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Using fresh peels is a whole different deal than dried peels. Dry peels gives better results in my experience, and allow more conssistency also.

3oz for last 10min

The amount of spices that tastes close to the BM vary a lot from people to people, so there isn't an answers on that. If you feel you need more orange, add more until you like it. I'm currently using dry orange peels from Frontier, available in Amazon. Didn't noticed any significant difference...

pitching at 85F should not be an issue if the if temp dropped to 70F or under in next 24h. If that is the case, relax and wait.

at which temp did you mash?

If you want to mash at 152F, you will need to add water at higher temp than that so the grains and mash tun will absorb some of the heat and equalize at desired 152F. The mash tun needs to be well insulated so it retains 152F as long as possible for the time of the mash. Calculation for my...

Make a test with the new cooler, some hot water at 170F, leave it for 1h and check before and after. If it drops just 2 to 3F, make all the building and such, otherwise, return it get another one. my 2c.

Hey, sorry, just now realized #10&11 had the "dumped" label in google docs. That is corrected now.

Dumped #9. Corrected "clone" to "commercial". #11 is now the closest for me.

My 9th attempt of a BM clone was a disaster. Used WY1010-American Wheat yeast and that may be the culprit, lots of clove taste, had to dump the whole batch (#9). Anyways, posting here the results of #10 and #11, here were the changes: #10 Mashed for 75min, not planned Used 6.5lb of wheat and...

just sayig you could leave one monitoring the temp continuously. I'm assuming you didn't leave your thermometer inside the fermenter. Some of these meat thermometers are wireless, you have one small box connected to the probe (transmitter) and another you take with you, so you can monitor the...

On the temp drop, I think it has to do with the poor quality of the cooler insulation. I don't do any pre-warming and my cooler drops only 2F in 1h. What ambient temp are you mashing in? This will also affect the temp drop. Regarding the fermentation temp, temp will increase few degrees with an...

When I open the main valve on top of tank, high pressure gauge showed 800psi and lower pressure gauge showed end of scale (higher than 60psi), even though the adjusted pressure on the regulator was 30psi. No mather what I did to the pressure adjustment, lower pressure gauge would always be at...

I had my CO2 tank and regulator in the fridge with my kegs, not connected though, the main valve was off and when I openned it, the lower pressure gauge which supposed to be somewhere in the 30psi (I was previsouly carbonating a kep) jumped to end of scale and safety valve openned. I quickly...

calculation is ppg=46.214*(DBCG/100-MC/100-0.002). If the spec data I found is correct as DBCG=80.5 and MC%=3, calculated ppg=36, which match what folks are reporting.

It is possible that you need to adjust the ppg from the wheat malt that you use to compute your OG. This will directly affect the efficiency calculation. Here's a comparison of my brews, without wheat and with wheat malt in the grain bill. The fisrt chart shows that expected and real...

check this link, it includes my suggestions of basic equipment and process. http://beertech.blogspot.com/p/how-to-brew.html

your avatar, are you floating on the dead sea?:drunk: 13 plato=1.053

I made one for a friend. But it didn't have the taps. It had a different lighter socket and plug so he could light his cigarrets from the cooler:rockin:

No issues with foam. The solar panel is below. I hang it as to point to where the sun is coming from :-)