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I would not try to heat a fermenting keg inside a kegerator you're also trying to serve cold beer out of. You would basically be putting your kegerator into a continuous loop of coo,bug trying to overcome the heating of the fermenting keg. Fast ferment on the countertop for now as long as rock...

My point is, how do you go into a massive fundraiser selling unlimited packs and not resolve any potential supplier issues. Good companies have their act together and account for supplier issues through inventory management. I'm a bit concerned they are not properly distributing their capital...

Agree, a bit disappointed in the picopak shipments thus far, I have a freestyle and a few of their standards on order since 6/27 with no change in status.... purchased one from Amazon which was here in 2 days. When a company does not have something in stock, I appreciate the transparency when...

Riht now I think it's about a week plus for them to ship. Note that Williams Sonoma and Northern Brewer also sell some of the core Picopaks.

Was not expecting that compared to my grainfather system which is nearly silent.

Is the pico normally loud? Seems like the pump and other stuff are fairly loud when running yeah? Normal?

https://www.brewersfriend.com/yeast-pitch-rate-and-starter-calculator/ Enter your OG, and batch volume, select yeast strain and go for maybe pro brewer 0.75 to ensure a healthy amount. I'd guess a half packet would be great.

Partly we we refer to them as NEIPAs to distinguish them from say, a west coast IPA. I like that brewers are experimenters, craft beer would be so boring if every beer was brewed to a style in the BJCP guidelines. The NeIPA may become a style because both the technique and ingredients are...

If wheat and oats are cloud-inducing adjuncts then so are hops, yeast, etc. I think you might be reaching to try and justify your personal dislike of the style by some scientific, factual, traditional basis? Why not just be content that you don't like them but that doesn't make people who like...

Exactly my point

I'm not at all offended by what others like or don't like. There are plenty of beers and plenty of ways to make beer that a person can pretty much do whatever they want and drink whatever they want. I'm not an evangelist for the style - I drink all styles of beer, there are some I like more...

Is anyone curating a list of must try pico packs? I bought the Pico C then upgraded to the S as a very early bird. I've been brewing for a very long time all grain and have been using a Grainfather for 5gal batches since it came out, but the Pico caught my interest as a travel brewing...

i dont know the defect description "takes like it is bottle carbonated"... there are a variety of beers bottle carbonated so maybe you meant instead "all hop aroma is gone" or "beer tastes oxidized" or something along those lines? not capping on foam could be an issue with your process...

Agree with all this, I have one and use it, but it's very much like a novelty gimmick more than a scientific instrument. To me, based on what it can do it's about $50-75 too expensive. It's convenient not having to open the conical to take a reading, but honestly I didn't really take too many...

What are you trying to make? Do you have a target in mind? A commercial examp,e that is along the lines of what you want to make? Your recipes are essentially for a malty bitter IPA. If you are going for a New England IPA style that's floral, citrusy, tropical with an understated malt and...

Were you shooting for different outcomes? As others have mentioned, I don't see a whole lot of practical differences between the two recipes that will show up in tasting. If you want to find out the differences between two hops, consider recipients that isolate those hops versus complex blends...

Also what yooper said.

All other things being equal, a beer at 14psi for 4 weeks will be carbed to 14psi. How do you know it's 14psi? You mention popping the release valve lets out a forceful burst of pressure, so I suspect it's not the regulator. What is your draft setup? Lines ID, length, tap type... You...

What temp are the capped bottles sitting at? How did you determine how much corn sugar to use? Did you use 1 fluid oz. or 1 oz. (i.e. How did you measure) and what was the fermentation temperature? And what was the yeast?

Yeast don't work on the schedule someone prints in a recipe. They should really just eliminate the dates thing altogether because it is a wild guess or a wish. Yeast are done when terminal gravity is reached. And that cannot be accurately predicted by a calendar. I would not use airlock...