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Are you talking about carb level of the beer or head retention of the beer? Soap can reduce head retention but will not impact how much co2 is actually dissolved in the beer. You can have a perfectly carbed beer with absolutely no head on it. What's your brew process?

Force carbing above serving pressure causes a lot of these threads. Too short a serving line causes a lot of these threads. Fiddling with pressure and venting on already carbed beer causes a lot of these threads. It's supposed to take some time to be ready... Relax and take some time.... Over...

Cannonau Di Sardegna is from Sardinia. Cannonau is the Italian name for the Grenache grape, used in rose from France and super popular in Spain as garnacha. If you're looking to make a wine that tastes like cannonau, it would be best to start with Grenache... You can likely get grapes from...

Don't even need a brush to clean PET.

Agree, no reason to try to get it back into suspension.

How much volume you looking to displace? It's a lot easier to top off with more wine than to try to increase the size of a fixed volume, the topping wine you get back and in a 21L batch (I'm assuming you're using a kit) one or two bottles is not going to make a difference on taste

I think with hobbies, people like to dive right in, and all grain provides a lot more stuff to do, a lot more fancy equipment needs and an excuse to turn the hobby into an obsession.... Like any hobby, the ones that are into it the most tend to make it consume as much of their time and effort...

Agree, start with smash so you've ruled out other variants and isolated to the hop and malt... All things being equal, different hops shod produce different results. Same hop used differently should produce different results. Start here and then get all crazy with the extra hop varieties and...

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Leaking on the bottom of the freezer is often not a quick disconnect issue but a post o-ring or poppet valve inside the post issue. You should be able to keep the keg connected to both liquid and gas until the keg kicks. Use 3/16 line and start with 10' per tap... In most cases you can just...

Anyone have any practical feedback on its use yet? Lot of unboxing remarks but I care more about how it works, pluses minuses, things you like about it, how it fits into your brewing/fermenting program, cleaning, things you don't like or would mod or fix, and so in. Is it to early for this...

Beer line can be used for gas line in home setups without issue. The length and size of gas line is very forgiving, the length and size of liquid line must be considered in your build to achieve either proper balance or proper restriction to control foaming. Better to have too long a line and a...

Not sure I read your process correctly, but priming in the bottle won't carb if your plan is to freeze the bottles at the same time, yeast won't produce co2 at freezing temps... Definitely can't carb in glass safely.

I believe I have read in several articles it was brettanomyces lambicus... I think this was mentioned specifically in some of the recall notices they had in 2010/11

You can force carb and serve at same pressure... Forcing at a higher pressure only gets you on tap a few days sooner, once you have 4 on tap there won't be the rush to do so, trust me. 6-way would be good if that's your eventual plan.

I find brewers tend not to want to define themselves and their product by a generic beer style label. It seems many brewers like to get very creative with naming their product and making it truly unique. So I don't think this generic non-unique approach will appeal too much. What is the...

Agree, dual body regulator not super essential, manifold is probably better to start.

One of the sct-1000 threads showed using a basic telephone jack connector and jack... Seemed to work quite well and easy to install with no special parts.

Pumpkinman - I think William was suggesting to the OP to skip the Italian wines for a new oak barrel as it would make his wine too oaky very quickly, not that Italian wines are too oaky in general. Which is essentially the same thing I suggested. Chose wines that can take a lot of oak as...

To each their own... Some are extremely paranoid about sanitation and some are just cautious. As has been mentioned, there are plenty of examples of successful bottling without autoclaving the caps or taking other extreme measures. If you are going to starsan your caps, then you can save...