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My steam condenser failed today. I checked it to make sure it was operating properly but instead sending out a mist in a cone, it was sending out two little streams. I put it back in figuring it was better than nothing, I checked again a little later but it had stopped spraying completely. I...

10 gallons (into the kegs) of Festbier 2654.5+10=2664.5

I'm brewing my festbier for our Oktoberfest party in September.

I screwed up today. I was making a Cilantro Lime wheat beer. I was supposed to add lime juice and zest with 5 minutes left to go in the boil and forgot. I was chilling and down to about 100 when I realized it. So I removed the hops (in a spider), reheated the wort to 185 and added the juice...

I screwed up today. I was making a Cilantro Lime wheat beer. I was supposed to add lime juice and zest with 5 minutes left to go in the boil and forgot. I was chilling and down to about 100 when I realized it. So I removed the hops (in a spider), reheated the wort to 185 and added the juice...

2004 + 5 gallons of Cilantro Lime Wheat =2009

I did something similar many years ago. I intended to add Polyclar to the beer to help it clear and added a cleaner instead. I quickly realized what I had done and dumped the beer.

Spartan's Hausbrauerei und Bierkeller. At one time I was using Barley Island Brewing. I had gotten that off an Sam Adams calendar I had in the 90's. But later I found there was a commercial brewery in Indiana using that name. I wonder if they got it from the same calendar I did.

I rarely get more than 1/2 inch of foam. I use it it more for when I'm boiling the starter. 2-3 drops. I do use a stir plate.

I always use FermCap in mine. That's the only place I use it anymore.

I do a decoction once a year and I get about 10 percentage points (86 vs. 76) on that beer compared to my normal single infusion mashes. The first time I had to take out about 2 gallons of wort (in 11 gallons) and add water! It took me a couple of batches to trust those numbers.

The Altbier Stange is shorter and wider than a Kolsch Stange. The Altbier Stange holds .25l compared to .2l for Kolsch.

I stopped using Fermcap when I went to electric. I've only had one boil over and that was because I raised the percentage after I started running wort through my chiller and forgot to turn it back down.

When I took a silver medal in Pilsner in 2019 I rebrewed my beer after the first round. I have my process and system down well enough that my beers are pretty consistent from batch to batch. But you could tweak the recipe for the recipe for the second round if you want to. If you're in a...

NHC is not the competition to enter if you're looking for feedback. There are very few written comments on the scoresheets they use for this competition. NHC is more about winning medals.

I don't get anywhere near that much through mine, although I probably vorlauf more than most. I don't even get a teaspoon full of grain in my hop spider.

I switched to a Blichmann false bottom and it's not any better than what comes with the Infussion MT. My old cooler with a manifold on the bottom did a better job of keeping out the bits. I just run the wort through my hop spider as it goes into the kettle. That works fine. There really...

Breweries probably also can't be fixed in the 72 hours they use on the restaurant/bar shows.

I'd watch it, but as mentioned above, a similar show, Dark Horse Nation, was done in 2014. It only lasted one season and they did have some interesting characters.

I had a pH meter like that many years ago. The bulb is probably dried out and it may not work. But you may as well give it a shot.