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Funny, "we" wanted 2 kids, had twins first, she meant pregnant twice, now have 3 haha. Bummer about your complication.

After having twins (now 4 years old) and a baby boy last year, we are done. Almost 40 and we're good with 3. Glad to have gotten snipped. It sucked and at the time I thought I made a huge mistake. Even a month or so afterwards I just didn't feel right (mostly in my head). Its now been 9+ months...

A lightweight IPA with millennium, glacier, and cascade hops, Denny's Bourbon Vanilla Imperial Stout, my best yet apple cider, and WE Green Apple Riesling.

For what it's worth, I made the BierMuncher filler last weekend. Cost me nothing as I had a broken racking cane, #2 bung, and picnic tap already just sitting around. It works great for bottles and growlers while filling at 5 psi of pressure. I think the CO2 purge thing would be a minor...

Holy snikies that's awesome! I'm in. Thanks to SS Brew Tech!

Good stuff, thank you! :mug: I'll be brewing a czech pilsner soon so that should be a good test. Only thing going in the water is lactic acid.

Excellent, thank you for the responses. I remember enough chemistry from college to be dangerous and wanted to make sure there wasn't something else I should be considering/missing. I do run the water through a sediment filter.

My brewing water is a community well for a small neighborhood. I have obtained two lab reports from Ward's 8 months apart to see if the water changed. Am I correct in assuming that this water is good to go with just adding correct amounts of acid to reduce alkalinity? Would you RO filter...

I have both and prefer the single handle kegs. The black rubber rubs off and bugs me. I'll be building or buying a carboy/keg washer soon so not sure if the handle orientation will matter or not.

One thing that is bugging me is their Q&A mentions 2.5 billion cells per ml. The pure pitch package contains 35ml. So how can it be over 100 billion cells as stated on the pure pitch package? What am I missing?

You could add the 10 minute too, depends on what you want to do. Sometimes it's just experiment and see what you prefer. I've been liking 2 oz at 10 min, 3 oz at flameout for 15 min, chill to 175F, add 3 oz more for 15 min. Dry hop with 4 oz. I've not done longer stands yet but I am curious.

So many ways to add hoppy goodness to beer, this is a good read on hopstands and whirlpool additions: https://byo.com/mead/item/2808-hop-stands

I definitely want to try the cip ball in the middle of the mash. Wort will flow through a bag, just not full blast on the pump. I'm convinced even temps are dependent on how fast you can recirculate the wort.

The 3-way valve splits the wort to the whirlpool port and to the port in the lid to the cip ball at the top of the mash. The split is pretty even surprisingly. This is working really well for me so far. I can divert flow to whirlpool only for cooling, to cip spray ball only for cleaning, and to...

Yes, but the difference in temp wasn't a big deal, my ocd is though lol. I'd see 2 degree difference on the outer parts of the mash, center never really fluctuated. Now I have not seen more than 1/2 degree anywhere in mash at any time during mash. Only have 2 brews on the new setup, one...

My experience has been that if you don't recirculate then you should insulate and let it ride. I've been struggling with inconsistent temps up until recently when I started to recirculate the wort under my ss mesh basket using a whirlpool port at the same time as recirculating to the top of the...

Bohemian Pilsner - All-Grain Recipe Kit

For what its worth, I brewed a DIPA recently and was low on Caramel 40, so I tossed in a couple ounces of Caramel 120 to try give the beer some color. I got lots of berry flavor out of the beer. Can't say I'd do that again. Not saying that is/was cause but its the only time I've used C120 in an...

My wife works at Tree Top, they make Costco's Kirkland brand juice just FYI. My favorite juice to use is Tree Top Fresh Pressed 3 Apple Blend which may not be available to a lot of people.

To remove the blow off tube to use an s-type airlock during cold crashing. Suppose it isn't a necessary step and you could cold crash with the blow off tube but I don't like the fitting regardless. Just as easy to use 3/4" OD silicone hose straight in the hole. I open the lid to dry hop too...