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I would leave them be. Yeast get thirsty too!

I snagged a set of reduction gears from Ebay for $39.00 (new shelf stock item). Did not have time to completely research them - but for that price hopefully they work! I have a 56C frame 1 hp motor with a 5/8" keyed output shaft. The gears are Dodge Reliance MR94743 D ZY 56/150-10 Tigear...

The analogy is based on bleach will kill anything relevant in the beer world. And it can follow the bacteria into any scratch they can get into - the key is immersing the bucket in the bleach solution and not just splashing some around... That is the key mistake made in our hobby in my opinion.

Properly concentrated bleach will allow reusing a bucket for mom sours. If it can sanitize a hospital operating room we are good to go for a plastic bucket.

I usually just do an 18-24 month primary. The trub pile is yummy food for the bugz. Either way it doesn't hurt the beer like a non sour. I think commercial folks only primary in steel and rack to barrels out of convenience and to ensure the largest possible yield per barrel as $$$ matter to...

Late addition to the questions: I understand why you want Sacc for the initial solera fermentation - you want to ensure that random wild stuff doesn't take over the wort. So a few months in your Brett and Bugz will develop and begin eating whatever the Sacc didn't eat or the byproducts of...

I have the 3rd 25 gallon kettle - just didn't want to buy that much peanut oil and the stand wasn't designed to hold the much smaller Bayou Classic pot - had to improvise. I can tell you that the BG-14 burners put off so much heat that the oven tray warped about a quarter of an inch where the...

It fries turkeys! It makes beer! It's.................... My Rig!

48 gallons. 16 gallons of an Oude Tart clone and the remainder my "House Lager" recipe. Good stuff! 50 more on deck for 2 weeks from now!

Below is a snapshot of the Den Hartog catalog - the only reliable source about these tanks. Reason for my statement - half the websites say the tanks are MDPE and the other half HDPE. The blow molded ones (35 and 60 gallon models with legs) are HDPE. The rest of their inductor tanks (about a...

Be careful selecting the conical - most of the ones on the market are MDPE (Medium Density Polyethylene). They will allow too much oxygen in and you'll end up with acetic acid. They work great for a beer that's in them for a few weeks but not a Solera or even a single batch sour. The Den...

Closing in on a year - almost time to remove 15 gallons and add 15 fresh gallons. I'm going to stick with about 30-40% malted wheat but mostly pale 2-row for the base this time. I will post pictures of the yeast trap compaction (it compacted a bit more over the last year), also. I have no...

Monster Mill MM3-2.0 for the win! 3 two inch rollers of grain crushing fun! Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

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that's why I love Kindle books.. of course except when you lose the damn kindle.... LOL PS Folks - drink more beer.

You can leave it in the bucket on it's trub (bacteria LOVE to eat it) - you do need to flush the headspace with CO2 to minimize the oxygen and make sure the airlock doesn't go dry. The best thing to do is move it to a glass carboy - the plastic buckets do let in some oxygen by diffusion over...

I added a smack pack of Roeselare to a Cuvee Van de Keizer clone (recipe courtesy of CSI). That is a 12% beer. It is doing just fine - the pics are recently in the Pellicle Pictures thread. Let your Infected Westy sit for a year or 2 - it may come out amazing!

First off I oak in glass with cubes. You can add the oak near the end of the secondary just before bottling/kegging or add less oak for the entire duration of the secondary.

This is going to be a yummy Grand Cru Cuvee Van de Keizer clone that I decided to add a packet of Roeselare to. The first words out of SWMBOs mouth "Ewwwww. Are you really going to drink that?".... <sigh>

I just caught this. Right on! I am glad to see you changed your mind since March of this year - I am looking forward to the results. My next batch I intend to oak in both new medium toast and used bourbon barrels. Should be an excellent product.