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  1. gregkeller

    Dry Hopping Using Micron Mesh Cartridge

    What is the highest amount of hops you will put into each?
  2. gregkeller

    is a full body always sweet?

    Lots of good ways above to create mouthfeel/body in a beer. Ingredients/mash temp/yeast selection are the three places where you can change mouthfeel of the beer. If you want it to be "full" but not sweet, then I wouldn't change the yeast for a less attenuative strain. If you go with wlp002...
  3. gregkeller

    Dry Hopping Using Micron Mesh Cartridge

    Is it always taking away that much aroma? Like was mentioned, use 6 oz to get the equivalent of 5 oz of dry hop, if I use 4, do I only get the same perceived as 3 oz? 2 oz of use for 1 oz equivalent? Just wondering if there is a "break even" point where there is little to no perceptible...
  4. gregkeller

    What to do with spent grains?

    I tried making dog biscuits. The dog was ok with them, but they used such little spent grain that it just wasn't worth my time and effort in trying to reduce how much grain I was throwing out. Literally is one of my least favorite parts of brewing, trying to get a 10 gallon batch of hot/wet...
  5. gregkeller

    Dry Hopping Using Micron Mesh Cartridge

    I've never used this product, but do use something similar for holding hops during boiling. I do not find that it cuts down on hop flavor/aroma, but I got a massive screen, I think 10 inches in diameter and the full height of my 15 gallon kettle. I think that in something that size you showed...
  6. gregkeller

    Any way for homebrewers to get their hands on bsi brett drei?

    Yeah I've been happy with all my 644 beers that I've done. Just wanted to play around with this strain that seems to be kind of elusive on the homebrew front. I understand that 3 fonteinen is going to have a mixed culture. The brett drie that BSI sells was a single strain isolated from this...
  7. gregkeller

    Any way for homebrewers to get their hands on bsi brett drei?

    So, back before wlp644 was outed as a sach strain, I had done a little bit of playing around with it and thought it was ok. I had always thought it was this elusive strain of brett that had been isolated from Drie Fontainin. Is seems like BSI is the only yeast company that is selling this...
  8. gregkeller

    Overbuilding yeast starters vs top cropping

    I think I remember reading something (maybe in the "Yeast" book) that doing a starter, letting the yeast finish, and then drop out (cold crash) allows the yeast to sort of "top up" their reserves and go into hibernation in your fridge for a longer period of time. When you top crop you are...
  9. gregkeller

    Overbuilding yeast starters vs top cropping

    What about just collecting something from your second runnings when the gravity is around the 1.040 range?
  10. gregkeller

    Overbuilding yeast starters vs top cropping

    What about making some extra wort when brewing, then run it off into a pot that you can quick boil while you are brewing, toss it in the fridge to cool and then when you pitch into your finished batch, you decant a few of the mL's into your starter and grow that up. Doesn't have to be much...
  11. gregkeller

    None, Zero, Zip experience with raspberry pi, etc. Help me :)

    Just came across that after I posted my question :) Seems like a pretty good option with lots of flexibility.
  12. gregkeller

    None, Zero, Zip experience with raspberry pi, etc. Help me :)

    So I'm in the earlyish phases of planning my electric brewery. I've got most of the parts for my control panel and started to see stuff for raspberry pi's that intreagued me. I had planned on going with PID's, and most likely still will, but I've got a question. Is there anything that a...
  13. gregkeller

    Brewing lighter ABV versions without compromising flavor?

    I agree in theory to the idea that you need to lower all the grains by the same percent to keep the beer the same, but in practice, I find that I don't get that. I've found that I have to work harder to keep flavor and mouthfeel the same in low abv beers (even dropping an 8% beer to 6%). I...
  14. gregkeller

    Question about main panel/spa panel setup

    do 30 amp spa panels exist? killing two birds with one stone right? Nevermind, just had a brain fart realizing i've already got the spa panel in place. I was more thinking for when I move the brewery indoors once I can talk my wife into that.
  15. gregkeller

    Question about main panel/spa panel setup

    The line from the breaker to the spa panel is already in place. I’ll just be installing a line from the spa panel to a plug that my panel will attach to. I’ll use the wire that I kept after I removed the hot tub for that.
  16. gregkeller

    Brewing lighter ABV versions without compromising flavor?

    I have found that when trying to make a beer more sessionable, I need to keep the non-base grains pretty much the same. I think of those as my "flavor" ingredients and I don't want less flavor in the beer, just less alcohol. So I will usually start by dropping just the base grain to get the...
  17. gregkeller

    Question about main panel/spa panel setup

    So I'm slowly working on the conversion to electric. I am going to build my full eherms panel here in the next few weeks after I get the last few odds and ends, then electrify my HLT, put a herms coil in it, and finally electrify the boil kettle. My goal is to build it up one piece at a time...
  18. gregkeller

    Adding "wort out" temp to panel

    I really need to learn about programming and stuff. I know absolutely nothing about that stuff. I feel like if I knew how to understand all the raspberry pi, arduino, etc stuff I could set up a panel that could handle everything from brew day to fermentation go controlling my serving keg. But I...
  19. gregkeller

    Adding "wort out" temp to panel

    If I really wanna go nuts, I could also use the same thing to show mash temp at two spots. My tun has a thermowell about 1/2 way up the kettle that sticks 3-4 inches into the mash. I could run one probe there and the other at the wort output to see if those two numbers jive. Probably only...
  20. gregkeller

    Adding "wort out" temp to panel

    So, I needed to order a mash tun pid anyway, so instead of getting a PID, I got one of those auber dual temperature displays. One display will show mash temp and the other is going to show wort output. I'm only using the mash temp probe to monitor things and make sure that during the mash the...
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