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Cool. I’m just going to let the hops ride then rather than try to fish them out.

I brewed 4 gallon hazy IPA. I used fermentation co2 to purge the keg. Then did a closed transfer to the keg when I was 3 gravity points from FG (tilt hydrometer) about 3 days after fermentation started. I had a hop cage at bottom of keg for the first set of dry hops. I had a second set of dry...

I brew both kombucha and beer. Well I think I finally had some cross contamination. Not sure the exact cause as I have separate fermenters and cleaned the beer fermenter with bleach just in case. I did have my covered, partly full kombucha fermenter next to it though in the same room, but not...

i will not be shopping there anymore it if principle. They fired everyone without notice.

Yes. Apparently the Michigan stores are closed permanently. Bummer. I used to live near the Taylor store and would frequent their store around 2005. I don’t think they had been open very long when i started going. I’d go in there and have conversations with the owners.

I’m sure someone more in the know will reply but I heard from a friend in Ann Arbor that they were recently sold and they fired everyone who worked at stores in Taylor and Ann Arbor on short notice. Every thing is now being routed through some place in another state (i thought they said MN)? He...

awesome, thanks!

Oh and one the last “new” methods i had started doing (the last time I was brewing) was transferring the beer (closed loop) to the keg when I’m 4 points from FG and having it self carbonate with a spunding valve. It usually only took 1-2 days for it to get to the point where i transferred to the...

Haha. Oh man, that had to have sucked so bad cleaning up. Thanks for that. Man… actually, i too have had a poppet stick and leak all over. It was in my standup fridge kegerator. I forget why i took the QD out line off… maybe to hook another keg up? Mine leaked out of the Fridge a little, but...

Hahaha. Yes, i have enough 2 row and crystal 10L for a light ale i like to make. Just need the flaked rice. Good tip- i think i do rememebr reading that one here back when i was brewing more often. I’ll cancel my Amazon order. So if a recipe calls for 1 lb flaked rice is that 1 pound before...

yeah… i have learned this over the years, so you think I’d know better. I have had a few times (with brewing and other stuff) where ii put something in a bag and think to myself “oh yeah I’ll remember what’s in here” … few months or a year goes by and i have no idea what’s in the bag. I’m not...

This is definitely one of my biggest brew screw ups. Up there with the time I had a full glass carboy break on me (thankfully in my garage and no injury) and the time i had 7 gallons of purchased distilled water leak in my trunk (containers tipped over and lids were old and wore out and not leak...

No, maybe the smell was about normal for 10 lbs of hot, wet flaked rice??? Lol. It just didn’t smell right. It was about a year old looking at my email order history, but i kept it sealed away. You would have thought i would have noticed it was all flaked rice when i grabbed the bag out for the...

omg. It’s rice. I just went to check what i thought was my flaked rice bag (one other thing i had bulk of) and found my crystal 10 in the bag labeled flaked rice. Man i really screwed up my labeling. Im an idiot. Didn’t look at the bags that closely and threw everything in the wrong bags.

These are the “grains” after dumping in my composter. They don’t even look right. CaCl2 was right- it has that characteristic small pellet look. My gypsum is in a big ziplock bag (have way to much). I kee my calcium hydroxide in another part of the house (don’t use it anymore). NaCl has a...

Present in my kettle after the mash. Had sat for a couple hours. I was debating on whether to proceed with the boil.

The Brewfather app was telling me 5.5 ml lactic acid. I had compared it with bru’n water excel sheet (back when i was brewing more often) and it always was pretty close to the same results. I have RO, so i build the profile back up from that. I have made this beer 3-4 times with this same recipe...

154 deg. Dropped to 150 after 90 mins.

It has been awhile. Could have been rusty… that’s why i was wondering if i messed something up. i never laundry that wilser bag or use soap or bleach on it. I spray the heck out of it with a garden hose, and submerge it and ring it out. Then hang it to dry. It is an old bag now… i think i...

It’s weird. I don’t know what else would have happened. I store everything in one of those large dog food bins (tightly closing lid).