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So i just drew another sample, and it tastes like cold coffee that been sitting out, maybe a hint of chocolate after tones, but not alchoholy by many means. Do you think the coffee flavor will mellow out? would oak chips help at all? another poster suggested amylase.. would that do the same...

Yeah, i have the O2 diffuser stone and O2 bottle and it was sitting in the Star san right next to me while i was pitching yeast and closing up the fermenter didn't realize till i was cleaning up. i did have oxygen in the yeast it self, i put some cooled wort in the erlmyer flask with my starter...

Yep, that calculator is what promoted me to start this thread because 5.64 just didn't make sense. I had a normal Mash (i think) strike temp @ 164, mash in at 155 W/ 11.25Gal for 45 mins then mashed out at 168 with re-circ (20 min rise), fly sparged w/ 6.4 gal @ 171 (15 min transfer), 60 min...

Excuse my inexperience but what is the adjunct? I mashed in at 155 for 45 mins, then mashed out, kicked on the heat and the recirc and slowly raised the temp to 168 prior to sparge, took 20 mins to hit 168 where i started fly sparge and transfer. Sparge was at 171, mash temp stayed at 168...

Your right, for my first stout probably should have done something much simpler... i just love that beer so much i wanted to make it!:p With the Refrac and hydrometer, idk i bought the refracometer because i thought it would be simpler than a hydrometer, didn't really know i had to do...

Thanks for the response, I plan on Kegging, putting some pressure on the keg and letting it condition for a month or so... the sample is strange i taste a lot of the coffee and it has a little tang to the tounge, i don't know if its from too much coffee flavor or something, but it has pleasant...

(Sorry originally posted this in the wrong section) Breakfast stout clone (5th beer brewed) need some help! recipe: 10Gal AG 27lb Golden promise 3lb flaked oat 2lb Choco breiss 2lb Roasted barley 1lb Carafa III 1lb 120L Carmal malt 2OZ Nugget @60 2oz fuggle @30 1/4 bar unsweetened...

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well been drinking the beer, has great flavor, bitter but is a little bit sweet, not what i expected due to the F up in the mash but still very good (well its my first beer i made so i guess i'm bias LOL) the full leaf dry hop with simcoe saved the day i think... very very cloudy though i'm...

Do you think the regular TSP would work just the same? I've only seen it used in high oxygen breathing systems, don't know if its safe for use in "human consumption" systems.

Yeah, i was setting up my system and found a good deal on two conicals 12 1/2 gal fermenters. I'm active duty and move around a lot, so with a 10 gal AG system i can to in those 2 fermenters that i would need at least 6 carboys, and don't have to deal with them breaking in the move. All i have...

Sorry for the same reply still trying to figure out this app. Lol

TPS-PF? Is that completely different than TSP? I'm in the military and we use TSP (tri sodium phosphate) to clean fine carbons and oils out of oxygen use components but I never thought of using it in a brewery... Is it the same thing?

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TPS-PF? Is that completely different than TSP? I'm in the military and we use TSP (tri sodium phosphate) to clean fine carbons and oils out of oxygen use components but I never thought of using it in a brewery... Is it the same thing?

The strike temp was at 165, the temp dropped to 152 after mash in for 5 or so mins then dropped to 135... I turned the burner on to bring it back up, when I FINALLY double checked with my turkey thermometer 3-5 mins later the temp was at 175 ( gage on my mash tun was at 140) ... I killed the...

Well i racked the beer, tasted good (from the hydrometer vial) real citrusy from my simcoe dry hops, and the black ring came off very easy with the PBW. My FG came in higher than expected at 1.022 with the OG at 1.058 (was expecting a 1012 so my question for you is Do you think the raise of...

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I didn't use Fermcap, haven't tried that yet. My fermenter is a custom job i found on E-Bay, its 12 1/2 Gallon, i haven't marked the 10 gallon spot yet, I pitched 2 smack packs of 1157 cali ale yeast, and use a hose to a bucket of water... I was expecting blow out in the bucket but didn't get...