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I'm evaluating two different Alkaline beer line cleaners. The manufacturer suggested a good way to compare strength was to take a volume of water and add the cleaner to it and see how the pH changed. I'm trying to make sense of my results. I started with 2 quarts of water, it measured pH of...

I recently noticed a trend on 3 different beers I brewed, all having this slightly chalky taste to them. Not enough to spoil the beer, but distinct enough of a bite that it annoys/distracts me. I then realized that all 3 were brewed to the same target water profile. Two were British Bitters...

I have a sack of Weyermann Munich I malt. I hit a gap in my brew schedule and I've got a bunch of that grain left now (11/15/2023) even though it has a Best By date on the sack of 1/13/2023. I've got a brewing experiment I plan to do, to try to quantify the effect of a process variable in some...

I am working with a BrewEasy Classic. It has a standard mash tun and a boil kettle. Mash tun is stacked on top of the boil kettle and uses gravity to bleed off wort from the mash tun via a tube with a fixed orifice. The water gets heated in the boil kettle and then pumped up to the mash tun...

I made a Rye IPA recently. Poured the first pints off the keg and it has this "thick" haze glow to it. Taste is fabulous, and I love the look, just the haze took me by surprise. I don't have any wheat or oats, which is typically how I get haze when I want it. And it's just using Wyeast 1056...

The BrewZilla comes with a 6-foot power cord. Of course the objective is the lowest resistance cord possible to minimize voltage drop, and hence allow maximum power at the brew unit. But the 6-foot length is a bit too constraining for me, and I'm looking for something like 8-foot. Kicking off...

I've got a BrewZilla Gen4 and have been brewing with it the last several batches. Really digging it. I do a lot of step mashes, so was instantly thrilled that when setting up a mash profile I could either set it up to just step to a temperature over a fixed amount of time (typical) or start...

I brew on a 3 vessel system most of the time. The problem I've been having lately is getting a consistent sparge rate/time when pumping from mash tun to boil kettle. And I get significant variation on mash efficiency, depending on that sparge rate. I run the flow out of mash tun through a...

I recently got a CIP spray ball, curious if there was some magic there that made cleaning my kettle or fermentor easier. I've tried it once so far, and realized that as simple as it seems, it definitely needs the right process to make it worthwhile. In my attempt, I was hauling buckets of...

I might be remembering this wrong, but I thought one of the HSA-reduction process techniques was a low vigor boil. But as I was doing a low rolling boil yesterday, I also remembered @Bilsch mentioning that boiling water gets rid of all dissolved oxygen. So that had me thinking that vigorous...

I haven't really thought about this in a long time since I keg everything, and I'm not buying Corona from the store any more... But I recently got a couple FermZilla All Rounders and love them. In my basement, the beers don't ferment in an area where they'd ever get direct sunlight, but it had...

With several threads I've been reading lately, there were proponents of some mash additives with opinions on which one would work better, but there was little in the way of side-by-side comparisons. So I planned out this experiment to mash 3 batches back-to-back, varying just the mash/sparge...

I'm brewing a light lager, and using Cellar Science Berlin dry yeast from MoreBeer based on their suggestion. I'm not a dry yeast guy, and I've never used this yeast before. I oxygenated the wort (stirring oxygen wand with bottled O2 for 1 minute), and directly pitched two packets of their dry...

I'm experimenting with a few of my processes for different reasons. I brew in a 2V setup with a mash lauter tun constantly recirculating through a RIMS, then I transfer to a boil kettle. I have been batch sparging, but just recently decided to wander back to fly sparging. On fly sparge, I've...

I've been reading a bit about LODO processes lately. I already do closed transfers into purged kegs, but I haven't paid any attention to the hot side really. Keeping in mind minimizing oxygen pickup, I changed from using this Brewtech vourlaf attachment during RIMS recirculation to using a...

I've had this fermentor for several years, and it used to be my favorite. The temperature control is definitely amazing. But as time has gone by, newer and shinier fermentors are now on my priority list and this guy just sits neglected. Someone should be using this. I've had it for a little...

A few years back, there was a website (or maybe it was an App?) that you put in your home state, and the state you're travelling to. The website would then spit out a list of beers that you have in your home state that aren't distributed in your destination state, and beers there that you don't...

I recently replaced the o-rings on a keg. The keg was originally bought as new, probably 3-4 years old, so still in very good condition. I didn't have an o-ring problem I was trying to solve, I was just changing them as part of a trial. I changed all the seals, but the keg was leaking air...

A while back I was making a NEIPA and trying out Imperial's A38 Juice (it came out great by the way, very similar to my favorite Wyeast 1318 but slightly less sweet). On their website they said the yeast did best with higher DO levels of 20-25 PPM. From reading other experiments and other...

I recently did a hands on review of a Milwaukee MW600 Dissolved Oxygen meter for HomeBrewFinds. Review linked here. As part of trying out the meter, I did a bunch of different experiments looking at dissolved oxygen. One of them that the results surprised me on was method of beer transfer...