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My boils develop random flareups like this on occasion, I'm not sure of the cause and I don't think it matters that much. Controlling it is what's important here, and for that purpose I use Fermcap on all my boils. Works like a charm.

I went ahead and ran your recipe through Brewers Friend water calculator, which is what I use. I used your water profile and no mineral additions. Your mash pH was going to be 5.7. Not horrible, but not ideal. Using your recipe as posted, if I replace a 1/2lb of your base malt with 1/2lb of...

I'm guessing your in PDX, I'm right across the river in Vancouver and am jealous of your water. For the purposes of homebrewing, you can essentially work with it like you'd work with distilled. Basically what the water report tells you is that you have almost negligible ionic content. For your...

For an IPA I'd probably use twice as much hops as you've listed, and put them in at 5 & flameout. I'd move the 15 min hops to 5 min or flameout. I'd half the crystal, drop the carapils and change .75 flaked wheat to 1lb wheat malt. I would NOT use 5.2 (ever). But in this beer, surely it would...

In case anyone is interested, I added 1oz of lactic acid and it's just about right to my taste for a gose. 5 gal batch, full keg. It does either fade or mix a bit with age.

When I'm sent to sleep on the couch, I typically grab a sham on the way down there. So yes, I sleep with them often.

@chickypad Hey thanks! I didn't know about that, and you're right, it functions just as you said it would.

PB might displace the FG a little bit, nibs wouldn't. But lactose definitely does. Ya you'd think the kit numbers would account for it, but maybe not... I know that Beersmith accounts for it for the OG but oddly it does NOT account for it in the FG. I use Beersmith, and because of that, I didn't...

How does it taste? Is it a 5 gallon batch, and how much lactose did you add? If you added a lb of it, that FG of 1030 actually sounds about right to me (maybe just a bit high). Lactose will add points to your FG because it's mostly unfermentable, and if you weren't accounting for that it can...

Hi there, I brewed a 5 gal batch of gose, 60/40 wheat pils, no late hops, 1 oz coriander, .5 oz pure salt. I did not use any souring, opting to add lactic acid to the keg. I've found various recommendations but no agreement. Thinking of starting with 3 oz lactic acid addition to the keg with...

I'm not good at math, but to answer your actual question I'd say a couple purges would be enough in your situation, because I don't believe cider is prone to oxidation like beer, unless we're talking about a very long period of time. Lots of Good Will Hunting on this thread.

If it were me, I'd just make a couple hop teas. One with some good smelling ones, and one with some different smelling ones. Just bring a couple cups of water to the boil, turn the heat off, drop some hops in, stir for a bit and let it cool, maybe refrigerate it, then taste it.

If I understand your thought, the chemical isn't actually going into the beer, you're hoping that it off-gasses O2 when mixed with water, which you could then push into another space and perc through the wort. I haven't done the math, but I really don't think it would push enough O2 to make it...

I used it in a Baltic porter at a fairly low percent. I quite liked it, but that is probably one of the only styles I would use it in. I wouldn't quite peg it as licorice myself, but something pretty close to that. It needed to age out a bit to sit nicely in there.

Mash 60 min @151F IBU 35 14.6 SRM Single batch sparge Est ABV 5.6%

In case anyone is interested in this sort of thing, I'll update this in a few weeks with FG, tasting notes, pics, etc. after the keg is ready. 5 gal batch Water treated to balanced profile. Mash pH 5.3 11lb Red X .5 Admiral @60 1.5 Admiral @5 Measured OG 1.052 Yeast S05 @67F

I've experienced lager yeast actually making better beer after repitching it a few times. Specifically 2124 and WLP810.

Thanks for asking, yes I'm starting to heal up a bit. At this pace I think it's gonna be about 2 more weeks to heal, with at least half of that time continuing to be bandaged up. It's still painful enough to be rotating through pain meds, but they do work, which is a good thing, because the...

This is actually useful info if this happens to anyone, so I'll share it: I did hit it with cold water right afterwards up until I hightailed it to the ER. Kept it under the sink for about 5 minutes. I can't prove it but I think it probably helped a little bit in the long run but not much...