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    Five Star Beer stone remover

    Does anyone know if beer stone remover is safe to use on electronic etching? Which acids is it made of?
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    Mold in Sanitizer

    All these comments involving star San don’t apply to easy clean I believe. It isn’t an acid sanitizer and doesn’t work the same. So simply looking for a pH below 3 doesn’t apply. I can’t be any more help then that because I have only ever seen easy clean in a beginner beer startup kit and didn’t...
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    Spike Solo Owner's Thread

    What length auto sparge rod is that?
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    Dunkles Weissbier Weihenstephaner Dunkel Clone

    McTarnamins, what temp did you ferment this at? I know jamil suggests fermenting this yeast at around 62. Is that where you went with it or did you go with old wisdom of hotter for hefe yeasts?
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    Tower question

    Top comes off. But you could always buy a ball lock connector and cut the sanke one you have off and replace it
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    Immersion chiller discoloration

    The acidic wort dissolves the copper oxides that form naturally which is the darker colored stuff. So not a big problem however if your chiller is really discolored it could be leaching too much of bad oxides into your beer. Some being dissolved isn't a big deal. A quick way to clean it is to...
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    Using Coco, Vanilla & Lactose

    I use beans and nibs however I soak in everclear first. I just threw in coco nibs once and it infected my milk stout. So now essentially make an extract first and throw it all in.
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    Issues with thermostat in keg conversion from a newbie

    It's not hard. You can look up threads here. If you don't have any wiring experience or tools you may need to buy/barrow them. It's not too bad though. I have never wired anything and I did it just fine.
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    Issues with thermostat in keg conversion from a newbie

    Since then however I have upgraded to a stc-1000 controller.
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    Issues with thermostat in keg conversion from a newbie

    I think it's probably because the temp sensor is used to measuring the freezer temp and now your trying to control a fridge temp. If you put the sensor right up again the coil then it could help. It did with mine at least
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    Smoldering earth ipa

    So no ideas? I'm gonna brew tomorrow. I have high hopes
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    English Barleywine Fireside Barleywine

    You could of added some dme to bring it up but I wouldn't recommend doing it now. But if you had done it at high Krausen that would of worked.
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    Smoldering earth ipa

    Also thinking about oaking half the batch. Any opinions?
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    Smoldering earth ipa

    5 gallon batch: 10 lbs beechwood smoked malt 2 lbs crisp pale ale malt 2 lbs carafa II 1.5 oz nugget fwh 2 oz willamette 20 min/5 min/0 min Dry English ale yeast
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    Smoldering earth ipa

    So I am brewing a batch of beer for a friend and he wants something like an earthy smoked black IPA. So here is what I'm going to do I think. Let me know what you guys think. And what flavors you think I will get and how you get earthy smoked BIPA flavors
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