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Sidebar: do you recirculate for a few minutes to santize your chiller system? And that effect your inline O2 stone at all? Ever had any issue with wort creeping back up the O2 line?

I recirculate ice water through my CFC and it still takes me ~15mins+ to get down below 37°C/100°F and I almost never end up at pitching temp. My cooling system usually stalls at 26°C/78°F. Now granted, I'm recirculating the same 6 gallons of chiller water continuously and water can only cool...

Err.... I'll rebalance the Vienna and pilsner then. I'm trying to avoid a Marzen. Hoping for something slightly maltier and and crushable.

Getting a good response from this. Lots of good feedback in this thread. After further tinkering with Beersmith, I've come up with this: This uses the "Yellow Full" water profile and uses 4% acidulated to get the projected mash pH down to 5.42. Amt Name Type %/IBU Volume 9.0 gal...

What is a reasonable amount of acidulated malt? 12oz? I redid the water profile last night and only needed 12oz to get to 5.3pH "on paper." I also swapped a couple pounds of pilsner for a couple pounds of Vienna malt. I have 34/70 available. If I can get away with fermenting at ~74°F, then...

Ed, I am shooting for something sessionable and not too sweet. My recipe OG is 1.054 / 21.2IBU / 5.6SRM. Duly noted on the water profile though. I'll ditch that in favor of something a bit simpler.

Looking for feedback on a festbier recipe, although a pseudo festbier actually... I was playing around with a recipe in Beersmith last night and this is what I came up with: Kettle RIMS system I use roughly 60% efficiency Boil size: 7.5 gallon Batch size: 5.5 gallon Beersmith Munich water...

My initial read was "Hmm, I bet that'll be an interesting beer."

I got an order in from Midwest a couple weeks ago. I don't use them for much as my LHBS gets 80% of my business and Adventures in Homebrewing/Austin Homebrew Supply get the other 20%. But I wanted another Big Mouth Bubbler and Depth Charge lid so I placed an order.

So, basically, you need to go from 3/8" tube to 3/16" and back to complete the circuit? Try a 3/16x3/8 barb reducer: https://www.amazon.com/Beduan-Reducer-Reducing-Fitting-Splicer/dp/B0823RBHN2 *Doesn't have to be that fitting but something like it will work. -Or- something I did with my...

I have no idea where you are out in West Texas but there's an outfit called Kegconnection that's in Commanche. I've done some business with them before. Just ordered some cleaning supplies, actually. Either them or one of the shops in Fort Worth is likely your best bet. That, or deal with...

Brewed this recipe back in January - principally because I needed to make a large batch of yeast to ferment a Strong Scotch Ale (Wee Heavy) over afterwards. This was well reviewed by the folks I allowed to try it. This is a five gallon recipe, based on roughly 60% brewhouse efficiency. I...

I was, yes. Time to mix up a new batch. Likely so. Which is why I'm going to use Iodophor when I rebrew it tonight.

Well I "StarSan'd" the entire set up before pumping the wort in. I did exactly nothing different than I've done countless times before. This is my first infection in 10+ years of brewing. My best guess is is my batch of StarSan needs replaced and/or since I brew outside, something wild found...

That is certainly less expensive than purchasing a ready-made unit. I wonder what efficiency you could get of that?

Well, if it turns out well, save the trub and repitch it. You can tell everyone you have a "house strain."

Roughly the same thing happened to me. Spent seven hours Saturday brewing a saison, didn't get around to pitching the yeast until Monday afternoon. Arrived home Monday to pitch my starter to this: I dumped it because it reeked of mushrooms growing on wet dogfood. I have no time or desire...

Because laws; laws interpreted very literally. If it meets California standards for potentially causing cancer, they slap a label on it.

All my hose connections (camlock or otherwise) are mechanically secured in some form. As day_trippr said, I try to keep things simply and I don't know like the idea of being sprayed by hot wort.

@BrewnWKopperKat Thanks! This is exactly the type of amswer I was looking for.