You might be able to reduce the DMS if you use a darker DME (or darker malt if doing an all-grain batch of starters). Based on my googling, pilsner malt can have 8x the DMS potential as darker malts, even pale malt. Apparently, the kilning process helps reduce DMS. Learned a lot here.
Yes it is. It looks like we live across the country from each other, but if you are interested, I could do a zoom or facetime walkthrough. I'm also researching freight shipping options.
The brewer's friend website states that efficiency for extract recipes only applies to the steeping grains and that 25% is a good place to start. Otherwise, the losses that relate to brewhouse efficiency are not linear so you wouldn't want to use that variable as a percentage for scaling a...
I've been brewing off and on since I convinced my dad to show me how when I was 19 (so 19 years ago). He started in the late 80s! I'm now setting up a dedicated brewery space and looking to build/assemble Kal's Electric Brewery. Selling my Brau Supply brew-in-a-conical system to upsize. Looking...
Things that can impact blow-off:
1. Inadequate head space: If the there isn't room for krausen formation between the beer and the top of the fermentor, it will come out of the airlock.
2. Fermentation is too vigorous: Very high gravity beers or too high of a fermentation temperature will create...
Mash, boil and ferment all in one compact vessel!
This 6-gallon batch size electric homebrew system uses the "brew-in-a-conical" ("BIAC") technique to allow all-grain brewing in a single compact vessel. While the mash and lauter steps are similar to a kettle-RIMS (K-RIMS) technique, the BIAC...