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To expand on this... Even if you brewed to a certain style, you don't have to enter it under that style. Always taste the beer and compare it to the style guidelines to see where you think it fits best. Or better yet, if you can afford it and the competition has space, enter the same beer in...

Sounds like you already got your issue sorted out, but for anyone else who reads this thread, Goo Gone is designed specifically to remove sticky residue. It's fairly oily so you'll still want to go over it with your cleaner of choice after the sticky stuff is gone. As long as you're using it on...

If you got sufficient growth with the starter, 2 days in the fridge won't make a difference.

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For my last 2 batches I used A38 juice and I saw krausen similar to your pictures. The first was a 1.060ish NEIPA with a large dry hop that was about the same as what you show. Kinda thick and sponge-like after fermentation was complete. The second batch (which I just cold crashed today, 11 days...

I'm down in Tucson and our club (Tucson Homebrew Club) is pretty active locally, but the official website doesn't get updated very often so if you were basing off just that, I understand the impression that you get from other clubs' websites. Over the past couple years most activity has moved to...

I've never used that specific brand of flavor extracts, but I have used flavor extracts a couple times. Since they're so potent, it's very easy to go overboard and ruin your beer. From the link you posted it looks like their TTB approved extracts recommend the equivalent of 1 oz (roughly, but it...

As long as you're using roasted beans, it gives smooth roasty, chocolatey coffee flavor and aroma that you would get in a cup of coffee. No idea what you'd get if you used green coffee beans. Sounds like a neat experiment though!

+1 for the Huss whole bean method. I visited their brewery a few years ago and learned about that beer and inspired me to do something similar. Here is my recipe for reference. I've made it several times and it's always a huge hit. I've been using the Golden Naked Oats instead of rolled oats...

Well first things first: SMaSH is not a style of beer. It's a method of simplified brewing, but can be used to make many different styles of beer (pilsner, blonde, APA, IPA, saison, bitter, barleywine, etc.). So you have to decide what style of beer you want to make. Based on the ingredients it...

The Hydra has a ton of restriction splitting to the 3 parallel lines, so make sure the pump has enough head pressure to push water at a decent rate through the coils. I live in a warm climate, so my situation is very different from yours. But I had one of the small ~360 gph pumps that couldn't...

Gravity does nothing but bring you down, man.

I found that my max in a 10 gallon round cooler with a bazooka tube was 24lbs with a mash thickness of 1.25-1.3.

Modern Times only does bombers and 16oz cans. I agree that they're one of the best in SD, and I'm very happy they recently started distributing to southern AZ. Even if you don't take any beer to go, for sure check out the Lomaland Fermentorium. Everything they make is excellent and they even...

I initially had a braided stainless mesh filter in my round cooler mash tun without any sort of anti-crush mechanism and I didn't have much problem draining at the end of the mash. The bigger issue was the braid coming up off the bottom of the cooler due to stirring. I eventually went to a...

The latch/handle on the lid. When I'm cleaning my kegs, they go through the wash and rinse process, then when I'm reassembling the keg, I'll lube the o-rings and dunk everything in sanitizer. Like jleiii said, keg lube is not water soluble so it will not come off without a scrub or extended...

60 isn't all that low, depending on the temp of your yeast when you pitch. If you can get the yeast to 60, just pitch it and let it free rise to your intended fermentation temperature.

In short, no, you don't need an additional HLT. You said yourself that you're able to brew just fine without it. And I would argue that your 5 gallon kettle is technically the HLT. Now that being said, an additional cooler might make things easier allow you to shuffle around your process to be...

I ripped them off all my ball valves. They don't seem like a good idea for hot applications, and like you said the valves don't open or close on their own.