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this is great.

Totally possible. I would think that would be fairly likely unless you mixed it pretty well.

I would get a camp burner. They are cheap, work great, and the threat of a boilover in the kitchen is gone.

I am betting on yeast as well. kinda hard to see

Did you pitch the same rate of yeast into both batches? In your situation, there are 2 carboys with must of the same gravity, but of different volumes. If you were to pitch, as an example, one pouch of dry yeast into each one, they would definitely ferment at different speeds because the smaller...

I have bought one from best buy and one from Home Depot. I have been able to wait each time I needed a new one, so I was able to wait for something like a Labor day/Memorial day sale. all of the big stores like the above two normally have some pretty great deals. home depot link for reference...

If you aren't opposed to a chest freezer, I would definitely get one. then, it will lead you to kegging with is awesome. I would get at least a 7 cubic foot one and would skip the used ones. I know people have great luck with them, but my 2 used ones have died on me. I have paid about $250 for...

when I cold crash, I set my chest freezer to like 10 C which is 50 F for about a day. it definitely helps to compact hops/yeast. I would say go for it, I think it will at least help the process start.

you might, but you are also using a different hop, so it will be different anyway

You may het some additional flavor/aroma as AAs are lower and you will need to use more hops. I am not sure if oils (which are largely responsible for flavor/aroma) vary directly with AAs, but I do not think they do. Many recipes I have seen and the recipes I write based bittering charges off of...

+5.5 2178 Pale = 244 going to try and remember to enter here every time I brew this year...

does your kettle have a ball valve? if not, I would definitely recommend getting that. I am not a fan of moving 5 gallons of anything around.

Has anyone seen this article yet? https://beerandbrewing.com/a-surprise-in-the-yeast/ Someone shared it on my facebook feed and it seems like a really neat yeast. They found it at a university in Philadelphia and it seems like it could be a really fun yeast to use. It looks like it is a good...

There will definitely be a change of some kind. It would not be that hard to remedy. Additionally, a longer boil helps to drive off DMS, but that is not what we are really talking about. The 15 minute boil will definitely work, it will just result in increased costs. As an example, I did a short...

that seems correct. you will be using a lot of simcoe though. a positive of boiling for an hour, which would be typical for a 5 gallon batch, would increase your hop utilization and you wouldn't need to use so many hops. you can save a few bucks by doing that.

I have heard of a product called cholaca(?) that is pure liquid cacao that is safe to add directly to the secondary. they advertise it on The Experimental Brewing Podcast all the time.

I know they do, but OP didn't mention it. seemed a stretch to assume

those don't look like any hops I have seen. the flowering part is similar, but the leave and bine don't look like hops to me. hops have small hook type things on their "vines" that grab onto things. those look too smooth.

I would assume the system isn't BIAB, but a re-circulating mash with some other sort of sparge step. sparging is just rinsing grains. mashing out is heating the grains to a point where all enzymes denature and conversion is halted. both are different steps and do not take the place of each other.

i don't think it is too far out of the realm of possibility. I believe a lot of Baltic porters are fermented with a lager yeast. I would assume yours would come out similar to that but smaller.