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    Low mash efficiency

    There is also glucabuster. I have a bottle and I have yet to try it on a hef or anything but will report back if I remember. https://www.morebeer.com/products/cellarscience-glucabuster-placeholder.html
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    Low mash efficiency

    Don't forget to get a set of feeler gauges with the two roller mill. Helps dial in the mill and confirm your settings are held after a few batches.
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    Best names for your beer batch?

    My cross between a Mexican Lager and a NZ Pils, Gringo en Sombrero.
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    Bottle Conditioned ‘Bombs’

    If you are down at 52 you are missing over half a gallon.
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    Bottle Conditioned ‘Bombs’

    When you say off by 3-4 bottles, do you mean you end up with 45-44 bottles finished? What a bunch of these recipes from vendors fail to take into account is that everybody's process is different, based on kettle sizing, boil off rate, transfer losses, etc. When I was still bottle conditioning i...
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    Parti Gyle Sparge Water Do I need to add salts? Should I?

    Recently did a partigyle. I'd say adjust the sparge water to target what you want the partigyle to be. My recent one was run off a big ol 14.7% stout. The partigyle beer was ok at first, then I added a smidge of acid and sodium to the finished beer and it came alive. I tested out my additions in...
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    Bottle Conditioned ‘Bombs’

    Does your fermenter have volume markings? You should really be adjusting down the amount of sugar for the amount you have going into bottles. As in if you were supposed to use 4oz for 5 gallons, but due to the heavy dry hop in NEIPA you only got 4 gal of beer to go into bottles you should only...
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    Hazy Trouble

    Where are you getting your hops from and how are you storing them? Hop quality is the biggest knob on getting these hazies as good as they can be. I've dealt with a dubious homebrew shop that would keep their 1lb bags of hops unrefrigerated next to a window. I stopped buying hops from them. I...
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    Fat washed spirit addition

    That is a deep enough rabbit hole in and of itself. What kind of coconut oil were you going to go with?
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    What no one wants to say

    I think the sentiment has been beaten to death but some of these businesses had to go. There are a heap of breweries I went to where the beers were mediocre at best. There once was a time I had 3 homebrew shops I could easily drive to, now the only reason I have a "local" shop is that I changed...
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    Blonde Ale Centennial Blonde (Simple 4% All Grain, 5 & 10 Gall)

    I've done this beer with H. Kveik. I didn't really like it, came out feeling a bit too thin on the mouthfeel.
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    1/4 BBL Sanke Fermenter

    Norcal seems to have something close to what I want. If I decide my current setup bugs me enough I'll drop them a call.
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    1/4 BBL Sanke Fermenter

    Bought mine a while ago before I realized Bobby sold one. Updating the link. Thought of it, got part way through designing a 3d printed tool to help with installation, then I decided it would be too annoying to clean and confirm cleanliness. Wish they made one of those heads with a thermowell.
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    Filtering wort from Foundry to fermenter

    Have you considered throwing in a hop spider at the end of your whirlpool time and then having the return tube drop into the hop spider to catch most of the junk, then letting things settle for 5 mins, then transferring out?
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    1/4 BBL Sanke Fermenter

    I am loving my 1/4 Slim sanke for fermenting, especially for lagers. I just wish I had a decent thermowell situation, but I am still making great beers with the probe taped to the side with a bit of insulation. I am also using the below linked instead of using the spear in the keg. Sanke Adapter
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    Opinion on this NEIPA dry hop

    Could be a solid DH combo. In terms of the burn, do you know how much chloride you have/added in your water?
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    Keeping ph in check during mash

    Are you running all this off PLC+HMI or do you have some other way of bringing the data into something like LabView?
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    Water profile question

    It is a knob to turn and see what you get. I just brewed my usual Kolsch but switched up the sulfate/chloride ratio around and it feels like a completely different beer. Went high on the chloride side this time and it is missing that snappiness and the hops are less pronounced despite same...
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    Water profile question

    The beers feel flabby? Feel like you are missing that snappiness in certain styles? You could mess with that with your sulfate/chloride ratio depending on what direction you are trying to take it. Just be mindful that adding sulfates will lower the pH and it is definitely useful to understand...
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    Water profile question

    Info feels a bit thin but serviceable. Do you have a pH meter to confirm what you are doing with your water chemistry is working for you?
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