropriate volume in the boil kettle?

Just to be clear... what is "double mashing" ? I've read that it is the same thing as "reiterated mashing", which was explained as basically sparging with the 1st runnings instead of just hot water. That doesn't make sense to me, as you'd lose a lot of sugars and efficiency in doing it...

We had a lot of pale/IPAs come out bitter when we started brewing a bunch back in the day. There were a few things we found, but since you're saying the beers are good at FIRST, then deteriorate into a bitter mess, I'd look at your bittering additions first. It may be that your aroma/flavor...