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When lowering the temp of a beer post-fermentation—whether it be cold crashing an ale, a soft crash before dry hopping a NEIPA, or lagering after the diacetyl rest—brewers sometimes recommend doing so slowly (3-5 degrees a day, or whatever). I know not everybody does it, but what is the...

I try to be good about hop storage. I buy in bulk, keep in the freezer, and vacuum seal any open packages. Is there any downside to mixing varieties in one vac sealed bag? For example, yesterday I made an IPA. Opened new bags of 3 different hops. Measured and tossed in all the hot side...

I've been intrigued by what I've read about this style. Wayfairer seems to have started it, and describes it as follows: Their malt bill is something like 70% pilsner and 30% corn or rice. They use 34/70 but ferment warm to get high attenuation and reduced ester production. I'm interested...

I bought a bunch of kegs recently. Okay, I bought too many kegs. But it was hard to pass up a good deal and I was able to sneak them inside when my wife wasn’t home. Anyway, a couple have this thing that I don’t recognize where the prv would normally be. I assume I need to replace this part...

Can someone help me understand the "ramp time" in Brewfather's fermentation profiles? I believe the other programs use it as well. I can get along fine without it but I'd like to use it as fully as possible to make sure my process is documented and consistent. For example, my target...

We've been in our new house for about 4 months. I've got a basement that I'm turning into a man cave with a bar and and little old kitchen that I'll convert to my brewery. Here's the bar build so far. It's my first real woodworking project.

I just bought a new house and there's a crappy old second kitchen in the basement that will make a perfect brewery. RO has been on my radar as something I might later look into, but I found this sitting unused and disconnected in a cabinet. The previous owner had a fish tank, and theres a...

Can anyone tell me if either of the motors would work for a grain mill? I've got a cereal killer that I'd love to motorize. https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/for/d/pool-spa-motor-new/6650816310.html...

I have a Brooklyn Lager clone lagering in a keg with bagged dry hops inside. I've got about a week left of lagering. At the end, I planned to clarify with gelatin and then jump to a serving keg to get it off the hops and clear out any sludge. Just found out my parents are coming down next...

Would this work as an HLT element? https://www.lowes.com/pd/Utilitech-Water-Heater-Screw-Element/3692734 I plan to have a very limited use for this HLT. I just got a grainfather, which doesn't heat sparge water, and that's all I plan to do with this HLT. In fact, I'll probably put ALL my...

This past weekend I made a batch of an American wheat beer and split it into two fermenters. One got 001 and a vial of white labs lacto brevis. I had a starter for the 001 but not the 672. I don't plan to add any other bugs to the sour, because while my wife and friends love sour beer, the...

I've been having a hell of a time trying to get my oxygenator 2.0 kit to work properly. For quite some time, I was unable to attach an o2 bottle to the regulator without losing all the gas in the process. The o2 would shoot out with a force that made it difficult to screw the bottle in, and...

Where the heck does the gasket sit? It seems too big to fit the place that seems most obvious and the instructions don't say. Hopefully someone who has one of these can help, I'm halfway through my mash! Thanks!

I don't know why this never occurred to me, but my in-laws live just outside Worcester, MA and in advance of our next visit, I thought I'd see if there were any breweries known for N.E. IPA's nearby. I've never tried one before. It turns out Tree House is only 50 minutes west, so I will...

I got a tap water analysis from Ward in October 2014. My zip code is 20903. I'd love to see what others in the area have in their water to determine any locational, seasonal, or gradual changes. FWIW, this was straight out of the tap from a utility sink in my basement. pH 7.7...

I built a CFC out of copper tubing and a rubber garden hose. The first time I used it I got a clog after about 2 gallons. So I bought a cheap pump and built a hop spider before my next batch. Testing it out before hand, I could pump hot water through the CFC and back up into the kettle...

I'm trying to improve my process and a big part of that is measuring. The mash seems like an important part of my process that is ripe for improvement so I've been reading up on water chemistry and the mash process. I had not appreciated the importance of pH and I'm trying to implement what...

So this weekend SWMBO took me to the Dogfish Head Brewery in Milton, DE. It was a really fun trip. I expected the brewery to be a lot bigger than it was, i think they had about 8 fermenters, but they said they're about to double their capacity. Two or three of them were made of wood, one was...

This may be kind of weird, but that's sort of what I'm going for. 10lbs US 2-Row 1lb Cara-Pils 1lb Crystal 80 .75lb Victory 1 oz Chinook at 60 .75oz Chinook at 30 .5oz Willamette at 15 .5 Chinook at 5 .5 Willamette at 5 2 small Chipotle peppers, probably in the fermenter, maybe...

I've got a 3 keg setup, which has had 2 kegs on it. The second of those two kegs (brown ale) was just about done carbonating when I added a third keg (hefe). Went on vacation, came back, and had run out of CO2. That was about a month ago and I still haven't gotten around to refilling my co2...