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Oak chips would be post ferment during aging - you could certainly do that. As for the rest - buy a Zymatic :-)

They definitely don't consider it a typo - I've confirmed with their support guys they recommend pitching hops after 3 days. I guess if you are FF at high temps and the wort is perfectly aerated etc etc maybe it's possible? I just don't see any advantage to them being aggressive with the...

Great that your posting these - I find it very difficult to navigate the Facebook threads. She is stressing the same thing that the official support did to me - strongly aerating the wort is also key. I was always worried about stirring or shaking it too much.

That's great news, but I wonder if that's also an admission that the dry hopping has not been going well?

I just ordered a vial of white labs WLP001, so I'll use that for my third batch of deaf turtle and my pliny. The Pliny is so big that I expect the liquid yeast will really help there.

If I can source liquid yeast through Pico, or if I can get it locally I'd certainly try it. One of the reasons I never got into home brewing is I find sourcing some of the more exotic grains hops and yeast is a real pain in the butt in Canada. With a picopak I know I have everything I need.

Overpitch according to who - you said half a pack :-) I'm sure it will be much closer to ideal anyways. I noted the yeast pack says for 20-30L! So yeah, we should probably be pitching a quarter or less. Everyone seems really happy with the Kermode IPA, I'll probably try that next. When the...

I pitched the yeast on my Deaf Turtle batch tonight. I've been told to pitch half the pack, or 1 teaspoon - problem is that according to my teaspoon there were almost 4 teaspoons of yeast in the pack. So I pitched about 1.5 teaspoons. Thoughts? I also aerated with a whisk beforehand until...

Just checked tonight - you are 100% right :)

Understood. I'll be waiting for someone to craft a decent Three Floyd's Gumballhead clone recipe - it should be simple since its not much more than a straight up american wheat ale highly hopped with Amarillo. Problem is, there's no Wheat malt or Amarillo hops in the tool yet :)

The problem with that is: 1) The Freestyle pak software currently has a pretty limited set of ingredients 2) It may never have a very wide set of ingredients, forcing you to substitute ingredients in recipes resulting in unpredictable outcomes 3) The Zymatic recipes may not scale properly just...

I don't think that's true? I seem to be able to attach a gas lock fitting to either post. I'll check again tonight to confirm.

Do the keg posts have different thread sizes/pitches? In other words, is it possible to thread them on the wrong side?

quick question - are the ball lock pieces for the liquid and gas on our brew kegs identical? I disassembled everything to sanitize and they looked the same so I didn't pay any particular attention. Now I'm reading that in some cases they may be different. Note I'm not talking about the dip...

What you are asking for seems to be contradictory - you want ready to go recipes, those are PicoPaks. You want to experiment with your own recipe, thats that the Freestyle Pak is for. If your complaint is that there aren't enough PicoPaks available right now, that will be remedied over time...

I sprinkle it dry into the wort. I'll aerate before and afterwards next time.

I have been corresponding with them through my last couple batches of beer. I suggested to them they should definitely update their documentation based on the instructions above regarding amount of yeast and fermentation/hopping times. The response was: - pitching extra yeast should make no...

I just bounced some of this feedback back to the Pico support team, and they were a little dodgy about the benefits of pitching less yeast, fermenting for more time, pitching hops later, etc. Pretty much what I expected. One thing they did stress - Aerate that wort! Definitely stir the wort for...

It's frustrating that she recommends we all need subscriptions to homebrew magazines. No, what we needed were instructions that were accurate and not completely wrong on almost every step!

I assume that, when using FF adapter, a good keg shake works just as well as whisking the yeast in.