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I'm wanting to get into lagers and struggling with how to manage yeast requirements. My standard scale is 17 gallons into fermenter. Focusing for now on worts in the 1.046-1.052 range. Prefer not to warm ferment or pressure ferment at this time. I'd like to use liquid yeast. Calculators...

Hoping for suggestions for diagnosing issue with stand up freezer. Pretty new unit - maybe 2 years old now, I use it as temperature control for my conical. Tried brewing with S04 recently and went out of town day after pitching yeast. I was pushing the limits on capacity, so had a blow off...

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/11/world/wari-culture-ancient-drug-beer-scn/index.html This sounds like something Dogfishhead might try to do...

Can anybody point me at a collection of Kombucha recipes similar to the recipe folders we have here in homebrewtalk? I've expanded my keezer and am thinking it should be easy enough to keep a keg of kombucha on tap. Alternatively if it sounds interesting to enough HBTers maybe we could get a...

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Hey I'm itching to buy a new piece of gear and thinking it is time to retire my old 50' copper IC. I'd like to get rid of copper as I find the LODO guys kind of persuasive enough on the issue I already got rid of the last of the copper fittings I was using upstream. I'm not interested in a...

I've been doing closed transfer kegging for a while and find a decent scale really helps. It tells me when and how fast beer is flowing into the keg (cause I brew a lot of dry hopped IPAs and flow can't be assumed) and tells me when my keg is about full. I bought this shipping scale of Amazon...

I brewed a brut IPA today and saw pH in the kettle rise from preboil to post boil. After collecting my wort I added kettle salts and some lactic acid (6ml in 20 gallon boil) and got pH of 5.17...right where I was hoping to be. Checked pH in my OG sample and I was back up to 5.33. I thought pH...

For those of you cleaning conical fermentors with CIP are you heating the water only before you start the cycle and then accepting it will cool during the cycle or are you doing something to keep the cleaner hot during the cycle? Maybe I am overthinking but 5-star mentions circulating PBW at...

I've been upgrading my homebrewing system and would like to find a new home for this gear. Included Bayou Classic 10.5 gallon stainless steel kettle with thermometer, sight glass and lid. Cooler mash tun with bazooka screen. Barley Crusher grain mill with crank and hopper High pressure LP burner...

Tried this guy for first time yesterday and it worked like a champ! So here is the problem it solved. Closed transfers have been a real PITA for me. Might be specific to my system but I find I get a decent start and then bam nothing is moving. Either the ball lock poppet or disconnect will...

I'm looking to move to fermenting in a conical and have pretty much settled on the Spike CF15. I've been considering options for temperature control and for a while was thinking an aquarium chiller might be good strategy but got talked off that ledge and back safely into the glycol camp...

So in my daydreaming about moving my process to a conical I keep thinking about temperature control. Initially was thinking to go with Spike or SS Brewtech's controller bundle and either a Penguin/SS glycol system or DIY glycol based on a window AC and cooler. Here and there I've also seen...

Hi all I'm trying to figure out how to do what is mentioned in the title. Thought maybe the math wizzes here might be getting tired of pH and spare a bit of mental capacity to help me with this problem. I am thinking about in the situation where I have a sample of commercial beer with a...

I'm considering adding a BIAB bag to my mash tun in my 3 vessel system (as a "fabric filter"). I am considering this to reduce stuck mashes, reduce grain getting under my false bottom, and to make mash tun cleanup a bit easier. I'm not interested in ditching my 3 vessel brewing system but...

I've been doing closed transfer keg filling into purged kegs in attempt to reduce oxygen exposure during packaging. Process is working but my kegging operation is slow. It is ok if I can time it to keg on brew day, it goes on on the background while I am taking care of other things. But this...

It's been a long road but I am about done with my Barley Crusher. Probably 3000-3500 pounds of grain but dang it I have to stand over it with a big plastic spoon and keep poking it to keep the rollers turning. I'm thinking monster mill cause after five or six years here I've yet to hear...

My fermenter sits too low to gravity transfer and in interest of saving my back and also reducing cold side oxygenation I've been using CO2 to push beer from fermentor to kegs. I've been using the star san purging method for the kegs and have it down pretty well. Any idea how much oxygen am I...

Anybody with a Spike V3 kettle advise on what you are using to whirlpool? How is it working out for you? I'm looking at the 20 gallon kettle and trying to figure out right attachments. I'm guessing the side pickup in bottom hole and same or the short pickup in the top hole with the...

Anybody have experience with Auber DT500? After much success controlling temperatures in my fridge based chamber with an STC 1000 I am having difficulty after switching from 6 gallon buckets/carboys to a 16 gallon plastic fermentor (Spiedel). I was reading the BrewPi and StrangeBrew sites...