Hey Everyone, I Bought a new brewbuilt X1 and give it a rinse with some TSP-PH to clean it of tooling oils with the CIP and then drain and rinsed 3X. that was last night and I let it dry out over night, i looked it over this morning and everything was nice and clean. today I brewed a hazy and...

i brewed 2 batches this weekend. Brew 1: 10lbs 2row 6lbs flaked wheat 3 lbs Chit .5 lb acid Brew 2: 14 lbs 2 row 3 lbs 6 row .5 acid can you guess which batch had crystal clear wort and which one was hazy? if you guessed brew 2 being the clear one you'd be wrong! both using the same brew...

Hey everyone, I tried my first batch with lunar crush. Recipe for 12 gallon batch. 20lbs 2 row .5 acid malt 90min at 149F 4oz Saaz mash hop 60 min boil 20 min 175F whirlpool 8oz Wakatu 8oz tahoma 4oz phantasm chilled to 65f and pitched 4L lunar crush starter, after about 16 hours gravity...

Anyone with experience here? is it too strongly flavoured to be used as a base malt? Thanks

Hey everyone, I brewed a lager a while back, it was unfortunately a massive underpitch. It took 2 weeks to pressure ferment then I cold crashed for 2 weeks before kegging. When it was chilled I took a few samples and sometimes notice a metallic aftertaste. Anyways when originally in the keg...

hey everyone, i am stepping up to 11 gallon batches and am getting into filtering my lagers. i just have some questions about filtered lager. im assuming the best time to filter is right after primary fermentation is done? also, what would be the difference in a filtered lager and one...

hey everyone a couple weeks back i brewed a couple batches of lager. lager 1 12lbs 2 row .25 acid OG 1056 FG 1006 lager 2 8 lbs vienna 2 lbs flaked rice 1 lb dextrose .25 lbs acid OG 1050 FG 1008 both mashed at 149F, pitched on 2 packs of 34/70, 20g of yeast nutrients, oxygenated and...

hey everyone i was thinking about drying out a lager with some corn sugar, what would be a safe rang for it as % of grain bill. thanks, -Will

Hey everyone, I don’t normally use dry yeast, I was at my LHBS and seen “dry lager yeast” on the package and interpreted a bit different. Anyways after reading up a bit it seems like this strain is a bit controversial. Xbeeriment showed it was as neutral as 34/70 however I can find numerous...

Hey everyone, I have a wort hog BIAB system and am thinking about converting it to a HERMS system on the cheap. I have a few questions on the PID temperature reading location. First of all I am being super cheap on this and am cutting some corners here that will probably ruffle some feathers...

I bought a brew system that came with 2 bins of “2 row” Any guesses on the malt? This is 12 lbs of malt x and 6 oz of acid malt It has a weird sweet tea quality. I’ve had Vienna and don’t think it’s Vienna Thanks

Hey Everyone, i brewed a lager awhile back that was 6 lbs 6 row 6 lbs 2-row ~6oz acidulated malt. while it was fermenting it had a pleasant grainy character but when it was finished it lost it so this got the ball rolling. i would like to try and amplify this and have been reading into adjuncts...

Hey everyone after struggling with my NEIPA flavour and aroma I beefed up my hop schedule and the beer is fresh, 3 days in the keg it has terrible Hop bite. Hop schedule: Flameout: 4 Oz lemon drop 165F whirlpool: 2Oz cryo citra 2oz Amarillo 2 oz taiheke day 3 dry hop 2 oz cryo citra day 7...

Hey everyone, I’ve been experimenting with NEIPAS all spring / summer and one thing I’ve constantly notice is I get the plain bubble gum note to it. At first I was convinced the kviek yeasts I have been using was the cause of this so I finally switched to London ale yeast III However last...

Hey everyone, Meant to brew a batch on Wednesday but had some emergencies come up, I filled this fermenter up during Wednesday with star San and I was about to use it but when I poured out the star san looked like I found some “friends” anyone see star san do this before? Thanks, -Will

Hey Everyone, after about 15 brews on my robobrew it looks like my 1000w element has stopped working, i am finishing up my brew and will tear it apart and see if the element is fine or not, i suspect the board is toast. should i upgrade to the 3.1 board and display or the 3.1.1? ive seen...

Hey everyone, I am going to make a NEIPA with some wyeast 1318, and was wondering if starters are necessary with this strain. OG will be 1070 and hoping to get to the low teens. Thanks

Hey Everyone, I made a brown ale and threw a maple sugar oak spiral in the keg just to see how it turns out. I drank half of the keg before adding and thought it would be a fun experiment to finish the last half. the first 10 days, the oak took over and I was getting a strong tongue depressor...

Hey Everyone, i tried another batch of NEIPA and am getting pretty disappointing results with my hop aroma / flavors. Recipe for 5 gal batch 12 lbs golden promise 2 lbs white wheat 2 lbs flaked oats 2 lbs malted oats Mashed @154F boiled for 60 minutes whirlpool at 175F for 25 minutes 4oz...

hey everyone, I only have 1 "proper" fermenter, so when i have more then one batch happening i brew my other batches in bottling buckets. i usually never take a Gravity sample because i usually give my beers a week extra time to ferment before cold crashing and never had issues. so anyways i...