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Pellets stored in glass jars, purged with co2 and frozen? I read about how well frozen hop pellets last in the freezer. And I have a vacuum pack machine. But the vacuum bagging method is not convenient. I have to open a bag containing many ounces of pellets, just to use one ounce. And...

I"m sure many folk aleady do this, but today's discovery was fun, so thought I'd share. I've started sterilizing my small kegs by filling them with starsan and pushing it all through with co2. Using fermentation gas when I can, otherwise with bottle gas. But I know that when I fill the keg...

Good morning all I have just started using a hop bong. Photo below. It appears that I have to keep the bottom half of the device attached to the keg, all the way through to the closed transfer. I pitch the yeast into my corny keg, attach the hop bong and close the butterfly valve. I can...

So, my hydrometer says 1052 and my refractometer says 1048. I have been careful with my hydrometer readings. Spin the pipe, watch closely, ensure the surface tension is not messing up the view. And I have carefully calibrated my refractometer. Cleaning it, adding room temp water...

Doing my very first purge of a serving keg, using liquid instead of gas. Hope I'm doing it right. I have a fermenter bubbling away. After the fermenter are two serving kegs in a daisy chain. And then a bucket at the very end. From the fermenter, a gas/gas jumper pushes gas into a serving...

Good morning, all I know this has been discussed, but I just viewed a Brulosophy experiment that showed that adding the hops when pitching the yeast, gave results with no sensory difference from dry hopping at full Krausen, or even at end of fermentation. If true, this is a convenient method...

This is about minimizing oxygen, and the lid choices on the All Rounder. My confusion may be due to my being new to hop bongs. I'm looking at buying a Kegland All Rounder. Thirty liter. It comes with a lid fitted for gas and liquid posts. All good. You can pressurize and do closed...

Received a new hop bong from BrewHardware. Very interesting. I already had a corny keg lid that accepts the bong, so this should be good to go. Couple questions. Should there not be a prv on the top? Instead there is a brass nut. Also the lever handle does not close all the way. It...

Is ample head space really a requirement for a fermenter vessel? I have always assumed it is. we need lots of room for krausen and space for co2 above the krausen. The reason I'm challenging this assumption is I have moved down to small batches in my serving kegs. I have moved away from my...

I’m starting to wonder if recirc is even necessary. In my circumstances. In an overnight, full volume, small batch mash in my Brewzilla, I have been running the recirc pump, on low, with the hose coiled and resting on the mash, under water. I understand that advantage of recirc is to get...

Good evening all. Question about the grind gap. I have a AIO Brewzilla gen 4 35 liter. I make three gallon batches. Overnight mash with a continuous and gentle vorlauf. Full volume mash, no sparge. My lhss grinds at 1 ml or .039 inch. He will do a double crush, which helps a bit...

My supplier grinds my grains. His mill is set at one ml, or .039. I don’t own a mill. He won’t change the grind setting but will grind it twice for me if I wish. I do AIO in a Brewzilla gen 4. Three gallon batches. Full volume, no sparging. Thoughts?

Hello all. I have heard that bottle co2 has a bit of oxygen in it. And fermentation gas does not Does it matter? Is the amount enough such that we should choose one over the other?

Like many of us I use the fermentation co2 from the fermenting keg to purge the serving keg. But where to place the spunding valve? Photo below shows how I currently do it. The spunding valve is in the middle, after the fermentation keg and before the serving keg. So the fermenting keg...

This is a newish Brewzilla gen 4, 35 liter. This was my first stuck pump. I think the culprit was crushed grains of paradise. The black seeds are in the photos below. Doesn't matter. The pump took out most of the wort, enough so my fermantation keg is filled and going fine. But then...

While I"m not full on lodo yet, I do like the idea of keeping the atmosphere out of my beer. Hop bongs are pricey. And they don't help you introduce liquids, just hops. I ordered a keg lid with a 1.5 inch tri clover top. The idea is that I use this lid on my fermenting keg. When it...

Photo below. The you tubers just say that "it's tricky to set up the gaskets the first time, but then I figure it out" That is not helpful. I am sure the good folk here who own one, can send me something helpful. And they know exactly what I mean.

Good morning all, I ferment and dispense in corny kegs. All but one of my kegs takes a 7/8 wrench to remove the post. One keg, however, takes a 11/16 wrench. It's a small annoyance, but it is annoying to have to search around for another wrench size. I"d like to swap out posts so all my...

I have some of the standard dip tubes, picture below, and need to buy a few more. I ferment and package in corny kegs. Which is "best"? There are filter boxes to add, and FLOTit makes some nice ones, evidently. But really, is a filter necessary? My simple system seems to work. And a...

Good morning all Not saying this is preferable, but it does work well for me. Last night I set my AIO (brewzilla g 4) for an overnight full volume mash. I started a full volume mash at 150f. The Bluetooth thermometer is installed in the mash. The heater is dialed down to 30%. The...