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If you use/need campden tabs in your brewing water, do/should you also add it to your StarStan mix? And your reasoning is ... Cheers, :mug: Joel B.

I have been using campden tabs to treat my water for chlorine and I extract brew. I split 1 tab and it goes into the boil pot before I steep grains ( when used). After steeping the grain I'll add some extract and water to start a 3 gal. boil. I put remainder 1/2 tab in a jug, (1/2 gal +/-) of...

Well it looks like even us lazy extract brewers have putting way too much work in our beers. Just get some of these and "wa-la" , great tasting beer!!! I wonder if you would add these in to already good beer, just how great it would become?:rock::goat:🏆 Cheers, :mug: Joel B.

This might be a dumb question but my next beer is this kit that I am going to make. I have not added hops as late as this recipe does, a 2 oz. @ 1min. addition. So my thoughts are just basically just bag them like the others and only let them boil for just 1 min and take them out with the rest...

Just doing some price updating in BeerSmith last week and I went to NB & MS to see if the prices had gone up much lately. Much to my surprise Midwest didn't even have a LME page any more and Northern's posting Out of Stock on all of theirs, every one of them. So I popped an e-mail and got this...

I'm trying to make a custom report I BeerSmith v.2.3. It's just a txt report that I want to make/print on brew day. It's pretty basic and I have it working like I want except that I can't get it to yield any version number but 1. I have a few recipes with multiple versions counts in the design...

Some times I just think about dumb stuff. This time it is about what constitutes calling a beer "American". I see it prefixing many styles, "American" wheat, porter, pale ale etc. Must be something that they have in common, what is it? I suppose I could look at all the recipes and try to...

So I sub to Brewing Industry Guide and the sale bill popped up for this place. I did a little googling and found a couple of stories but it made me wonder if this was a case of "too big, too fast" or, as they want to blame, covid as a big part of the demise. Just thinking, looks...

Question; How long should/need fermention to be at the optimal temp. Let's say I'm using temp control (ice bath/swamp cooling/CoolStix what ever) but after x/hours it becomes a problem to maintain said temp. Is 50% projected attenuation enough to prevent any off flavor traits? (more-less?)...

I bought an Alt beer kit from Norther Brewer and it has a pound of "Rathskeller Grain Blend" in it. I tried to find out what they were but I had no luck finding any thing by that grain name any place I looked. So the question is, "What is in the bag". The recipe says " Rathskeller Grains:-1 lbs...

Hello all, I am going to use Lallemand Kolsch yeast for the first time in two beer kits that I bought. One is a Alaskan Amber clone (Eskimo Amber)(OG aprox 1.057) from MB, the other is the Imperial Porter from NB (OG = aprox 1.090). After doing some research on that yeast it looks like that one...

Hi all ! I am going to be up grading to a new (to me) laptop with Win 10 Pro.(build # is unknown at this time) It's a 64 bit machine with 8g of ram. My questions are, 1) will my BS2 (ver. 2.3) work on such a computer? 2) any suggestions and/or tricks on the installing BS if it will. I have...

OK, preface: I have been working on a high ABV "beer" that's just that, "beer". If I have to give a title it would be a imperial cream ale. It started out as a NB kit (extract) with a ABV of 7.5 % and I have it at abt 9% with adds of my own doing. This is the 4 th version of this beer. I...

I was going to brew up a batch of beer today. When I'm setting out the supplies I noticed that that the package of Lallermand Kolch yeast has a hole poked in it. I have no idea when it happened. It might have been that way when I got or when I got it out today. It has been in my fridge in a...

Any of you Hi-Fi folks out there replace the rotted foam on speakers? I was given a pair of Bose 301's but the foam surround on the bass drivers are "gone". Found a place to get kits to fix them but is it worth it? https://www.simplyspeakers.com/bose-speaker-foam-edge-repair-kit-fsk-8.html...

I hate to be a pain butt the BeerSmith site is worthless as to trying to find the last version that works on Win XP, I have trial Ver.2.2.13. (not yet purchased pending having the latest I can use). It talks about ver 2.3 but doesn't say if it is 32 bit XP compatible. Do I have to buy 2.2.13...

I'm evaluating BS 2, (not enough computer for ver3). Why do I have calendar listings for 3 brews but only have brewed 1? There is no brew log file/folder in "my recipies" so why did they go to the calendar?. How do I remove said rouge recipies? TIA. Joel B.

I guess i am dense,stupid of maybe just missing something.:rolleyes: I am using Beersmith 2.2.13 trial to see if's something useful to "me" before I buy it. (as do I really need it as an extract brewer) but i have some questions. 1. I'm not sure how to set up the equipment profiles. I brew with...

There might be some thing like this in the forums here but I have yet to see it. I stumbled found it on Pintrest and thought I would share it. Some of you old hats might be able to just look at OG & FG and figure the ABV quickly in your head. For some of us mere mortals this chart would be...

Not really a lot of info in the story. I'm looking for more. Any body else know anything? Joel B. EDIT> I guess this has been in the works for a while. Guess I need to get out from under my rock once in a while,,,,