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Second for the Blichmann.* One fancy fermentor = one fancy fermentor. If you brew at any appreciable rate you will probably have more than one thing going at a time. I'd get a chest freezer fermentor and have space for 3 or 4 primaries. *if I was going to spend the money, and if I had space for...

Well here is the first update: Fail on the temp conversion/memory. It has been at 70f from day one and I guess I will leave it there. As you might expect it has been pretty vigorous what I didnt expect is my whole brew room smells like bananas. So that is exciting.

Sorry, I am thinking belgian abbey II wyeast 1762. Not familiar with Conan Yeast.

Thanks PianoMan! I've got another IPA with a honey malt + light refreshing thing happening. I am going to aim for something a little darker and dryer. It is for a pirate party. Great leaping off point though so thanks! Grain: 9# pils 3# munich 0.5# Crystal 40 0.25# Carafoam Hops: 4 hops mix...

Brewed it yesterday. Went well, although ended a little low OG=1.085. I will blame my candi sugar and being ~.025-.5 gallons over on volume. Serious fermentation now 9 hours in.

Yup. That was the issue. It is working excellently now. Thanks all.

It says STC1000 on it. I've mashed the buttons in every possible combination.... But it sounds like I have my answer - no it is not a thing for these units. I will play around with it some more and see what I can come up with. thanks

seems cool

Moved my STC from a keggorator to a ferm chamber and it will not let me set the temp over 10c (50F)! Is this normal? Is there a work around? thanks!

If all goes as planned brew day will be tomorrow. Few small mods. I made the Candi sugar myself - it is amber. Got the ferm chamber going now too so I will do 2 days at 60 and then the rest at 70. 1.5L starter is stirring away will cold crash it and decant before pitching. 16# pils 1# Candi...

That would be the easy way out - and thats not why I homebrew! JK but seriously that does look like a good option although I usually get my supplies at the LHBS not online. I would really like to know what is all in there as well.

Hi All, Long story short -> pirate themed party, need beer with 7 "C" ingredients. I am thinking IPA, need 4 or 5 hops that start with the letter C and will mesh well together. The other Cs will come from the malts (carapils and one or two cyrstals) Here is a list of C hops I can think of...

That looks great. One could make an awesome electric HLT maybe? The other... yeah jet pack sounds good.

It will be fine. Kegged and cold beer can be stored for months and it is just a-okay.

Okay based on your recommendations I have revised the recipe to be the following, dropping both the black patent and the 120L. Keeping the pils but reducing bc of candi. Thanks for the input! OG 1.09 FG 1.02 Size 5.25 Gallons ABV 9% IBU 30 SRM 32 Wyeast: Belgian Abbey II 16# pils 1# Candi...

RonPopeil, cool break down, thanks! I might have to check out the 1214. I've used the Abbey II many times and quite like it. Don't think I've used special B before. This grain bill is already quite complex, should I drop something or just add 1/4 or a 1/2 pound? I hate to be that guy at the...

Would you just go with 2-row? Most belgians stouts that I looked up had pils as a base but I am thinking thatm considering the rest of the grain bill, it might not have a huge impact either way? What is your take? I was going to just leave it in my south facing kitchen for July which should get...

Planning a Belgian Imperial Stout. I recently had a very awesome, almost cherry flavoured stout at a homebrew meeting and want to do something similar. The plan is to put this in a "wine barrel": 2 oz of oak chips soaked in a homemade blackberry wine. I'd probably just dump the ~1/2 liter of...

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Wanted to renew this long dead thread to say that this beer is awesome. I am making it for the 5th time tomorrow (10 gallon). Also wanted to ask if it would be an unspeakable horror to go 50:50 wheat pils?