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Yeah, I use printer paper all the time. Well, I don't really bottle all that often anymore, but when I did I used printer paper. We've got a color laser printer in the office at work that I can use for labels, no one minds, so that helps too. Not sure what would happen with an inkjet. It...

Bru'n Water asks for 3 water volumes. Mash, sparge and total batch (finished, in carboy volume). Pretty sure it is doing all of this for you.

I use milk. Print your labels on the paper of your choice, cut them out, put some milk on a small plate (just a little bit). I then place about half of the label just on top of the milk, an edge will curl up. Grab that edge and gently drag the rest of the label over the top of the milk to...

Probably a water chemistry/pH issue. I'd try a batch with RO and see if the problem goes away. However for what it's worth I've only ever gotten grassy flavors when dry hopping with Cascade or Centennial (solo). I just do not like the result of those hops used as a solo dry hop.

That glass on the left just looks like yeast. I could see being turned off by that beer.

Agreed. I don't get how worked up some people get about the appearance of a NEIPA. I care more about how a beer tastes than how it looks, some people certainly do not agree with that sentiment. I wonder what those folks think about a hefeweizen? Are those somehow okay?

Haha, fair enough. The photos were taken on my phone, it really doesn't like a dark foreground and a bright background. But you do get the general idea from the photos, bright on one side and dark on the other.

I'll play, the beer is very dependent upon the lighting. Here are a couple of pics of the same beer with natural light hitting it but taken from opposite sides. No photoshop on these photos.

I've got Intertap faucets with the ball lock connector attachments for them. I've also got a home made keg cleaner with a pump. I connect the ball locks that would normally go on the keg for cleaning to the Intertaps and run PBW through the lines with the pump. I just take the ball locks off...

Look at post #20.

I fill the keg with Starsan, purge, then push the Starsan to another clean keg. The receiving keg is now empty and full of CO2 at about ~4 psi. When I'm hooking everything up to the fermentor I'll attach the line to the receiving keg first, this releases the CO2 in the keg purging the line at...

Why not just use a balloon? It's cheap, it works.

Your heavy froth is called krausen. The only way to know for sure is to take multiple gravity readings over multiple days. Once the gravity is stable the beer is done fermenting. I've had batches where the krausen never fell, I've had batches were I barely had any krausen at all, gravity is...

I've got a red ale I like to brew that uses the following for malts; Pale Malt - 77.8% Munich Malt - 8.2% Crystal 40 - 7.3% Victory Malt - 3.7% Crystal 75 - 1.8% Midnight Wheat - 1.1% It ends up with a nice amber/red hue and a solid malt backbone. My recipe is what I would call a NW Red...

It takes me roughly 20 ~ 25 min to gravity feed my kegs as well. I do what you guys do except I keep my keg on my grain scale and fill it by weight, takes the "is it full yet?" guess work out of filling. The only thing that really sticks out to me in your process is the 10' of tubing. The...

Every pitch of yeast has the potential to ferment differently than the last. I just did an IPA with WLP090, 1.5L starter and the krausen only ever grew to about 1/4" above the beer. Every other batch I've done with WLP090 blew off vigorously. I was worried because I've never seen that...

I brew 6 gal (22.7L) batches when I'm doing a NEIPA, just to account for losses with all of the dry hopping. My standard batch size is 5.5 gal (20.8L), that ensures I'm getting a completely full keg. I don't mind dumping what little extra is left over down the drain.

My fermentation fridge recently crapped out, after some investigation it turned out it was the relay that starts the compressor. A $20 part and a few minutes of work to swap it out. Telltale sign was everything appeared to be running, no cold air was blowing out of the fan and the compressor...

The wort will appear darker in the carboy then it will in a glass, just volume. You should also see the color change as the trub falls out of the wort as it is sitting in the carboy. For some reason the wort appears lighter when the trub is still in suspension. Just give it time, wait till...

I use ball lock kegs, not sure if it is the same with pin locks or not, but I'd imagine it is. What you want is a swivel nut. The standard size on a threaded ball lock connector is a 1/4" FFL. They sell swivel nuts with various sized barbs all with the standard 1/4" FFL to screw on to the...