Brewing With Total Confidence
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I brewed about 6 gallons of stout last weekend and plan on adding coffee and cocoa nibs to it after fermentation is complete. This is my first...
Looking for suggestions for a good 6.5-7 gallon primary fermenter. As much as I enjoy the ease of use of a bucket, i’m tired of them not sealing...
Looking for some ideas a few summer beers to brew. Kegging a blackberry and a raspberry wheat tonight so no more fruit beers. Please share some...
I've had no luck cooling off to below 75-78 degrees here in TX during the summer. I use a dual inline immersion chiller setup, the first being in...
Any thoughts on cold crashing after fruit addition? I added fruit to secondary 7 days ago, plan is to leave it on there for 10 days. Thinking...
If you are adding fruit 2/3 of the way in, I assume you are adding it to your primary, not secondary?
Thanks for the information Nosybear. One thing I forgot to add concerning the turbinado reasoning was that it would ferment and displace some of...
I have 11 gallons of wheat beer I am planning on adding fruit to (2 separate batches, 5.5 gal each), 1 with raspberries and 1 with blackberries....
I fly sparge very slowly, this last 11 gallon batch (14 gallons of wort) took about 2.5 hours of sparge time and I exceeded my preboil numbers....
I like this idea, so it's pretty much a one stop shop through fermenting and cold crash, right?
Got the blow off tubes rigged up and it's still going strong. Dropped the temp a couple of degrees, thanks everyone for the input!
I had it happen on my last batch as well and I told myself I wasn't going to let it happen again, and here we are haha.
Thanks for the information, going to see what they recommend at the LHBS, most likely a blowoff tube attached to the 3 piece like you mentioned....
Well it happened... LHBS was closed yesterday so I went to Lowe's, decided against buying anything there to make a blowoff tube since none of it...
Traveling to New York with the wife in a few months and looking for some local brewery recommendations in the Manhattan area.
Thanks for the input, won't be home for another 10 hours, hope it can hold off until then haha
I brewed 11 gallons of wheat beer (SG = 1.061) which was placed in a 6 gallon and 6.5 gallon bucket, very little headspace in either bucket. I...
Great information, much appreciated! Going to try with my current setup and stir as you said, if that doesn't work I'll consider the CFC. Thanks!
Does the counterflow chiller get the wort down to pitching temperatures after one pass? I like the idea of using this, just want to make sure it...
I have been brewing 5 gallon batches and am thinking about moving up to a 10 gallon batch this weekend. All of my equipment is capable of mashing...
