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Thanks! Looks like this is the one, unless anyone else has cheaper sources.

Been a number of years since I posted here (or brewed for that matter). I'm wanting to take my single tier system from propane to natural gas. I have a 1/2 ball valve ready for me to use on the back patio, so I need a hose and some QD fittings. This stuff is crazy expensive for what it...

Read post #9. That info came from Danstar. They know a thing or two about dry yeast.

It didn't last too long. We finished it off pretty quickly. I didn't notice any "bad" flavors, but I do think I ended up with two different beers. Not by much, and not in a bad way, but they were just a little different. I wouldn't call one half better than the other. I suspect that if it...

That's similar to what I was doing, except I recirculated ice water through the immersion chiller once I got the temp down some with tap water. I've always been concerned about cleaning a plate chiller and getting it clogged up with hop pellets. I know people say this really isn't a problem...

Well, I took a bit of time off of homebrewing, and I left my copper wort chiller outside with water in it. Apparently, last winter it froze. There were four places that had ruptures, so I cut those out and was planning on soldering it back together again. It's in several pieces now. This...

Not going to be able to do a real side by side test until it's chilled and carbed. I'll do that this weekend. Didn't notice any apple or rust flavors.

Finally got around to testing the O2 +AE batch again. Gravity was 1.010. Perfect. The taste? Fantastic. I can't taste any cardboard or other off flavors. I actually think it's better than the other one. I'm guessing since it had some more conditioning time vs the AE only batch which...

Maybe run ldconfig?

Actually, adjusted for temp, the FG is closer to 1.010. That's exactly what I was shooting for.

That's a great idea.

Looks like I've stopped at 1.009! Sample tastes good. It's getting kegged tomorrow. I'll have to wait a few more days for the half I oxygenated. I did taste a sample of that one, and couldn't tell much difference between the two. It's hard to tell since it's a few days behind the other. At...

Well, that is what I want to find out. If it is oxidized pretty bad, I'll at least have a good reference point for what oxidized beer tastes like. I've never had any oxidized that I know of, even though I've made every mistake known to brewers over the years. The latter is what makes me...

I suppose you could stop it that way, but I'm just going to ride it out until it stops dropping, which I think it pretty much already has. I just got the AE from the LHBS. One teaspoon per 5 gallons.

Keg.

Looks like fermentation is about wrapped up on the AE carboy. The gravity is reading at about 1.011. I'm thinking it will probably end up near 1.008 or 1.009. Added AE to the carboy that I oxygenated. Interestingly, the samples tasted thinner when the beer was at 1.020.

OK. I'm going to call this my fault. The yeast is very alive and active after adding some amylase. My mash temps have to be at fault.

The O2 half still shows no activity. I'm going to say that O2 was ineffective at restarting this fermentation. I guess I'm convinced that I've got a mash temperature problem. This was only the second time brewing with this mash tun, so it looks like I've got some tuning to do. If the AE half...

I'd read that amylase takes a while to work, but I sure did get a lot of activity pretty quickly. I've been reading some posts here from those who have used amylase and it seems like nobody's getting lower gravities than they wanted (unlike beano). It appears that amylase is a pretty selective...

Any way you can get a sample to someone knowledgeable about beer flavors? What tastes to you like cardboard may be described as something else by another person.