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I am an all grain brewer, and lately my beers have had a strong tart flavor in the finish. I had never had a problem with this, but I took about a year off of brewing (had a house fire), and everything I have brewed since coming back has had this flavor. There are a couple of factors that I...

I've been doing mostly BIAB and batch sparging, but I've been thinking about getting started in fly sparging. I have a 3 vessel gravity system available to do it. When I load my beer into beersmith and select a fly sparging method on beers with larger grain bills (16lb for 5 gal batch), it...

So I had a recipe that called for 1lb smoked malt (16lb grain bill, 5 gallon batch). When I asked for it at my LHBS the guy pulled down 5 buckets of different "smoked" malt and asked which one I wanted. I gave them a wiff and went with the peated. When pouring my grain I realized that I...

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GWYNCGW/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 I have one of these Ecowasher units that I use with my laundry. It takes in cold water and electronically modifies it into a cleaning chemical, mostly peroxide. Here is a quote from their website: It works great for my...

I've been brewing for a while and am getting to the point where I'm wanting to look seriously at my water situation and how to improve my beer. First some background. I have well water in my house that has about 3000-4000 PPM of salt in it. I have a water softener and a reverse osmosis...