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  1. thorn_bird

    Bottle taste vs. Keg taste

    Hi all, I've noticed something on my bottled beers over the years that drives me nuts and I'm ready to figure this out. I do well at competitions, and I feel all of my practices are solid, but I notice that whenever I bottle for competition, the beers taste more bitter to me than in the keg...
  2. thorn_bird

    Sparging with distilled in Bru'n Water...

    In the older version I had, I was able to put the entire preboil volume under "Mash" on the Water Adjustment page and then put my actual mash volume under a "Mash Water Volume" box giving me the correct Water to grist ratio... I typically calculated the total amount of each mineral and then...
  3. thorn_bird

    Acid addition question...

    Recently listening to Palmer about water. He says when building from distilled you can add salts at mash for mash volume of water, skip the sparge addition, and add the rest to the kettle (total boil volume minus mash volume)... My question.. If I add lactic acid to dial in a mash pH of 5.2...
  4. thorn_bird

    1st BJCP competition question

    So, I have a strong saison that I'm entering in a competition under the 2008 guidelines...because of the abv I am required to enter it as a strong saison in the belgian specialty category. My question is that because you are required to explain your beer a bit in this category, is it within...
  5. thorn_bird

    Lagunitas One Hitter Series Clones...

    Hey guys and gals, So I have a deep love for 2 beers from Lagunitas's One Hitter Series this year. The Waldos' 420 Special Ale and CitruSinensis Pale Ale.... I would absolutely love to try and clone these beers and can't seem to find a whole lot of info on them. I guess my question is, does...
  6. thorn_bird

    CPVC Manifold Questions

    So I built my CPVC octagonal manifold today and I have a few questions. I am reading Dave Miller's Brew Like A Pro at the moment in which he states that he has tried both ways and consistently gets better results with slots up despite popular opinion. Most on here say slots down but I did...
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