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I have pressure fermented German brewed before, like Pilsner and Helles but I am thinking of pressure fermenting my Irish Red Ale, the yeast I always use the the Wyeast 1084 Irish yeast. Not sure if this yeast will do ok under pressure. My thoughts about how to do it is to let it ride without...

I have had an RO system for years now and normally just fill up plastic bottles like the Primo water you get from Home Depot. But I would like to add a DIY water storage for my system. I would buy a tank, but I would like to store around 13 gallons of water and am too cheap to buy a 14-gallon...

2/12/25 I brewed a Westvleteren 8 recipe from Candi syrup web site. I tried to do everything the recipe says. The OG started at 1.067 and now on 2/14/25 (two days later) the Gravity is down to 1.017. I have never had the gravity drop that low so fast before, has anyone had the gravity drop so...

I have seen posts on getting yeast from a bottle of beer, but I was wondering, hopefully not a stupid idea, of could you just pour the bottle of beer in a yeast starter to get the yeast from it? I guess the process would be to pour a bottle or 2 of beer into the flask and just start up the yeast...

In looking at freezing yeast I noticed that there are 2 kinds of pressure cookers. Some are for canning and others are just for making food, I guess the difference is the ones for canning are for a higher temperature. Will the cheaper ones just for food work for Cryo preservative as called for...

I have been given some Abbey Malt. I have seen very few recipes using it, but was just wondering if anyone here has used it, if so tell me how you used it, in what beer, the amount and if you liked using it. Thanks

What Spunding valve do you use and are you happy with it?

I have been looking at a chart that includes Diastatic power of grains. I am wondering if it has no Diastatic power if those are the ones that would be steeped in an all grain brew. For example I have a recipe that in only maris otter with Crystal 40, Crystal 120 and roasted Barley. If the...

I have a HERMS coil that everytime I clean it lateley or brew with it there seems to be a lot of what looks like grain flake residue that come out of it. I clean it every time after a brew with PBW and sanatize with Starsan, I have had this for many years but in the last few months this has...

looking for suggestions for a small HERMS coil for a 10 gallon pot.

My club was given a 30 gallon Sqarrell (HOME | Squarrel). Not sure how to clean this. I have a chugger pump 7GPM, is there a CIP ball that would work with that pump to clean a 30 gallon Squarrel? Looking for any other ideas from all those Brew Brains out there.

checking out craftbeerpi, haven't bought anything yet, just checking it out. Looking at the wiring diagram at "craftbeerpi.com/hardware" there is an extension board below the diagram. Is this extension board needed? Can the respberry pi 4 handle the load?

I store RO water in plastic containers, Before using the containers should I run some Star San in it to santitize or will it ruin the RO Ph?

If a person (me) makes 2 beers one with let's say OG=1.120 and another one with a gravity of let's say 1.092 and mix them together, what would be the final of the beer that was mixed with the two beers? and how do I figure that out? Not brewing this just thinking about "what if".

just measured my 3 gallon carboy: the carboy weighs 9.94 lb and a of water weighs 8.34 lb. So one gallon in my carboy weighs 18.28 lb. with one gallon in it. 2 gallons is 26.62 lb and 3 gallon is 34.96 lb. The 34.96 gallons of water goes all the way up to the opening in the top of the carboy...

I need 235 billion cells of WLP5300. It comes in a new 70ml pack called PurePitch next generation and is more expensive than the old pack. So how many cell are in the new 70ml wlp purepitch packs of yeast.

I havent tried this, but I have heard that you can carbonate in a keg using the same way you would in bottles and not using CO2 to carbonate. Let me know if this is a good way to do it. I think that once long ago I found something that said you use less priming sugar in a keg than in bottles. I...

How much does 1 tsp of Gypsum weigh in grams?

Question for all you Judges out there: Would the 2021 BJCP style for a Belgian Quad be the same as a Belgian Dark Strong? Tying to make a Westverleteren 12 and wish to follow the 2021 BJCP style.

I have a 115 volt chugger pump and am looking at CIP spray balls. I have heard that some CIP spray balls need a larger pump then mine. I am looking for suggestions or even some education on what to look for that would work for me. I would need it to clean a 30 gallon Squarrel. Thanks guys.