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Ok, so I brewed a berliner weiss/saison hybrid using a 48 hour sour mash. I took everyones advice and prepared myself for the stench that would ensue and ignored it in the hopes that it would go away and a nice brew would result of it. I bottled the beer over a week ago and tried my first...

Yah, I used poplar on mine and left it untreated and it works great. I went with a larger plank but should have probably done the 1x4x48 as my mash paddle is fricken massive, but it makes a good home security system.

Thanks, it was a quick effort, I was going to do something more stylized like Cape Brewing's paddle, but lack of a good cutting tool kept it simple. Yah, The Monks Flemmish is great, especially for $3.99 a bottle.

Here is mine: Mash Paddle

Yah, I've heard of people using it and it's probably safe. I just left mine unfinished though.

I'm in Oregon City and we have really soft water also. I haven't been filtering it, but will be starting with this next batch. Like one of the above replies I also have an old house so I'm more concerned about other crap in the water, but it will hopefully also remove any chlorine in the water...

Thanks for the great tutorial Tony. I got it up and running with only a few problems. One question, when the vortex gets down to the bottom the stir bar kicks a bunch of bubbles around, but this isn't sustained. Normally the vortex is smooth and just barely reaches to the stir bar. Is this...