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I have been brewing hazy IPAs only for about the last 8 months, but have noticed a repeated issue and am curious if others have run into the same thing. I bought an Anton Paar SmartRef - which I have been mostly happy with - except that I have found it to be unreliable when measuring the gravity...

I'm not sure that the above is best described as "evolutionary chance." But perhaps it could be both - if there are 3 strains present in measured samples (current), that doesn't necessarily mean that they were initially pitched at the same time (age in generations of harvest), or in the same...

I would assume Verdant would also call their house yeast "a blend" - the use of that term doesn't indicate that the strains were intentionally mixed in known proportions. I believe Nate states somewhere that their "blend" is unique and unable to be replicated - to me, that echoes of a natural...

Maybe this info will alter the direction of this discussion: In this video, The Craft Beer Channel is interviewing the head brewer at Verdant (James) and asks him specifically about their house yeast "strain" - part of which is now being distributed by Lallemand. James explains that they simply...

Has anyone ever had success converting only the refrigerator half of a side-by-side fridge/freezer unit into a kegerator? I believe you would have to control the small damper shown in the attached picture - I would like to continue to utilize the freezer for hop storage, but control the airflow...

Right - I only ask because the manual doesn't make it sound like a global variable; the documentation seems to imply that it is explicitly for ramp steps only.

Bobby - does mOut vary the element power only during ramps between mash steps? Or does it also vary element power while maintaining a set temp during a step in a program?

Did you ever figure out what was causing the dry mouthfeel?

Did you ever figure this out? I went with a basket purchased from Amazon and then drilled through the feet and added stainless flat-head machine screws with jam nuts to get the height that I wanted.

OP, were you ever able to sort this out? I just started recapturing CO2 during fermentation and noticed that my samples straight out of the fermenter have been amazing, but are somewhat muted in the keg - even using closed pressure transfers.

Life got in the way of my hobby - I built a nice eBIAB setup about 5 years ago, and only made two batches on it before buying a house. Enough said... I did get the system "set up" in my garage about two years ago, and brought a "batch" of water up to temp before flushing out all my hoses and...

It's hard to get a picture of what I am describing. I am actually going to rebrew this. I am going to remove the Munich and the flaked rye, and mash 2 degrees higher. I wonder if there is just a little too many grains that muddy the flavor. Maybe I will alter the roasted grains as well.

Hi, I'm looking for some feedback on a stout I tried to formulate. I tried to make it full-bodied, which was successful, but this is the second stout I have brewed that ends up being a little too "brown", both in color and in flavor. I feel like this brew is very chocolatey, with maybe a little...

Pardon me asking, but why is bad to have an unknown pressure drop? The hose is certainly fine seeing an increase in pressure.

The 80/20 legs are 26". After adding leveling feet and the wood top, the kettle sits about 28" off the floor.

I made the stand such that the legs ran from the floor directly to the underside of the wooden top. Extrusion is made such that you can tap screw threads into the ends. I just drilled 4 holes in the wood, countersunk them, and used 5/16"-18 stainless flat-head screws to connect them into the...

In my defense, I did say that. 1% for a 3.5gal boil 10% or maybe slightly less for a 5.5gal boil

It indeed is possible. If I have a 5-6gal boil, I can maintain a rolling boil with only one element on at 10-12% That doesn't mean that I don't need more power to get it to a boil, but it doesn't take much to maintain it.

I had a 3.5gal boil going the other day using this, and it totally reduced the amount of heat I needed to maintain a boil. I have 2ea 1500W elements, and even with one turned off, I was able to maintain a boil with the EZBoil set to 1% power in boil mode.

What kind of boil-off rates are people typically seeing with this thing? FWIW, I just started using the Steam Slayer from Bobby at Brew Hardware. I believe I have the 9gph nozzle, but I throttle the flow rate way back because of the water pressure I am seeing.