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as others said it really depends on expectations. first pick a forgiving style, like an IPA for example second focus on fermentation. to make this easier, stick to extract (with steeping grains) until you get that figured out. make sure you don't have chlorine/chloramine in the water (forget...

I purge the first runnings from the donor keg, before hooking it up the 2nd keg. Recently, I built a jumper with dump valve, but using disconnects and fittings worked nearly as good. an overall better version would be to use floating dip tubes. some people might advise you on just cutting the...

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Perhaps not the best long term solution, but in the winter you can go the other way too: If it is colder (for most of the day) outside than you need it, put a heater on your fermenter and insulate it. Controller certainly helps, and you need to make sure that the heater/insulation combination...

yeah, you cannot redo the same size forever. at some point, you will have too many existing cells and they will metabolize the available nutrients too fast. before I got a bigger flask, I have run the second generation in multiple 2l starters in parallel. if you cannot do that, you could split...

Has anyone tried cold steeping the roasted portion of the grain bill? If so, is 3x of the weight reasonable at room temperature over night?

the only time when one could argue against that is if you compared something like a corny to a 4" shallow pan, where the ratio between volume and surface are vastly different.

whatever the reason is, the yeast did not look up and say: "oh, there's less room, so let's make sure we produce a little bit less Kräusen this time"

It's 4.8%vol and finishes fairly dry. 14P feels a bit high. Well, I guess I need to buy a few more... What type of mash are you suggesting; I'm not set up for decotions.

good point. I have never done that before, but this might be the one where I should try.

that sounds like a good one ;-) perhaps not a clone of the B:dark, but one I will try thanks for sharing!

thanks, but I was looking for a dark lager clone - kind of the Schwarzbier version of the original Budweiser. The hops should be Saaz, something like Vienna/Munich as the backbone plus a little bit of Cara and something roasted to get the colour significantly down, but without too much of the...

Just sitting and enjoying the evening sun and having a beer right now. I'm always big on keeping good reference samples around, so when a friend gave me that one, I wasn't sure if that's not something more like a novelty; one sip and I will never have another one again, like so often before...

appreciate your feedback, but please really think about below and previous actual statement as well that this was not specifically to the OP. On another note, I did think of the topic for a minute or two why this isn't a big deal and remembered the old topic of yeast coating. but since nobody...

I got a similar one with the stopper https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KP4D0K2/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 just for less (amazon seems to get pricey). it's kind of okay; Chinese welding just like the link from the OP. does fit through the stopper, but not a keg port (without a little bit of...

lagering works at higher temperatures as well, but it takes way longer. and that is where you get into a stabiltiy issue; i.e. you either have "green" or "stale" beer so why bother. regarding your outside temperatures, they are not that bad. frequent temperature variations are not helping with...

Recently, I switched to a good labgrade heated stirrer; no boil over (no antifoam needed either), way less stress on the glass since bottom is not much hotter than rest of flask.

this is the only HOME-brew book I've ever read and while it has more than someone with absolutely no previous practical nor theoretical knowledge will be able to make use of, I found it well balanced for those who like to get seriously started. IMO, it's far from an all encompassing encyclopedia...

X2 I always have one ale and one lager strain of dry yeast in my fridge - just in case I get spooked in the middle of the night LOL. Might be a little bit too late by now. Regarding off-flavours, pitching warm the entire starter medium, starting fermentation for a bit and then cooling is a...

what is the pressure rating on this one? I haven't convinced myself to get a conical yet (this one in 14gal is actual one I'd considered). right now I'm still using cornies, which always creates some other minor inconveniences. however, if it they clog, which they always do to some degree, I...