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    Cold Crashing

    The thing I'm curious about is whether cold crashing is simply to keep things from settling in the bottom of the keg. I don't have enough room in the kegerator to cold crash carboys, and kegs won't stay sealed since the beer will suck in all of the co2. Does cold crashing need to occur before...
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    Alkalinity and Lactic Acid

    My water report is as follows, pH 7.4 Ca 30 Mg 10 Na 7 Cl 5 SO4-S 3, so 9 SO4 Bicarbonate 148 Alkalinity 122 My next planned brew is Biermunchers Centennial Blonde, which is a pretty light beer, beersmith says 3.6 SRM. I've been reading Ajdelange's posts here and it seems that he would tell me...
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    washed yeast starters

    looking at the mrmalty pitching from slurry calculator, it seems that a half cup of washed fairly pure yeast is more than enough to pitch into most any beer. I set the concentration to 4 and the non-yeast percentage to 4 and the viability to 80%. If I'm calculating correctly, it looks like with...
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    noob water questions

    So I just got my water report back from Ward Labs, and I figured I would post it up here to see if anyone notices anything horribly wrong with it. pH 7.4 Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) Est 171 Electrical Conductivity, mmho/cm 0.28 Cations / Anions, me/L 2.9 / 2.8 Sodium, Na 7 Potassium...
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