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If you are kettle souring you really shouldn't have any issues between the boil and any "best practice" cleaning and sanitation. Plantarum's hop tolerance is at MAX 10 and I really would put it in more of the 3-5 IBU category so you should be good either way. Never had any issues with...

I've paired it with both Amarillo and Citra and the Amarillo was definitely better

I have both and use my 7g much more often than the 6. I like having the extra headspace to prevent blowouts.

If you want sour I would look at adding pedio as it should be a bit more hop tolerant. Adding dregs from unpasteurized commercial sours as you go will help as well

I haven't used those specifically but in using bourbon soaked chips before it can be extracted in just a couple days. IIRC I typically only had them in the fermenter for 2-3 days after fermentation. Basically just taste daily until you reach the desired level of flavor for the beer and then...

Check your wiring to make sure nothing is touching, I had a similar problem after I moved with all the jostling around. A quick "touch up" and it has worked perfectly since

Brewed with Viking Pale Malt yesterday for the first time. Hit the same efficiency that I do with Briess Brewers Malt. I have another 10# bag to use and assuming the next bag goes as well as the first I may be switching to Viking for my base malt

Another recommendation for OYL 605. My process typically is a quick boil then chill to 95* and pitch. 18 hours later the pH would be around 3.65 which was a nice tartness level for "entry level" sours. I believe that 605 hits "terminal" pH of 3.2 around the 24 hour mark so 18-24 hours is...

Brewers Hardware is located in California and they do custom work as well (on their premium kettles)

1 - it all depends on how you value money/what you want to get out of everything; for me there is no prebuilt controller that will do exactly what I want; I buy a ton of stuff on Amazon butI would not buy a brewery controller there 2 - nope, you do not need one for you MLT 3 - haven't used the...

Haven't done one yet with Kveik, LHBS that carries it never seems to have it in stock. From everything I have read on Milk the Funk use fruity hops and pitch warm, 85-95 as this will increase the fruity esters the yeast puts off. Personally I'd just pitch the whole package unless you were...

The attached worked but not the first two

I buy all my bulk grain from More Beer in 10# bags. $1.06 for base malt with free shipping. The 10# bags work better for me from a storage standpoint so it's a win win. They are now carrying Viking Malt and on my next order I'm going to give that a try as it was .79/# last time I checked.

I used to use an aluminum tamale steamer when I brewed on my stove. Worked pretty well for about 5.5 gallons post boil. It was filled pretty much up to the top but my stove wasn't powerful enough to generate a boil over as long as I was watching it. I think I only paid $25 for it which was...

The 2 door bar back cooler is what I have seen at bars that keep casks on all the time

I don't have a SS Unitank but I do know that carbonation stones work a little differently than using head pressure to carbonate in the keg. First of all the carbonation stone will have a "wet pressure" which is the PSI that is required to get CO2 to flow through the stone. Could be anywhere...

I used it when I worked at a commercial brewery and it definitely has it's pros and cons. Compared to star san it was cheap because we pulled it out of a 55 gallon drum and only used a couple ounces at a time. Being non foaming is a necessity when you are pumping everything through CIP to...

I was poking around on the probrewer message boards as well as some industry spec sheets and it seems like the MAX is 1 week if kept at room temp or below. It is suggested that you use test strips daily to make sure the concentration is at an acceptable level

the milk the funk wiki page has a whole section devoted to barrels, lots of info on the facebook page as well

I'm interested in how you connected/incorporated the cartridge heater through the triclamp. I am in the process of trying to figure out how I want to do a RIMS system and like the idea of the cartridge heater but haven't quite figured out how to install it with the AliExpress RIMS tube. All...