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6 hours have passed. Did it blow?

That is a darn good looking kraussen:)

Kevin definitely has the best prices. I think last time I did the math, the 10 lb bags at NB were costing the same per pound as the 50 shipped. That was about a year ago though.

Gotcha. Yeah shipping on 55lb bags sucks. Small bags makes sense. Doesn’t sound bad!

I’m a cheapskate on a colossal scale. That being said, if it wasn’t overly expensive, I’d give it a shot. And by overly expensive - if it costs me $65 for a sack of regular 2-row and said service wants $100 for their 2-row- no way. Between 65 and 80 - probably as long as it made something decent.

That is beastly!

Snow last weekend- hot this one. I’ve got my 7- year olds birthday party tomorrow so no brewing for me. Did a 2 gallon dunkelweissen last weekend that is steady bubbling!

If you are dropping 200 degree wort into a chest freezer and leave a significant headspace, there is a good chance you will pull starsan into the tank. But if you minimize the headspace, the volume of starsan pulled towards the system should be similar to the volume of shrinkage in the wort from...

I don’t really bother monitoring fermenter temp. I’ll set my chest freezer and assume 1-2 degree variance and leave it alone. I was looking up temp control for sankes today and someone mentioned either an engine block hoist to get them in or out or just pumping cooled wort directly to the sanke...

That’s awesome - what do you do about temperature control on the sankes? If there was such a thing as a 6.5 gallon corny, I’d ferment in that but 10 gallons is too heavy to lift into my chest freezer.

That is an amazing setup. I hate racking and siphoning. SS tacking cane with this setup sounds like the win. I’m eyeballing that SS blowoff probably pipe thing at Morebeer currently. I really despise plastic/pvc

If you are limited on time, 2.5 gallons is much better than ZERO gallons :)

When I’m short on time, I do stovetop 2.5 gallon in a ss pot, cover it with tin foil after boil and stick it in a bathtub full of cold water. At some point when I have time again in the next day or so, I’ll spray the crap out of the pot with starsan, transfer the wort to a fermenter and pitch...

Man I want to get one of those 14 gallon SS Brewing tech conicals with temp control. Maybe when the kids are out of the house haha

Unfortunately they only do business hours.

I use arc3 gases off of highway 6. Same price but they only do exchanges

Congrats man! I’ve got 3 myself (1,5,n7). They keep me busy. They like to help on brewday though. I just kegged a weissenbock and a Baltic porter. The weissenbock brew day was a disaster but the beer turned out ok. Needs some age though. It’s got a serious kick

Just in case your SWMBO one day takes it over as a food freezer again haha.

Thought I’d add my 2 cents: If you haven’t already, don’t glue the collar on! Use the foam strips that are for insulating doorways/ closing the gaps between the door and door frame. I used the 3/4” wide strips and applied the adhesive side to the bottom of the collar. It gave me an airtight seal...

How long are you planning to spur the unhopped wort with the lacto before blending? I've never done a sour but it's on the list