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I'm a big fan of FO honey additions, my in laws are in the bee business. This is how I take sparging to the next level.

That is sweet! Please tell me you have made an Elevator dopple bock!

I think S189 is a good dry alternative but not an exact replacement, leans to the malty side. Works well at 60°F and let it build pressure natively to 25 psi. Solid performer, ready to keg in 5-6 days with above conditions. Clears with just clarity ferm at pitch in ~14 days. Extremely luscious...

This is a great approach to accomplish what you want to do. I keep it cold in the cooler and add it first and pour on top. Cheers

I always stick with the original grain bill and switch up yeast and hops. Currently it's 50/50 Galena and Liberty with Nottingham, next one will be an equal split of Cluster and Amarillo with yeast du jour.

I'm drinking some right now, such a great light brew. I boil 1½ qts mash water, kill the heat and throw in the rice right before dough in, helps the efficiency a bit.

I would use the brush ring on your TH40 and one of your high pH synthetic carpet presprays. Not sure which line of chems you are using in the UK, so can't give a specific product. Just 2 liters of product mixed at a time, put it down with a flat mop, give it 10 mins dwell and rinse with the...

Brew your favorite beer over and over until you absolutely nail it. After that it's easy.

Freezing the lid full of starsan/sani clean is a truly genius idea! Kudos

I will give that exact pump 5 stars. I use those pumps under vacuum in our machines at work. We have beat the brakes off of them for years and they still keep ticking. Two thumbs up for sure

You are making me miss the Copelands restaurants we had around Charlotte at one time, that looks fantastic!

M54 is a very clean yeast under pressure and clears quickly. K97 behaves and tastes much differently than M54 for me too. K97 has big doughy kräusen like Verdant and M54 has a very clean white lager type kräusen. I can't say definitively if M54 is a lager, hybrid or ale strain, but it produces a...

I fill with with the lid off from a beverage ball lock attached to the supply line under the sink, add sani clean and SMB and put on the lid and tilt the keg to eliminate all air through the gas post. The SMB in the sani clean is dosed to remove 10 ppm oxygen in the sani clean solution.

I brew 10-15 gals biweekly. We have the family here every Sunday and it's easy to blast through 3-5 gals on any Sunday. I'm pretty darn sure my son in law has a hollow leg. I don't mind at all, I love turning around beers like it's a job.

Short term yeast storage in soda pet bottles is OKish. Pet bottles are not impervious to oxygen and they lose their ability to block oxygen with time. Major brands seem to be better than local brands or clear store brand bottles in my experience. Kegland oxebar bottles are currently the king of...

I think everyone tastes things different. I know 100% that for me low oxygen on the hot and cold side makes my Helles ethereal. Do some beers benefit from oxygen on the hot or cold side, I truly think so and they wouldn't be the same without oxidation.

I use 1 gram sodium metabisulfite powder in 20 liters of sanitizer and there is only a tiny amount of sanitizer left in the keg after purging, I definitely can't taste it. The light lagers I regularly brew really benefit from these extra steps, it's worth the extra 15 minutes of effort for me...

Here's the way I look at working towards achieving low oxygen in freshly cleaned kegs. An unmodified keg is known to trap up to 3 oz of air in the lid area, in addition to the dissolved oxygen in the sanitizer (8 ppm minimum). How much oxygen comes out of the sanitizer into the co2 headspace...

It sounds like you have ticked all the boxes and may not even need a d rest. You can do a forced test to determine if it is necessary, this link has some good info about it. https://escarpmentlabs.com/blogs/resources/the-forced-diacetyl-test

If you encounter co2 breakout enough that it stops your xfer (it can happen under perfect conditions), pinch the gas to gas line and pull the prv on the receiving keg to bump start the xfer. It will save you from uncoupling the gas jumper and introducing oxygen. Prost!