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Winemakers already know about fresh fruit additions without boiling. You add some kmbs to your fruit pulp at about 50ppm and let it sit for a day. That will kill wild yeasts. Also adding lysozyme will knock out bacterial fermentation. When you add it to your wort the kmbs will get diluted down...

Just keep track of your supplementary water additions to the cereal mash and subtract that from your sparge volume - then you don't have to worry about mineral additions etc (if they really matter anyways, as my recent experimentations informs me no one can taste any difference).

Bosa Grape in Burnaby has a pretty good selection and are awesome about shipping with Greyhound. http://ecom.bosagrape.com/home.php Chris

Nice write up overall, but Falconers Flight 7C's is actually a blend, it is not a single variety which is what the article seems to indicate. It is however delicious and produces a very nice PA/IPA in my opinion.

Not the same, but similar, and yes, I'm running a HERMS. Not sure exactly why it gets stuck. Never happens when I let it siphon naturally into the BK but it will on the pump if it sits w/o running for a while. It happens more frequently with my HLT, which doesn't have a FB but does have a...

Mine gets stuck all the time. Even with the kettle full. I think water vapor gets up into the dip tube during heating. I find that the only thing that works is to disconnect from the pump and open the HLT valve a smudge to get water flowing down the hose before reconnecting. I cheaped out...

Resurrection time! I have 2 Corny kegs converted to Sanke amongst my herd of Sanke stainless. I'd love a few more, and here's why - they are just a little narrower than the 1/6 barrel Sankes and I can fit an extra keg in my keezer if 2 of them are Cornies. With my keg washer, I don't have...

I thought I'd start a thread about projects that didn't really work out that well. Feel free to share yours! Mine is the flat counter flow heat exchanger I made based upon an article I read in Brew Your Own. It's a cool looking 1/2" copper tubing inside 3/4" PEX that consists of 6 straight...

I'm going to try the dilution experiment. From my experience with wine I suspect the problem is total acidity more than the pH itself. I have the tools to perform a TA test but the number is not really important. I should be able to drop TA by 1/2 by diluting with another batch, but I like the...

I brewed mid-August. It's been off the puree for about 9 weeks now. Chris

Yes. I suppose that's another option. It will leave me with a LOT of this particular beer. Which is great if the beer is good. :-)

I was very keen to brew with apricots this summer. I had 10lbs of fresh apriots and decided to do do a golden strong ale with WLP500 as the alternative looked to be a wheat ale but I'd done way too many of those lately. I wanted something different and was itching to to do something with a...

Copper is also selling for about 10 times the price of stainless these days and you can't clean it the same way as stainless, so it's less popular. It is a far better heat conductor than stainless. I use it for my heat exchangers, nothing wrong with it. Regarding contact with wine, wine is...

The YV is quite dry with a long growing season, which is ok for the end of hop growing season. They take irrigation early on. I suspect the high levels of irrigation needed for vegetable crops make them less financially viable.

Literally 1/4 the price to refill at Costco over exchange price.

Once again HBT rocks!

You did a great description! Although the image got rotated from what I had planned, it seems to match your explanation. Chris

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I picked up this contactor but I have some questions! This model doesn't come marked, but can I assume; the silver contact in the center is one side of the coil which matches the other silver contact on the other side not visible? And, that the brass contacts are the line and load contacts...