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Checking out their (Label Peelers) prices and highly impressed!!! Thanks for the info!!

I've never done it before, but trying to squeeze two brews into one saturday calls for some time savers ideas. No sparge also means I can use the HLT water as the strike water for second batch since water collection in my RO setup takes time. Probably do a no Mash Out on batch one also. I'll...

My false bottom mash tun holds 3.5 gallons of liquid (that's below the level of the false bottom). I could probably wait until I'm sucking air, and stop my runoff then begin the boil. While its coming to a boil, I could then compress the mash bed from above somehow and collect some more liquid...

Great. I will fiddle with the recipe. How does this alter your efficiency though and the OG? I do not have a BIAB setup by the way,

Well OK then! Brew on! Thanks for the supportive comments about dry. I am in FL and can't trust shipments of liquid yeast for the most part. TD

Not doing BIAB. eHerms 3v/2e. Just want to save time is all. edit- to reply I'm not sure how much time I will save, but hoping to gain 1 hr for each beer I want to brew. I usually fly sparge. The recirculation step and stirring the mash and all takes time and batch sparge you need to double...

Sick of buying yeast online and getting dry packs that are 20 months old. Best by 10/2020 on two packs of lallemand ESB from More Beer. Delivered May 10th. Granted I had some unexpected repairs on my brew rig but still. Read somewhere they print best by date two years from packaging date, if...

Also any tips on the design from regular sparge vs no sparge to compensate for lower efficiency? I have not brewed enough on my "new" setup to have an accurate % efficiency. Old setup with same mill was 78% Thinking bump efficiency to 60 or 65% for a No Sparge? TD

Using BeerSmith 2 ( I just grabbed trial of 3.1) not sure version matters at all. Have a previous pale ale recipe I made and I wanted to convert it to a NO SPARGE to save time and do back to back brews tomorrow. I can't seem to figure out how to do it. The mash profile part of Beer Smith I've...

Don’t think any of us is on the same scale as you, LOL! 50 lb orders and what not! I promised myself not to become overstocked on green beans anymore. Had and still have a bunch of “past crop”. A good way to store them for me is freezer in 1# parcels Mylar vac seal bag with oxy absorber. Has...

Thats a nice one! I FINALLY received the pictoral bean development postcard with close up bean photos from beginning through burnt phases.

@TallDan What's the postcard under the spoon in you picture?? Looks like Sweet Maria's postcard. Local Homebrew shop owner has a mill city roaster. I'm jealous just a bit. I have by no means mastered my bullet or even roasting for that matter. Hard for me to believe a nicer roaster is...

Yeah, the Double Bock I did a few years ago was the only time I tried it and my effiency was through the roof. Was 100% munich I believe. Amazing, and overshot my target OG 1.100 I think it was. I have a great ESB recipe I've been tweaking for a few years - before I took about 6 years break...

Have to check that out. Gear has arrived. Have some time off next week to do some brewing. Need to fix my DIY glycol fermentation controller first but should take too much time. Need a bullet proof recipe. I might cheat and try to use some ale yeast with a spunding valve, because too cheap...

thank you! That's a nice looking CIP ball. I had to fashion one out of component parts but the result is about the same. I don't think that one was available or I didn't see it when I purchased mine. I also have a tiny one That'll clear a 1.5 TC port. Maybe I might try that to rinse those...

What is you CIP process? I have a few different CIP balls. The large one I use through the lid/port 4" or 3" TC port (I forgot if it is 3 or 4") with an adapter. I haven't figured out if I should use a length of pipe to lower the ball into the conical or let it run right under the port or...

Interesting. I really have no other place on my property where I can plant hops. I would get a letter from the HOA if I tried to grow one in my open yard. I also don't want to have them take over my garden beds where most home owners plant ornamental plants by planting them in the ground. My...

Howdy I bought one several years ago and have been on a brewing haitus since 2014 really. Got to batches under my belt this year and wanted to ask about cleaning this sucker. Who else has one and can give me some tips? Especially for the three side ports and the upper shoulder area. TD

Not sure I posted this before or not. The post it note is formula of grams of mineral added per gallon of distilled water per SCCA (?) recommendations for coffee brewing water.

@TallDan My technivorm I hated. The stainless steel bar I think is chrome plated steel, not stainless and it corrodes with time. Also you probably know, you need to invert whole thing over a sink to discard the retained water in the reservoir. the extraction was all over the board because you...