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So, back before wlp644 was outed as a sach strain, I had done a little bit of playing around with it and thought it was ok. I had always thought it was this elusive strain of brett that had been isolated from Drie Fontainin. Is seems like BSI is the only yeast company that is selling this...

So I'm in the earlyish phases of planning my electric brewery. I've got most of the parts for my control panel and started to see stuff for raspberry pi's that intreagued me. I had planned on going with PID's, and most likely still will, but I've got a question. Is there anything that a...

So I'm slowly working on the conversion to electric. I am going to build my full eherms panel here in the next few weeks after I get the last few odds and ends, then electrify my HLT, put a herms coil in it, and finally electrify the boil kettle. My goal is to build it up one piece at a time...

So I'm in the middle stage of planning my electric brew rig, I've settled on a basic idea, have most of the parts figured out and am now trying to work out some of the "nice to have" things in addition to the already figured out "need to haves" I'm wondering if anyone has incorporated a clean...

So I'm trying to streamline my system, but also allow for the most variability to "play" with my process. Most of what I'm looking to play around with is at flameout and after. Here is how I'm currently set up: Boil Kettle --> Pump --> Duda Plate chiller I'm adding a hop back to the...

So water is sort of the "final fronteir" for me. I've played around and messed with just about every other aspect of brewing to the point where I feel that I've got a good handle on most of the major aspects like regulating my brewing process, recipe development, yeast handling, fermentation...

Ok, so I wasn't sure where to put this, so figured this was as good a forum as any. A friend and I are planning to fill a 60 gallon wine barrel to start a solera project. We've got the line on a recently dumped pinot noir barrel and both have enough experience brewing and making sour beers to...

So not a specific electric brewing question, but maybe those of you on here with some experience can give me some ideas. I built a peltier cooled conical about 3 months ago based off sort of reverse engineering a morebeer ultimate conical. I've got 4 peltier chips (tec-12715) and a computer...

Does anyone out there know of a orchard that offers fresh juice in the NY/NJ area that makes a good hard cider? I'd love to be able to bring a carboy or two and have them fill it up for me instead of buying gallons jugs if possible.

So I just got me a 15 gallon conical. Woohoo. Got my first batch of IPA fermenting hard in it. So psyched. Here is my question I want to solve. Can anyone give me an idea on how to get the chilled wort from my plate chiller into the conical? I brew outside and the conical is in the basement...

So is there a way to ease into an electric brewery that gives me the option later on to upgrade to a fully electric three vessel system, ala the electric brewery? Here is my situation, I am currently using a 15 gallon kettle and 70quart cooler mlt with a propane burner. Doing 10 gallon batches...

So i've brewed a few sour beers and they've come out really tasty. I basically brew a pretty simple base beer, pitch a decent pitch of a brewers yeast strain (I've used us-05, wlp530, wlp002, and a few others) and at the same time pitch sour dregs from bottles. I will add more dregs as I drink...

Looks like we might get above freezing temps for a few days this weekend for the first time in what feels like forever. That means brew day to help get the pipeline going again. Since i don't have a ton of time to prep/get to the homebrew store this is gonna have to be from the stuff on hand...

So i'm thinking of trying to add a little fruit to my berliner weisse. I saw "cascade candy syrup" from morebeer and they had blood orange as one of the flavors. I picked up two containers, not quite sure how i plan on working them into the beer and am looking for some help/advice. I...

So i've skimmed the archives looking for the best way to get coffee flavor into beer and i've found the following: 1. ground in the boil 2. in the fermenter (ground and whole beans) 3. hot brewed coffee added somewhere 4. cold brewed coffee added somewhere So one thing i've been...

Alright so I feel like I've got lots of my process down and the last piece of the puzzle, and maybe the most confusing is water chemistry. I guess the easiest and most repeatable process would be to buy distilled water and build it up from there, but I'm wondering if my filtered tap water...

Ok, so i've made a step up to 10 gallon batches. Or at least have brewed a few of them, and I love the ability to get 2x the beer for less than 2x the work. My question is if there is any way to keep beers like IPA' fresh in that second keg while i'm waiting to put it on tap? I am amazed...

So i've slowly build up my brew system. I finally have a temperature controlled space capable of holding more than one carboy/bucket, have built up my vault of corny kegs, and have a mash tun/kettle capable of getting me 10 gallon batches. With that I feel like i'm ready to try my hand at...

Ok, so here's my situation. I love the idea of a semi-automated electric brewery. Think its an awesome way to go and want to figure out a way to do it. Looks like lots of you guys do this in your basement. Can't do that as my basement is packed full of garbage (alright storage of stuff we...

So i've got a pale ale recipe I'm planning on brewing up in the next few days, basically Jamil's from Brewing Classic Styles - 8lbs -2 Row .75lbs munich .75lbs victory .5lbs wheat I'm going to brew this as a 100% brett fermentation with brett trois, and to help build mouthfeel I was...