Recent content by Muchacho

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Glad to see you are back at it! And glad to hear that you are getting reproducible results for predicting gravity. After your first round, I made a counter similar to your design and find it be a little easier to use (and make) that the ones that I have made with IR sensors. I like using...

Simple patience did the trick. I think think I still get a faint whiff of rotten eggs, but I cant tell if I am just too keyed in on it at the moment. I dont know why I have struggled with hefes recently. For years, I was able to make a proper hefe pretty easily. For the last 2-3 yrs, they...

It looks like your code is not longer posted. If I remember correctly, you had a 20 ms pause in your loop. I think you would get better data if you changed from trying to count bubbles, to keeping track of the fraction of the time that the sensor is returning 1 with a smaller pause. For me I...

Thanks for the input. Thankfully the sulfur smell has cleared. I decided not to spund it. Maybe next time!

I have also messed around with a bubble counter. I made mine with an IR gate and keep track of the fraction of the time that has air in the air lock. Mine tests every 5 ms and then keeps track of the fraction of time that the gate is open. I dont know if this will be helpful, but here is what...

Thanks for the reply. Is it OK to start carbonating or does it need to off-gas?

I recently brewed a hefeweizen using a fresh pitch of Imperial Stefon. Unfortunately, it reeks of rhino farts about 5 days into the fermentation. I was planning on spunding the batch to get a head start on carbonation. But if the batch is spunded, will I be effectively 'trapping' in the...

So, the beer eventually dropped down to 1.012. After about 7 days, the rate of fermentation picked up for a day or so. Super slow ferment, I fermented at 74 - > 78 and did not add any yeast nutrients. It tastes a little off, and reminded me of how ferments went back in the day of old dry yeast...

I am fermenting a 1.055 APA with hornindal from omega and it is stuck ~ 1.030. I am hoping to get some advise on how to handle this, as I have read that this strain can hang if over pitched and, therefore am not sure that adding more yeast will 'unstick' the ferment. This is the 2nd pitch...

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I'm in!

I'm in!