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Not at all. It was very clean. Just a touch of ale fruitiness but ever so slight. Pitched it at 63*F and it was very slow to start. Took me almost a week to raise the temp slowly to 68*F. It wasn’t really active until day 2 or 3 (64*F, 65*F). It sat a second week at 68*F before it was...

WLP515 is delicious. I bought some to try my hand at cloning Palm, which is a really clean Belgian Pale Ale. It came out so great, I just brewed another batch yesterday and I’m getting a tripel going today with the same yeast. i had just about written off ever brewing ales again (I much prefer...

agree on the harmony remote being the best universal i've used. it will complicate your life when it comes to setting it up, but will simplify your use after its configured.

3rd picture down... That might be a problem there. Looks like the holes are big enough that they might let some water/wort through. :p Bar keepers friend will get rid of the rust and beer will take care of everything else. :cask:

Do you sparge? I could never get a pre/post boil set of readings to match calculations, so I gave up on those pre-boil readings. I just calculate back from the post-boil readings to get my mash effeciency. It’s damn near impossible for me to get a thorough mix pre-boil after the sparge. I...

http://beersmith.com/blog/2018/01/17/pressure-fermentation-with-chris-white-john-blichmann-beersmith-podcast-163/ found it!

I remember a tale of testing fermenting under pressure at the Homebrew scale. I believe it was an effort by John Blichman and Chris White? The take away was lower esters and phenols (lab tested) were produced as the pressure increased. No negative effects south of 2 bars (30psi). I read a...

I made it back. Here is that graph: Not exactly two years worth, but from June 2018 through October 2019. I separated 2018 from 2019 into two separate series because I changed my recirculation flow rate from one year to the next; 2018 = 0.5 gallon/min 2019 = 1.75 gallon/min The sparge rate...

It’s cheaper and faster to take the hit on effeciency rather than consuming more water and energy to boil longer. Water is cheap, and electricity may be way cheaper than propane, but grain is cheap too. I grew tired of trying to nail my brewhouse effeciency for predicting grain bills and...

Burying the sparge inlet below the grain bed is not ideal. That aside, as long as you maintain some water above the grain bed, and your input to the lauter tun is delicate enough to not disturb the grain bed, then the velocity of the sparge supply in its tubing is irrelevant. The sparge supply...

The flow rate on the sparge should remain the same to achieve the same effeciency. If you sparge twice as much water in the same amount of time, you doubled your flow rate, lowering your effeciency.

https://www.homebrewing.org/White-Labs-515-Antwerp-Ale-Yeast_p_1322.html I made a Palm clone with this yeast. Should be ready to keg this week.

I experienced the same sort of thing. I bought precision hydrometers to rule our human error on the reading. I cooled the samples to the hydrometer calibration temp to eliminate the compensation error. I lined out my kettle measurement to ensure accurate volume readings. I measure...

Or a 15 gallon and not worry about the spray bottle. I use a 12 and have to creep up on the boil.

Here’s the super simplified set of steps: Mill the grains. Mash the grains for 1 hour at 150*F. Drain into a boil kettle. Boil for 1 hour with hops (this is the step where you kill all the nasty stuff that will ruin your beer). *After boiling is complete, you start worrying about making...

The insulated mash tuns from SsBrewtech have a conical bottom with bottom drain. You can’t fire them but this post is in the electric brewing forum.

^ yep. ^ watch your mash effeciency change as you change that number while leaving your brew house effeciency constant. after you get your process volumes dialed, adjust your BH effeciency to get your mash effeciency where you want it (lined up with reality).

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