Practice with tea. Rose tea (black tea with rose buds, I think) is really good. You could try different strengths to get a feel for how much to use. I've always thought that this would be a good addition to a saison. What type of beer are you making?

is the hop spder inside or outside the bag of grains?

I believe that they are working on this. I've had some off line discussions where the problem was recognized. You have to make the adjustments in the recipe itself for each hop addition.

My hops from last year are between 6 & 8' tall. The new one is about 3' tall. Looks like my hop arbor isn't tall enough... Forgot the picture the first time....

My brew days are very relaxed. I can prep the night before while watching the tube and finish the clean up the day after..... While watching the tube

My recent efforts all target reducing the effort of brewing. My top improvement are: - Setting up a dedicated brew space. What used to be 20 ish trips between the basement and the garage is now 2 or so trips to the basement. - Switched to electric. No more chasing propane or hoses. - Set up...

I picked up a Harbor freight weld blanket for my gas set up and then switched to electric. Now my wife is going to make me a brew quilt

I'm trying to not touch the vessel and just go through the cap. But......

No kidding. I want to use what I got but that's interesting

Top ports are 1/2" npt. Bottom is flat. I'm working on how I want to port it. I need to cut of the 3/4" OD dip tube and find a way to adapt a a floaty sucky thingy......

A new soon to be fermenter. Unfortunately it was suppose to be 7.5 gallons but it ended up 6.28 gallons. I think it will work. It came with a blanking plate and a plate with a dip tube and pressure port. I got it off of market place. It came, unused, from a closed CBD facility.

I knew the answer but it turns out the program isn't doing what it is supposed to. In the equipment profile the utilization adjustment isn't overriding the elevation adjustment. They are looking into it. The recipe adjustment works in the mean time

Yes but.... On my electric kettle it goes so fast I can't keep up with the other stuff I need to do. So it isn't a big deal relatively.

A buddy of mine that brews at the same elevation (or higher) than me hates hoppy beers, doesn't adjust for elevation, and loves his beer.......

Very discernable. Before I found out about the issue I couldn't make a decent IPA. Not even close. In a discussion, on hops, with a local brew master he asked if I adjusted for elevation. My answer was "WHAT". It turns out that at my elevation I have to add 33% additional hops to account for...

I have to get back and play with this more. However I changed the utilization to 65% from the altitude adjusted 84%. There was no change to the recipe or IBUs calculated. With 5 different utilizations that can be changed I may not understand the process. But changing the boil utilization or the...

I made three boring ass IPAs before I realized what was wrong.

Ok, I'm going to have to play with this, I cant generate an effect. If the listed elevation correction is accurate (84%) then adjusting the factor to 67% should change the IBU's. No joy, at least not yet. I may be applying it wrong but I'll spend some time with it before I raise a red flag

Holy crap did I miss that... thank you

That's one of the links I've saved. The issue is how to make the adjustment in brewers friend. Their adjustment shows 84% utilization vs 67% utilization in other programs