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I've never been a fan of airlocks of any kind for cold crashing. 3 piece always risk a suck back of whatever they carry, and with s-shape you are just filling your beer with straight up oxygen. Like an earlier poster said, if you aren't filling that vacuum with pure c02, in some way you are...

For the more experienced brewers out there who have been around the game longer, how did home brewing used to go? This is coming from someone who started in January this year and has only 18 batches thus far? I'm talking about 20, 30, 40 years ago or more. How did you get ingredients? Was it...

Background : So this past weekend I brewed a smoked porter. For reference it is the recipe in Brewing Classic Styles. OG called for 1.065. I do BIAB and managed to achieve a 1.073. The recipe calls for 2.5 liquid packets(which I equate to 250 billion cells), but I made a starter using Thames...

I struggled finding a solution to this and wound up stumbling across something really simple like this on here. I do incremental cold crashing too but I only do 2 degree increments a day. Gives the yeast more time to ferment minute sugar that's left and to clean up undesirable compounds. I...

You're absolutely right about the alcohol, however I wouldn't think that as likely after a glass of one beer. I don't disagree on what you said on sugar alcohols, but I doubt he's putting those in his beer. Malt sugars on the other hand, especially malt extract, due to the complexity of their...

If you can get your hands on some of this stuff, it works wonders on alleviating beer related digestive issues.

Cmon has no one here had the beer ****s before? If one is unused to drinking beer, especially one derived from extract, the more complex sugars unconsumed by yeast may excite intestinal bacteria to a state that would produce brief diarrheal distress. However, I'm not a physician, many other...

I am leaning more towards this analysis as well. You said your FG was 1.017. Was that recorded after a course of consecutive readings during fermentation, or was that what the recipe called for and you bottled it as soon as it hit that mark. The yeast in your brew may not be completely done...

How fresh was the smack pack? I would still say a smack pack is underpitching, but you can get away with a smack pack if it's a very fresh one at that gravity. However as they age the yeast within them die off. I would recommend always doing a starter with liquid yeast or buying multiple smack...

Sorry if I missed it, but I didn't see an intended target OG or a yeast count to account for that. What was the target OG? What was the targeted yeast count aimed for? Did you use dry yeast packets? If not did you do a yeast starter that calculated meeting the count requirement?

I would think the term, like many other terms in brewing, is derived from an older English dialect that is no longer in popular use. For instance "pitching" yeast, why not pouring, dumping, sprinkling, etc. Or why hot liquor tank over hot water reservoir, who the hell actually calls water...

Most Americans can probably relate to this. At some point in our lives we have found ourselves at a social gathering where a BMC beverage served as the primary source of cheap and readily available alcohol. Well anyone that can relate to such an event may also be able to relate to getting to a...

People are probably needing clean water in Houston right now. You could've donated those

*crickets*

Took a bronze with a score of 37.

Invest in a filtration system and run the beer through sterilizing micron sized filters when you wish to stop fermentation. Or for a lower abv just use less grain

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I've never had an issue with tannins, but I have noticed squeezing does produce an irreversible haze in my beers. If they're not a darker beer or a NEIPA I just hang and drain

Ss is very good at their customer service and relations. That said I had my controller crap out after only a few months. I contacted Ss, told them my problem, and had a new one all in less than a week. I believe they put a year warranty on all their products. If yours falls outside of that I'd...

I have searched all over for an answer to this and have yet to find any sort of explicit answer. The only thing I've found that comes closest is there seems to be a consensus of thought that dumping wort onto trub from a finished patch is over pitching.