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I have a bunch of 1 oz bags of Cryo-Hops leftover from the 2018 AHA event in Portland. Would someone suggest a good recipe for a simple 7% West Coast APA/IPA with some of these hops? With Cryo's a little goes a long way, plus my batch size is about 4 gallons and that makes them go further...

I am on my second generation with this yeast, and my apparent attenuation experience has been different from most of you. There is nothing special about my process, so I suspect the yeast blend may vary from vial to vial. I made a blonde that went from 1.047 to 1.006 (87%) and pitched half of...

Thanks for the tip.

I got an old mini fridge for free that I want to eventually convert to a kegerator, but in the short term I just want to be able to throw in a keg and CO2 tank and use a picnic tap. I had to remove the door panel because I could not stand my keg upright and still close the door with the panel...

I was surprised how fast it melted as well, but the beer came out warm (~80F), so it could not be sharing the keg with a block of ice. As for taste, I don't think the freeze affected anything at all. The problem is that it was undercarbed before and is still undercarbed now, and I think...

It thawed much faster than expected, and I wound up over-warming it and returning it to the fridge. It should be OK by tonight. Hope the new Inkbird arrives today!

It was at least somewhat carbed, though I guess it depends in part on just how long it took to freeze. No sloshing last time I tried. The keg is pretty close to full. Will put it in warm water now

I kegged a blonde ale about 10 days ago, carbed it for a few days, and then had to repurpose my chest freezer as a fermentation chamber for a newly brewed batch. Luckily, or so I thought, I'd just come into possession of an old mini-fridge. I put my keg and CO2 bottle inside, turned the temp...

Strangely enough, that was exactly what I did. Wish I could say I did it because of what White Labs said, but that would be less than honest.

Ahh,but I did not wait for equipment to fail on brew day. I bought two of the cheap version because I knew it was cheap. What I did not know was that I would lose the second one before the first one failed, and that for a time I would even forget I'd purchased a better quality replacement as...

@Nagorg, you say BeerSmith estimated an FG of 1.018. Did you find a profile of WLP075 or did you create one?

Very true. The $5 toy does one thing only.

Thanks. I did not connect the ground and it seems to be working just fine. Here's hoping the life-expectancy of these wires is greater than the cheapo old ones.

Very true, but the device in #13 is $5.00!

It turns out the Gov Reg device is precisely the wrong thing for spunding. It permits gas to flow up to a preset pressure level, making it the perfect tool for for a multi-keg serving set-up. It would let all gas escape from a spunding set-up. What is needed is a check-valve that only permits...

I have a DIY false bottom consisting of a 1/4" mesh cake cooling plate resting on 2" bolts for legs. It keeps the bag about 3/4" away from the element. Everything circulated just fine once I added the water and turned the pump back on. The additional water was RO water, so I tried adding some...

None of the above. eBIAB w/ continuous recirc courtesy of a Chugger pump and temp control by Auber. I think I lost a few fermentables down the drain, but my fermenter is dutifully bubbling away this AM regardless. I could have had a real disaster if the kettle ran completely dry. With no...

So, I've been trying to figure out how just how "big" a five gallon batch I can get from a six gallon kettle. I do continuous recirculation in an eBIAB set-up together with a pour-over sparge and figure I can even do a partial boil and add more water at the end. With these thoughts in mind it...

What are the consequences of pitching too much yeast this way? I read about many people pitching directly onto the yeast cake of the previous brew, which would imply even more yeast. Is this just as bad? Worse?

It works! Thank you. Aegir says to spend more time brewing and less time looking at new brew toys!