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Okay, so I have a dumb question. When we first got our monster mill 3-roller in, it crushed fine but after a few hundred pounds has been crushed, the roller have moved a bit. I tried to adjust it a bit, but need to pick up some feeler gauges to dial it in. The question I have (mill isn't...

Just ordered the Captain Crush from northern brewer, was wondering if anyone had used this and at what setting you set your rollers. Thanks

We brewed a stout last night, pitched the yeast at 78F put it in the cold room and set it to 67F. Checked it today and it dropped overnight to 58F, it's slowly rising back up. And fermentation seems to be activating. Any issues you guys can forsee? Thanks We pitched .5L 1084 into 1bbl

So we were off on our SG which in turn made us off on our OG today for an Amber Ale. Batch size is 15gal and grain bill is 31 gal. We have 3gal equip loss and 3gal trub loss. Initial mash gal was supposed to be 10gal (per brew365 calc), but I just don't think this was enough! The water...

Would you all suggest dry hopping after fermentation in the fermenter or in the brite tank?

Gonna create a wheat ale with honeysuckle and was wondering what you guys thought the best way to add the honeysuckles would be??

I know it sounds crazy, but I'm from the country and there's nothing like the smell of fired tobacco barns in the cool fall air. So how about making a smoked porter or stout by smoking tobacco leaves just like they do in the barn?? Crazy? Possible??

So we scaled our Porter recipe from 3.5gal to 15gal and all turned out well, then we scaled our 15gal to 30gal and all DID NOT turn out well. IMO, we lost some of the color darkness, some roastiness and the hop profile was too strong. What I try to do when I scale recipes is basically double...

So just got a setup where we can carb 3 kegs at a time. Right now we have 2 hooked up. Beer has been sitting at 12 psi for over a week and still has hardly zero carb, is this user error on my part??? What gives??

How much does yeast throw off a reading?? I try to check my brews from the conical a few times until i hit the FG I am targeting, but when taking a sample from the conical there is so much yeast in suspension that the sample I take is nasty/messy and not much beer; is there a better method?

Figured I would throw this out there to you guys and see what you might have in mind for my application. I have 4x 22gal stainless conical fermenters and 1x 80gal conical fermenter. None of these are jacketed so I am looking at a way to control the temps, as obviously the 80gal won't fit in a...

So we've made a Christmas stout and plan to add some cocao nibs to give a bit of chocolatey aroma. Our plan as of now is to add 8oz. for a 15gal batch, but from what I'm reading this doesn't seem like a whole lot?! Fermentation should be complete by the wknd, so I plan on crushing the nibs...

Brewed a Honey Amber Ale today. Batch size is 15gal. We brew on a 1bbl system; we figured today that we lose 3gal from mash to boil and 3gal from boil to fermenter, this is what is below the false bottom. We could tilt it to get more, but we figured this in to our losses. Ok, so our target...

I had a target OG of 1.072 but instead hit 1.080...what would lead to this?? I think that my preboil volume was low; wouldn't this lead to a higher OG?? I am really trying to get this efficiency thing nailed down.... Thanks

Brewed an Imperial Red Ale 10 days ago. The target OG was supposed to be 1.062 but instead I hit 1.071. Its been fermenting now for the 10 days and is only down to 1.032 (target FG is 1.017) Its a 15gal batch, I used 3 vials of WLP004. Normally this tackles a 15gal batch without a starter...

What's method do you guys use when racking from a conical? Do you dump yeast first and run the rest out?? Or do you dump yeast, let beer run clear then rack it off?? Or an alternate method? Thanks!!

Just a quick question to see how you all check your gravity during fermentation from a conical?? I have a brewhemoth and have normally just ran some off into my test tube from the racking valve but it seems as though this gets some yeast in there. I didn't know if there may be a better...

So I currently have 4 brewhemoth fermenters and am looking to invest in the pressurizer for smooth transfer to kegs. Does anyone know what all parts I would need to make this work? I am new to this pressurized transfer thing? What's the proper process?? Thanks!! :ban:

Hey guys, I thought some of you all may be able to give me some insight on this subject. We are about to purchase 2-2BBL Jacketed brite tanks and we need a glycol system for these. Can anyone tell me what size we may need and a good place to pick a system up is?? Thanks!! :mug:

So I am turning a 3.5gal batch of Sweet Potato Ale into a 1bbl batch and I need to do some scaling on the spices. Is there a rule of thumb on scaling spices?? Right now I have them almost doubled, minus a bit. :drunk: