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Drink one glass of a previous brew during the boil but no more untill its in the fermenter. Of course an accidental blood offering is also appreciated by the beer gods.

Due to heading towards winter down here the cooler temperatures are slowing down the carbonation of my belgium tripel and will do the same for other brews. My house is pretty well insulated so i haven't used a heater yet this year but the room temp probably gets a little too low for efficient...

Carbonation check of belgium tripel bottled on saturday. I opened the last bottle i did which was only 2/3 full. Yep making co2 but will need a few weeks as its sitting probably under 18C. Seams to be a nice smooth drink though. Just needs time to carbonate. I'm trying not to run a...

I wounder if it got any sourness from the lacto etc that could have been on the grains. I guess you will find out in a few weeks

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I don't have any major issues reading unless i let it get too cold and it fogs up but then it really needs to be stable temperature wise so that is a non normal situation like bringing it between inside and outside with say a 15C temp difference. I did have to adjust the eye piece focus as my...

Some different sizes of conical flasks, pipets and some autoclavable sample tubes Starting to collect stuff to freeze yeast. Got some glucerin the other week. Now I need to find a cheap preassure cooker that will work on my induction cooktop. I have no use for a preassure cooker other than...

If anyone is woundering the xray i used for the label is of my left knee 3 years ago when I broke my leg. 7 screws and a plate from that oopsie plus arthritus from where it healed forming a bump which is grinding the cartilage up. Now I'm waiting for it to get bad enough for replacment to be...

If it tastes alright then it might have been just you inhaled a lot of co2 as you opened the fermenter. It can be quite atrong if you get a good lung full. Strong alcahol smell and taste usually comes from fermenting too hot and doesnt go away. Oops not sure how i ended up on such an old...

Just cracked open the part bottle (2/3rd full just to see how thge carbonation is going to see if i need to warm it up a bit as its been fairly cool over the last few days, nice pop but the beer is pretty flat, I didn't cool it down to have it absorb, more of a curiosity thing. I drunk it...

I don't see anything innovative. just another web app. a real pain if you need to work disconnected etc.

PBW or sodium percarbonate are fine with cold water, just soak a little longer. I use it for my bucket fermenters, a couple of scoups of sodium percarbonate and fill bucket to the rim with cold water and put lid on. Next day or two rinse and its done. That takes off even stubon karusen etc...

Probably brewing a porter in the comming weekend if my knee isn't too bad although i may just take pain killers and brew anyway even if its annoyed and take the chance it doesn't settle down again for next week. My kegerator needs another nice sessionable beer in the next few weeks as I'm...

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Better to get a standard single output regulator for the tank then multiple secondary regulators as needed. You can add the secondary ones later and they are less bulkey and cheaper and just connect to a 50PSI feed from the main tank regulator. I use micromatic secondaries. Very conveniant for...

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Yep learning lessons helps. Once you get the water, sanitation and fermentation temperature sorted its kind of hard to make really bad beer so now you have a good one you are on the right track.

Its pitched so you have spent money on it so let it ride and see what happens. It might not be great if burnt but its your first AG batch so wait and see, all you have to loose is time. You can always get another fermenter if you are in a hurry to try again.

Getting frustrated my my aching knee needing a rest so i played arround in beer Smith with my next brew, a porter based on a recipe i found on the net for a speights old dark clone. If it wasn't for my knee it would have been brewed today. After a bad week knee wise i really needed to rest it...

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