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I am fermenting my first batch in my new 14 gallon SS brew tech conical fermenter. I have been trying to research best practices for when to dump trub, when to best dump yeast, when to cold crash, and when to add dry hops. Can anyone with experience help spell it out for me what is good...

I have several plants in their second year but didn't get a huge amount of hops. So I didn't want to worry about drying them and has planned to do a couple big wet hop brews. But I didn't get time and now the hops have are a yellow/green color and I am not sure if I can still use them...

Hello, Can someone help me figure out why my Raspberry Pints goes blank like a screen saver after a bit. I built the Raspberry Pints before and was able to get everything to work correctly, with the addition of the PIR motion detector. But my memory card went bad and I am having to redo...

Hello, I thought it would be fun to create my own take on a Cascadian Dark Ale. I've never attempted one and it seems fitting that I should, because I live the heart of Cascadia. I am raising the gravity a little bit and also going for some fruity tropical notes. I really like the Armored...

What is the best method to get a pre-boil gravity reading? The reason I ask, is because I get readings with my refractometer that vary. I heat my wort up to 208° while I am sparging, so my pre-boil wort is already hot when I need that measurement. Yesterday I brewed 10 gallons of a...

Hello, I have a Chugger pump that is 11 months old and it does not run every time you start it. When I click it on, it tries to start and you can see the fan moving slightly. If you turn it off and on a couple times it eventually starts. Obviously I can't live with this, because I can not...

I am real excited that I will get to brew my first batch of beer with my bottom drain keg (MLT) with a Loc-Line fly sparge and 15" false bottom from Bobby. I have brewed with my newish BCS eHerms several times, but my efficiency never got up to the 80% mark that I am chasing. For the last...

Hello, Recently I had fun making the Raspberry Pints that many have also done on this site. I also recently built a BCS control panel and electric setup in my brew shed. Currently I use Beersmith on a computer in the house, but need to leave it in the house when I brew for the wife to...

Hello, I am building a new panel with a new 60 GFI sub panel. Here is the GFI I purchased. My wiring is close enough to this for diagnostics. I wired up the panel and turned on the home depot GFI. Then I turned on my key and POP. GFI blows. Power runs into brewery panel to a main...

Hello, I am in the process of building a 50 amp BCS control panel in my brew shed. I've noticed in several builds, that a 50 amp spa panel is used to power their control panels with two 5500 W elements. I spoke with an electrician at my work and asked him about my power needs. I informed...

Hello, I am having a hard time finding where I am losing efficiency between my pre-boil gravity and original gravity. In Short Yesterday I brewed an IIPA with a pre-boil gravity of 1.054 at 8.1 gallons. After a 90 minute boil I had 6 gallons at 1.064. Beersmith says I should have 1.072...

Hello, I am trying my hand in creating and brewing a Roggenbier, even though I have never tasted one. I really like rye whisky and rye in my beers, like in Denny Conn's Rye IPA, so I thought I would go all out and make a rye beer. This is how I stumbled across the Roggenbier. I Have...

Hello, I am trying to figure out the best way to set up my keg as a boil kettle. Currently I am using the keggle with a bazooka tube, a Chugger pump, a Duda Diesel 30 plate chiller, and I use mostly pellet hops. My last batch left over a gallon of beer in keggle after the bazooka screen...

Hello, I recently built a stir plate and used it on batch with great success. I've read conflicting opinion on how far a yeast can be grown without the risk of infection increasing too high. I would like to use one yeast on two separate beers this weekend. How would I go about...

Hello, I just purchased Beersmith and I am trying to figure out how to scale DOWN a recipe from a microbrew recipe. I've found several topics of scaling UP to a microbrew recipe, but not in reverse. From what I gather, to scale in Beersmith you enter a recipe under a certain equipment...

Hello, I have only three all grain brews under my belt and all have had significantly low original gravity. I've searched through many "Low OG" post here and haven't really gotten a better understanding of what I am doing wrong. My first all grain was the Widmer W11' KGB Russian Imperial...