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Hello this is my first time building water from RO and I have used ez water calculator but I am a bit hesitant as to whether I did it correctly or not. I used another thread in hbt where a guy showed the target water profile of: Ca+2 -- 140 Mg+2 -- 12 Na+ --7 CL- -- 55 SO4-2 -- 300 HCO3- -- 0...

I have a recipe that says to ferment at 19c, then "dry hop post fermentation for 5 days at cellar temperatures (14c) for best results" This is for an IPA and I was wondering which order to do the d-rest. This is what I had in mind, if someone could correct me please. Ferment at 19c...

I have an ale that's should have a final gravity of 1.015. It's been four days and the gravity is already reading 1.016(from 1.065). This is using a brix meter and a brix calculator online. I tasted the beer that I sampled from the spigot (about 1/3 cup) to get a gravity reading. It tasted...

I've got a dead guy clone that I sampled the other night after fermenting for 3 days. The gravity dropped from 1.065 to 1.019 and the FG should be at 1.015. I sampled a bit of it when checking the gravity and noticed a significant honey flavor which I think is possibly an off flavor caused by...

I made a huge mistake with my first batch. I did not know that the brix meter would only read out accurately for unfermented wort. After primary fermentation I was reading unusually high degrees plato and it stayed high for several days before I read online that the degrees plato would have to...

I've got an STC-1000 hooked up to my chest freezer fermenting beer at 16c with the 'd' setting at 1 degree so that it kicks on if it reaches 17c. Currently it is turning the compressor on about every 20 minutes for 5 minutes or so. I was just wondering how often is too often for the...

I'm considering fermenting in 20L kegs because a friend has several with damaged stems that I was thinking of converting. Just wondering how much space I should leave for the krausen.

Hello HBT! I've got a question that might seem a bit stupid, but I just want to make absolutely sure. I have recently purchased a system capable of producing 15 gallons of boiled wort. I also have a temp controlled freezer that can accommodate my 15 gallon fermenter. However, if I were to use...

I've been fermenting a Punk IPA clone for about 9 days now and I want to be at about 1.022, but have currently been steady at 1.030. Does this mean ferm is well done and I shouldn't bother trying to reach the target? Here is a bit of additional information. I fermented for about 3.5 days and...

I live in Vietnam where there are frequently scheduledpower outages that last 4-5 hours. I was well aware of this and planned to do some resaerch into what kind of generator I would want to keep my fermentation chamber (chest freezer) and eventually a modified air conditioner (glycol chiller)...

Just wondering because a recipe I tried to put in for Punk IPA showed IBU ratings that were significantly lower than what I was getting in brewsmith when I input the hops with current AA%. I'm getting 110IBU in Brewsmith but the actual beer is only 45IBU while the recipe. The recipe is from...

I know there are a lot of variables here, but hopefully someone can give me some rough numbers based on their experience. How much of an increase did you see in your electricity bill by running this setup? I'd like to run a small window air conditioning unit as a glycol chiller pumping into...

I'm about to make one of these but before I go through with it I was just wondering if there are any adverse effects that the copper would have on the wort. Do most copper piping have some type of coating on the outside that I need to be concerned about? Will it affect the flavor? Thanks...

What I would like to do is have a DIY glycol chiller made with an air conditioner like I've seen on some youtube videos. I would then like make a few immersion chillers inside of the fermenters to run the glycol through for temp control. My question is, how reliable is such a system? While...

Hello, I'm using Brewsmith and I've plugged in all the information to match Brewdog's Punk IPA recipe that they have on their website. However, when I put everything in to match the recipe, the IBU is 73 (in the software). It should be closer to 45 according to the recipe. I was just...