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Hey, it's all 4 years old. If it were me, I'd throw it all out and start over. However, you could do a batch or two just to hone your process and get reacquainted with everything. Never mind that the beer may not turn out, the hops are cheesy and the yeast may no longer be active. You could work...

I have been saving off a portion of each starter for a couple of years now and one of the many things I wonder about is how old is too old or how many generations is too many. Recently, I pulled a jar of yeast I haven't used in over 3 months and noticed a very thin dark layer on top of the yeast...

I thought I would just toss in my 2 cents here as I have dealt with this issue before. I make starters from liquid yeast and pour off 500ml to start the next batch. I usually washed the containers with PBW, rinsed and used StarSan to sanitize before storing off some of the starter. Every once in...

I tried that once. I used what looked like a chrome ball bearing, about 1.5" in diameter and a good bit of weight. After 3 days of holding down the hop bag, I pulled it out and the chrome shine was gone, leaving a dark grey color. The beer was the same color! Smelled and tasted awful, I wouldn't...

Have you looked into Tilt Pi for Raspberry? It logs the Tilt readings and uses your local WiFi to post the values to Google Sheets.

I made a glycol chiller from a cooler and and AC, filled with 2 gallons of glycol and 4 gallons of water. I run the glycol through a CFC using a submersible pump to circulate the glycol in the cooler and another pump to circulate through the CFC. I use it only for chilling wort and by itself it...

I am interested in how your club offers bulk base malts. My only LHBS is closing and this setup could be handled by the local club. Please advise. Thanks.

Update to my original post on the boil-off rate for the 20 gallon kettle: I brewed an 11 gallon batch the other day with a 60 minute boil. The boil power parameter setting was 63% and I left the lid on about 50% covered. It was not a vigorous boil but it was a slow, gentle, rolling kind of boil...

I have the 20 gallon system and yesterday I checked the boil off rate with 18 gallons of water, a 30 minute boil at 75% heater power. I made all measurements using the markers on the inside of the kettle at ambient temperature which was about 63 degrees. After a 30 minute boil and an overnight...

Fantastic! I have a Brew Boss Hops Feeder which looks like the same here so I am assuming the cup sizes are the same. Where did you get the clear plastic tubes that fit so neatly inside and can I get some, too?

Yes, thanks. I have some Iodophor but haven't used it in awhile. I also have Sani-Clean which contains Iodophor, I think. BTW, The Star San foam bubbles are formed from the dissolved gases in the Star-San solution, not the surrounding air.

I was not using the COFI tube to recirculate the mash, I used a LocLine tube for recirculating. I believed that the COFI tube was spraying wort through the air over the grain bed for that portion that was above the liquid level. I had some bad off-flavors in a few batches and I believed it was...

Not really. I just don't like it overflowing when I'm filling a keg or a bottle. But hey, at least the headspace is filled with foam and not O2.

Has anyone used this? Advertised to be like Star-San only NO FOAM! Well, I've tried it and it is indeed less foamy but the smell....it is like an intense plastic smell. I have not used this on any of my brewing equipment for fear of this smell being imparted into my beer. I would be interested...

Thanks for the info, I almost always double crush my grain on my own mill with about a .035" gap. I use a Locline tube for recirculating which is about 2 feet long with articulated sections with holes that can be bent into any shape. I usually bend it into a corkscrew shape making sure the...

At first, I was having some issues with "bad" beer I thought was Hot Side Aeration facilitate by the COFI basket central tube. I have a 20 gallon kettle and make some 10 gallon batches but a lot of 5 gallon batches which barely fills half the basket with grain and about half the kettle with...

I presume you mean to ask how to fix it. Remove the type 3 line: "3,Heating to Mash Out Temperature of 168 degrees,168,0,0,1,0,1,0"

I see where you removed the type 4 statement for the Mash Out duration but you left in the previous type 3 statement which raises the temperature set point to 168 degrees. Although the Brew-Boss Operations manual does not mention it, I think it is looking for the next type 4 statement which is...

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---------------- I noticed that you use step type 2 to set the Set Point which then continues with the next step. A step type 7 will do the same thing and may be the better choice when you look at the step. I think it's an unintentional consequence by the manufacturer that step type 2 also sets...