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Yeah, holy crap that is a lot of roasted grain....which also could be part of the reason it stopped higher than expected.

My neighbor with the LBMB.

The size of the keg doesn't matter. I have a mixture of 2.5, 3 and 5 gallon kegs. All gas lines are 5/16" and all liquid lines are 3/16".

Check out the iSpindels if you haven't already. They have built in WiFi and a rechargeable battery. The rechargeable battery is necessary because of the power consumption.

It definitely went off the rails, haha. My apologies to the OP. @bwible, I'll say one more thing on the subject of the Tilt regarding accuracy, then we can move this to a new thread if necessary, lol. I never count on them to be completely accurate, I always consider it more of a monitoring...

If it had internal storage, processing and WiFi capabilities, the battery life would be ****. I literally JUST replaced the batteries on the first two I purchased around three years ago.

I’ll give just one example of how they have been useful. I had to go out of town several months ago and I had a lager fermenting in a temp controlled fridge on a WiFi Inkbird. I was able to monitor fermentation and when the SG got within about 5 points of expected FG, I adjusted the temp on the...

RaspberryPi integration is only one option. There are Android and iOS Tilt apps that offer quick monitoring of SG and temp right out of the box….literally no “hacking” or tweaking. It’s more than bling if you have a use for it…just like anything else. For me, it’s been very useful over the few...

During active and especially aggressive fermentation, the Tilt is simply a victim of its environment. In my mind, it doesn't make it unreliable, you just have to take into account the environment. The more data points you have, the more "unreliable" it'll seem because of krausen and the storm...

81 posts....oops, 82 posts later and we have made no progress? Damn, this hobby is time consuming as hell.

Definitely a good beer, but I wouldn't call it anything special. I live a couple hours from there and wouldn't make a special trip for it. Their Dancing Man Wheat on the other hand...that is a really great beer IMO. Regardless, I can't think of many beers I would pay that kind of money for. It...

Oh I know and understand that. The comment was directed at those who question why anyone wastes time making starters. What may be ideal for some brewers is not ideal for others.

That was my concern as well, but I have found dry yeast to be so robust that with a reasonable cleanliness, sanitation and storage routine, it's a lot harder to screw it up than we think.

Well call me crazy, but I'm not going to rack an IPA onto a Hefeweizen yeast cake or a porter onto Saison yeast.

I have only had a hand full of hazies that I really enjoyed, but overall I'm not a big fan of them. I have brewed a couple, but mostly for other people and once as a challenge because I was told that they couldn't be bottle conditioned without having an oxidized mess in a couple of months (I won...

I can't tell from the first photo what the "floaters" look like, but it's not unusual to have things floating in your beer after fermentation. It could be yeast rafts or something. Do you have a hydrometer or refractometer to be able to check the gravity of the beer? That is the most certain way...

I use dry yeast when I can, but unfortunately, even as far as dry yeast has come in quality and variety over the years, there sometimes is just no substitute for a particular liquid yeast.

Let me clarify first of all that I am referring to liquid yeast, not dry. I never have and would never make a starter with dry yeast unless I was desperate. At $10 (or more) per pack of liquid yeast, there is definitely some savings with liquid yeast starters. Plus, I overbuild starters and save...

I agree with staying away from the dual scale models, mainly because it causes confusion with new brewers and final gravity readings. However, in addition to the Milwaukee digital refractometer I purchased a couple years back, I still have the first refractometer I ever purchased - a $20 model...

I have the same one, and while it is easier to read, I agree with @DBhomebrew.