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Just curious. You have had krausen hang around that long? I've never seen that. It has always dropped after few days to week or so. Long before I'm ready to bottle.

Hey, nice work! I've been wanting to do that.

I brewed an APA of my own design. Had been having trouble with my BH Efficiency in the last couple brews and was able to fix it and then some. Had been at 83-84%, but was dropping down to mid to high 70's. First time building a water profile and maintaining PH, and stirred mash every 15 minutes...

That's interesting. Thanks for the link. I have my hops all ready to go. I'd be messing with the desired recipe bringing something like this into it I think. Though, I'm not sure. It's an interesting concept though.

I like using exact amount of sparge water BS tells me to use. Plus taking into account the loss. Program hits it everytime. I just sparge until dry. End up with right volume

Good to know, thank you. I'll try to prepare before I try jumping in. I want to be able to ship out right away.

I want to trade with someone but I think I have a ways to go to hit 100 posts and I'm not even sure I've been on here for 3 months yet. It's close. I'll try to spend some time daily commenting as much as I can on various threads! Lol. Reno has a few great breweries. Revision, Lead Dog, Great...

Any reason to not use chips instead of cubes? I read somewhere it's quicker but harsher? Any knowledge on that? Thank you.

I hadn't heard of boiling it. I was thinking of soaking in bourbon or vodka. Your way seems nice and easy. Thank you.

I’m making a pretty standard Pale Ale and would like to have a mild oak flavor in it. Just a bit. Never used oak chips or cubes etc. thoughts on how much to use in fermenter? When to add? I definitely don’t want it to overpower. What methods would you suggest? Thanks for the help.

A couple brew days ago, I had my first stuck mash. I ended up pumping back into the mashtun valve. Had to go forward, reverse, forward, reverse a couple times to get it unstuck. If you don't have a pump, I'd imagine it would work manually?

I find when I stick my head in my fermentation chamber, I get a smell similar to what you are saying. CO2 most likely. It kind of makes you cough. Sorta like taking a whif of vinegar. Not the smell, but the cough effect. I had not experienced that prior to getting the freezer for a ferm chamber...

How does the water taste? Do you get any of these flavors when tasting just the water ran through the filter prior to brewing with it?

Missing my Preboil gravity with my HERMS setup was mostly all due to me not stirring the mash. I stir several times now to ensure nice even temps throughout. I'm assuming you are also running your sparge water through the HERMS coil to clear out that trapped wort? If not, you'll want to do that...

Part of what makes this hobby so wonderful is the choices we can all make to do things as we want to do them. I’ve never “feared” plastic in any way. I like ss for many reasons including longevity. Only need 1 instead of replacing plastic over years of use. And let’s be honest, I think most of...

While this may be true, I think ALL of us have "upgraded" at multiple points of our brewing career. Let's face it, this is an AWESOME hobby. Why did we upgrade form a plastic bucket? Why do we upgrade from a glass carboy to a ss fermenter? Why do we bottle in glass and not plastic? Some use...

One of the reasons I built a smaller, separate 3-4 gallon dedicated HERMS was for quick temp changes. I recirc and maintain mash through it, and I raise temp quickly for mash out or step mash through it and I raise it again and run my sparge water through it. I feel like it gives me much more...

I really appreciate everyone's feedback. Just to clarify, I do use the typical 3/8 plastic wand. Have for years. I like the idea of SS and am still interested in going that route if anyone out there owns a supposed "proper size" one. I appreciate the link provided to a possible candidate. Hoping...

Dangit, missed that. Crazy they even make this thing. Or is it just me? I don't see the application with that size. Any luck ever finding a correct size one?

This is not a bad idea! Just can't believe that someone out there doesn't offer a stainless version of the plastic one we all have.