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    pH Meter Calibration

    I took it apart and everything is spotless inside. I was able to complete a custom calibration but when I went from 7 to 4 and saved that, then went back to the 7 it was reading in the 5's. When not in anything, just on and hanging out in the air it started around 4 and dropped quickly...
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    pH Meter Calibration

    Got my hach pocket pro+ in november and it's failing to calibrate now as well. It just won't ever stabilize on a reading. I've got an email in to hach, we'll see what they say. Used it every 1-2 weeks since november, rinsed and stored with distilled water. Calibrated every usage with the...
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    RO Systems

    http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/brs-4-stage-ro-only-system-75gpd-2.html Got that one a few weeks ago. I bought a float valve as well and plumbed it into an empty bulk LME container. I just turn the valve on the night before and I end up with 15 gallons of ro in the morning. Takes my tap water...
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    5.2 Mash Stabilizer - alternate uses

    The thing is, with science at least, things either work or they don't work. There's no "I feel this works" or "it works for me" it either does or it doesn't. 5.2 doesn't. Anyone with a ph meter can test that, and find the same result.
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    Copyright IPA?

    I read his book recently and in it he says when he was starting up and looking for his niche beer he decided against a pale ale as not to compete with sierra nevada. So he went with IPA, which is the beer that sold most and made most of his money (I'm paraphrasing here) . From the book I get the...
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    To blindly go where no man has gone before. Using Bru'n Water

    Once I started using distilled water and used BNW to build up a water profile my beers became noticeably better. Once i got my meter though I noticed BNW estimating the ph low on some beers. Probably because the grain I was using wasn't the same as what BNW had planned on. Dark beers with...
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    Fermentation Chamber Temperature VS Wort

    Use a hair dryer. Run it for a while to make sure the outside or tip doesn't get hot and then just wire it in place of the heater. Circulation and heat and it won't shut off at some weird temp. Saisons in the winter ftw, it's always saison season. Then again I'm in houston and it was 80...
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    Finished beer pH

    I just got my Hach pocket pro+ and thought I'd so some tests on a stout I made with chocolate and coffee. There's cocoa powder and coffee at flame out. cocoa nibs and cold brew coffee before the keg. Normally its at Ph 4.78 @ 13C I had some lactic acid and a few 50ml samples. at...
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    Hopshot Syringe Reusable?

    If you order the can you're going to need more than one syringe, you can't just open the can and take what you need and leave the rest in there. Just order a package of 10 30ml syringes with caps from amazon and fill them after you open the can. Cap them and throw them in a zip lock in the...
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    Wyeast 3711 French Saison

    I just brewed this recipe. 1 lbs Rice Hulls (0.0 SRM) Adjunct 1 8.0 % 11 lbs Pilsner (2 Row) Bel (2.0 SRM) Grain 2 88.0 % 1.00 ml Hop extract - Boil 60.0 min Hop...
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    How to tighten up Perlick 630SS faucets to provide more resistance

    This same thing happens to one of my perlicks. I've got 4 of them all the same but one is super easy to use and two I consider normal. The last one takes some force and then does that weird burst thing. I've tried to tighten and loosen the bonnet and nothing changes the feeling. I just took...
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    Well...that was gross.

    A month is a really long time, which is probably why you got those vegetable flavors. Try it in 3-5 days of room temperature storage.
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    Frustrated with thermometers.

    http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00009WE45/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 I've been using that one for a couple years and since I can calibrate it I feel like I can trust it decently well. Not 100% trust because how the hell would I really know if it was off 1 or 2 degrees without a bunch of other...
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    My LHBS Stores grain in Garbage bins, should I be concerned?

    That seems like almost double the cost of grain and hops around here.
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    Thread 1/2 thermometer port all the way through?

    Time for a new hole then! Stupid useless half coupling.
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    Thread 1/2 thermometer port all the way through?

    So got any ideas on how I can go about threading something 1/2" into the inside? If I can't make the threads continue what about taking some sort of rotary tool and just making the end of the coupler disappear so the threads were exposed. Probably wouldn't be easy but I've got access to ton...
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    Thread 1/2 thermometer port all the way through?

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    Thread 1/2 thermometer port all the way through?

    http://www.williamsbrewing.com/42-QUART-BREW-POT-WITH-12-VALVE-P1904.aspx should be that one, though that's not where I bought it years ago. PolarWare 42qt
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    Thread 1/2 thermometer port all the way through?

    My Pot has two ports on the front, one sits under the false bottom and I use that to drain to the pump. The port above it I always assumed was threaded just like the bottom port. Turns out its not threaded all the way through to the inside of the pot. I was thinking about just buying a 1/2-14...
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    False Bottom Failure

    It looks like I've got a similar false bottom as you do. I was doing a 5 gallon batch with only 12lbs of grain and opened the output on the pump a little too much during recirculation. The grain bed compacted and all of a sudden the input hose was full of grain. After the mash I dumped the grain...
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