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I tasted the starter again after 19 hours on stir plate and it taste fine with a hint of peaches like Conan is known for producing. No plastic or latex taste but still has that smell. I'm going to proceed with this starter and pitch as planned when I brew tomorrow. Now is probably a good time to...

Should I dump this starter and start over? Read on for the back story. I've got a 1.8L 1st gen Yeast Bay VT Ale yeast starter in a 2L flask that's 15 hours on the stir plate. My previous starter from my 1st gen harvest of this same yeast had a very strong, but, pleasant fresh baked bread smell...

Heady Topper clone, hmm, hmm, good

I've done 5G, 1G and 2.5G. I found 2.5G to be the right size for me (yields roughly a case of bottled beer). It's basically the same amount of time on brew day (not to be confused with "work") regardless of which batch size you choose. 1G might yield 8-10 12 oz bottles which I find good for...

I do a 2.5G batch bourbon barrel porter where I soak 1oz med toast oak cubes in 8oz of Maker's Mark for 2 days and then pitch the entire contents into my secondary for a week prior to bottling. It does need a good 4-6 months to mellow out in the bottle but it's great once it's finished. I just...

Here's my protocol for my bottles. It might seem like overkill but it cost me no additional time all things considered. I keep a spray bottle of Star San under my kitchen sink so when I decant a bottle of homebrew I immediately rinse the bottle with warm tap water to remove sediment and...

I'm not sure the weight of your bottles plus the water will allow stacking totes. A gallon of water weighs roughly 7#. My gray Rubbermaid tote is 18 gallons and I fill with about 10 gallons of water for my 3G fermentor.

I've tried that. It's not that the trub is over the spigot but that it's near the spigot so as beer flows through it it also draws some trub with it. Honestly, you'll need to rack into something to mix your priming sugar unless you plan to stir the trub up to mix the priming sugar. I choose to...

I have to use an autosiphon following primary fermentation due to the yeast/trub layer ending very close to the spigot to rack into a second brewdemon to mix the priming sugar. I then connect my bottle filler and tube to the spigot on the second brewdemon to fill my bottles..

I do this for my fermentation temp controller. I put my 3G fermenter in the water bath in an 18G Rubbermaid tub and use a small pond pump to recirc the water and hang the aquarium heater over the side. All controlled by an ohmbrewautomations.com controller.

Thanks for the feedback. I'm scheduled to drop in first round of dry hop on Friday at which point I'll take another gravity reading. I'm crossing my fingers there won't be much change in gravity being an indication that no "wild things" started working on the beer.

Water chem and especially pH will play a bigger role with All Grain brewing. I will say I noticed a big improvement in the taste of my beer when I started paying attention to water profile. No more astringent mouthfeel. There are so many variables you can play with in this hobby to get...

Brewdemon recommended One Step but any oxygen based one will work even Oxyclean. These cleaners I understand require a min of 2 min contact time to do their job. I too am bummed not being able to use Star San any more. I've got a 5 gallon bucket I keep with Star San mixed up for quick and easy...

I use them and love them for small batch brewing. Be aware that you don't want to use acid based sanitizers with these. I've had two fermenters crack at the through hole for the spigot and 2 spigots split/shear over the past year. Brewdemon replaced both ferms for me. My latest mishap just...

I had a major "aw $h1t" today with my Heady Topper clone that was 9 days into primary. Some of my swamp cooler water leaked into my primary through the bottling spigot! My SG yesterday for 10.5 qts of beer prior to the mishap was 1.011. After the mishap it's now 1.010. Since that extra point...

I may have figured out the behavior with Brewersfriend Recipe Editor high OG prediction. I posted my findings in a Brewersfriend forum thread here: http://www.brewersfriend.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1820&p=11511#p11511 Basically the tool's current behavior is the Batch Target type selection...

I thought I'd post what I ended up doing this past weekend. After harvesting half of the starter volume I went ahead and moved my flask into the refrigerator the night before I needed it to see how much the Conan would clear. It actually cleared very well, but, to ensure I didn't dump healthy...

To clarify my last post, during my last AG brew session I hit all the predicted numbers from brewersfriend recipe editor for pre-boil volume, gravity and post boil volume. The predicted post-boil OG was approx. 20 points higher than predicted pre-boil OG and I wasn't adding a lot of late...

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I'm experiencing the same issue with brewersfriend recipe editor when Batch Target is set to "fermenter" and Brew Method set to BIAB, it predicts about 20 points high on OG. If I change Brew Target to "kettle" predicted OG is closer to actual. I've posted in brewersfriend forums inquiring on...