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Has anyone any experience fermenting in one of these? I'm worried that it says it's a 1/2 bbl fermenter (15.5 gal) but its capacity is 17 gal. You get like 1.5 gals more of capacity or so with the domed lid, unless u want to use the coil chiller for temp control which leaves you with a flat lid...

Great. Thank you! Yes, I meant OG hehe. Had a bit too many homebrews :bott:.

So I'm preparing to brew an imperial stout. This is the second time i'll brew this recipe. I wanted to conduct a long two hour boil this time instead of the standard 1 hour. If I want to end up with the same amount of wort in my fermentor, obviously i'll have to have about a gallon more of pre...

I've only been to the ones in Fairfax and... Arlington? If I remember correctly.

I was there in summer 2018 for a conference at george mason university. If I go back i'll let you know!

Maybe next time I go to the US I can mail you a couple of beers and get your feedback! Lets keep in touch! Well, idk if mailing homebrew is legal in the US LOL. But if it is, we could do that!!

Dried yeast, that's all you can find and mostly fermentis. A few other brands now and then, but 90% of the time suppliers only carry fermentis yeast. I've really never used liquid yeast!

Most big mexican beer are lagers, yes. Even tho they have acquired a couple of craft breweries in the last couple years. The craft beer scene has lots of good stuff tho, really good! Specially breweries from north western Mx as they have a strong influence from San Diego. If you come across some...

Almost a year ago. The raspberry weizen was done by request of my wife, by the way, but as it turns out i might end up drinking most of it :)... In my top three of the beers i've brewed since I started with this hobby.

What a shame... And I also wish I lived closer to people in this forum. Where I live, the homebrewing community is really small, northern Mexico, so people to share bottles with and supplies even are very limited.

Bottled it. And I agree, it is strong! I used about 2 pounds for a 5 gal batch, and I think that was just about the right amount. It's pure raspberry to the nose, with some estery notes subtly showing up. To the taste, it's the other way around, a weizen with hints of raspberry. I like it.

Thank you for your insights! I'm gonna read a bit into your suggestions and try to adjust my recipe!

No, it was the other way around. And some brewers have made the same comment without me having to tell them anything about the FG. However, I have to admit that in my mind body and residual sweetness go pretty much hand in hand, so maybe a more precise way to put it is that i'd like a tiny bit...

Update, yall! Second try on this brew. This time it turned out amazing!!! The only thing i would change is that it dried A LOT!!! (fg 1.009) Used Safale wb-06, and I was just reading that its diastatic, which explains the dryness... Any yeast suggestions to fix this?? I love the esters wb-06...

Unfortunately where I live room temperature is 100 F+. Its not that expensive energywise anyway. The chamber usually runs for 2-3 45 min long heating-cooling cycles and then stabilizes for ~20 hours. Its really cool! And about space, my chamber fits two fermentors, and so far what Ive been...

Thanks!!! Thats what I thought, but wanted to get input from people more knowledgable than me.

Hello, everyone. I finally arrived at a temperature control set up that exponentially improved my brews. I have a thermowell in my fermentor inside of a chest freezer with a fermwrap on one of the walls of the freezer. This has worked incredibly well. I'm using an inkbird wifi to control...

What do you think of everything going into a nylon mesh bag and then throwing the bag into the fermentor? Do you think that would work and also reduce the amount of lost beer?

Looks amazing!!! I'm gonna re-do my raspberry wheat this saturday. Gonna follow your steps when it's time for the fruit additions. Do you drain the raspberries after the pectic enzyme rest? Or throw all the water and the raspberries into the fermentor? Cheers!

Im always paranoid there're sneaky bugs hidden in there.