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My fridge kicked the can I guess. Thermostat is screwed and froze my beer that was cold crashing. Any chance I can salvage a brew that froze?

Hey JRod, welcome to the forum. Insulated environment means it won't drop in temperature as fast. A seedling mat's thermometer will stop heating the keg once 68 is reached. Don't expect the fermentation to bring the temperature that much higher, it's not thermonuclear brewing! ;-) So once...

Great, thanks!

@Denny and anyone who brewed Denny's vanilla and bourbon porter: do you add the vanilla and bourbon AFTER the carbonation, or immediately after racking but BEFORE carbonation? What if I decide to naturally carbonate, would it affect the taste of the final product? Thanks for any input. Cheers.

Thanks. I find it too much of a moving target with 2 unknown. Unless I misunderstand something here, the ABV relies on you hitting the right O.G to beging with. With krausening, I understand that I need to have the right amount (at least close enough) of fermenting wort added to the one done...

It took a while to get going as my first machine was damaged and I had to get it swapped. Logistics were still being worked on at Picobrew. Cant complain. I may have tried 1 or 2 batches, not sure, with a full sachet of yeast, but recall joining this site around page 4 of this thread or so ( old...

Has anyone tried krausening their batches? I'm contemplating to do so with a freestyle pak. It helps since I will know the F.G (how do you find the O.G and F.G of paks?) and can calculate the amount of fermenting wort to add to the conditioned keg. I plan on aging it for something like 6 months...

Ha ha.. apres combien de temps au juste? Du coup, on a juste le temps de virer debile. ;-) Je suis chanceux, la mienne travaillais dans une brasserie.

I was wondering... when they advertised the pico back in 2015 Kickstarter, they were saying : I wonder what the hell they had in mind. I can't think of a single beer style, fastferment or not, that would be ready, carbed, and fermented in 7 days. What am I missing? FastFerment should have been...

If you mean freestyle, you start with either water or an official beer style. You have a list of grains to choose from to alter the base style, yeast is static, based on style and the hops based on aroma bitterness and flavour. No temperature tweaking whatsoever. For the temperature you need...

Short answer: you can only adjust alcohol level and bitterness. Everything else is hard coded. Longer answer: The Pico only allows you to adjust ABV and bitterness within a certain rage for each pack. Now, adding adjuncts to the keg during the brew is neither recommended nor supported but in...

Thanks, I have split the wort and pitched separately. We’ll see.... i sure hope it won’t be wasted.

Anyone knows who makes the PicoBrew corny kegs? Can you brew using another keg size? Providing that you fill it with the right amount of water that is.... (I'm thinking of trying a 3gal one) Last but not least... I'm thinking of combining and then splitting batches. I would like to double brew...

For Question 1, if you check the Z's updated page you will see the "pak". Looks like a pre ground mix in a clear bag, so I can only deduct it will be ready to use measured ingredients to be poured in the step filter. Which is perfect for me. As for 2, anyone's guess (Unless Denny wants to chime...

Would a 7.5Gal fermenter be big enough to ferment double Z/Zymatic batches?

I brewed a lager, and when ready I placed it outside to keep. I have been keeping it outside as it's the same temperature as my fridge at the moment. It's 3gal, so double batch. It forced carb it for 8 days at 20 psi, lowered to 4psi to serve. 1st day, party, serving it was without an issue. We...

For what it's worth, I've done both without seeing any difference other than time. When doing multiple matches, it may be convenient to do everything the same day. Brewing, cooling, pitching, set and done. If I brew an evening a pak batch, I often leave it cooling overnight in the basement with...

I can send a picture of what mines look like. If you have a ball lock adapter, all you have to do is use the adapter with something like I built. If not, then you need something to connect. I have not clue unfortunately what the Pico C kegs look like, never seen one and I am using the standard...

Agree with macguyver here. I would add that the only benefit of fast ferment i saw was lagers could ferment in my basement without cooling. Real convenient for me. Also, I now quad brew... 4 batches of the same in a row. using a quarter of the yeast for each batch. 3 full packs of yeast I can...

*sigh* yes indeed. They decline help as well.