So, when using a quick carb lid, I like to let the whole lid, tube, and stone sit in a bucket of star san before and after carb (before storing in my beer fridge drawer.) Twice now I've found the tubing split when I have left it in the starsan. This was an amazon product and said it had...

Just ran into this issue again and followed your advice. Adding the batch sparge of 2 gal along with 5 gal temperature resolved the issue.

Sorry for the long wait on response, haven't been brewing and just came back. I'll give it a go and see.

I have a recipe that is a 2.5 gallon BIAB with 2 gallons of water I batch sparge with. In other words, I do a 2.5 gal mash, then run up to (but usually less than) 2 gallons of water through the bag in a colander to reach my pre-boil volume. I treat 4.5 gallons of water at once. I do the same...

If you change your mash temp, the FG isn't updated until you reload the saved recipe (via url).

I am thinking of doing a hard cider and or adding fruit to NEIPA and am trying to become familiar with potassium sorbate and yeast life cycle. Specifically, I understand that potassium sorbate prevents yeast reproduction, but it will not keep yeast from fermenting. Basically, yeast can only...