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Yeah it's a spunding valve and no I'm not worried about any back flow. Once fermentation gets to full blown activity I start increasing...

Is that a spunding valve in your blowoff line? Are you not concerned about the possibility of spooge running through it?

Yesterday I brewed an 8 gal batch of porter to split with my brew buddy. Fermenting it in a Fermzilla so 8 gallons is all I was...

The problem is that these rules of thumb vary. And they vary for a good reason, i.e. that measuring sugar by volume is not an accurate...

If true, this completely shatters my illusions of Mr. Beer as a leader in applied brewing science.

It (the phenomenon of faster reactions at higher temps) applies to chemistry in general. So it's not just staling reactions. There were...

Of course. It's an illustration of how temperature changes things relative to the assumed baseline. Pick any baseline you want and do...

The higher the temperature at which beer is stored, the faster the staling reactions, i.e. the shorter the shelf life. You can estimate...

Yes, 12 grams is too much for 1 liter, unless you are shooting for about 3.9 volumes of CO2, which is very high and potentially unsafe...

I don't usually use carboys. An exception is sours (often fruited). Presenting my new high tech puree delivery system:

12 grams of table sugar in a liter of beer? If so, you're looking at about 3.9 volumes of CO2. That's very high. I'd be very careful...

It's normal for plastic bottles to expand a bit when the beer (or cider or whatever) carbonates. Did you practice good sanitation and...

Speaking of foam, I thought I knew pretty much everything about it (yeah, right). I even plunked down big bucks for Bamforth's rather...

I recommend not limiting the faucet to only Czech lagers. I use mine for pretty much any lager. And Altbier, etc. It's nice to be...

Perfect! I have one on the way. I’m a big fan of Czech lagers but I don’t brew them because they are always so much better when served...