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I'm looking forward to acquiring an Inkbird controller to both improve the control over fermentation temperature and do the cold crash after it ends (apparently it's possible since the temperature range includes 0 °C). The specs of the Inkbird controller don't mention volume of beer. Assuming...

Update: added the peeled and chopped cucumbers without seeds into the carboy. Did a slight sanitation by putting them on a zip bag and added a bit of non denatured 96 % alcohol. Left 2 days and a half in which the carboy looked like one of those cool jars of fruit drink. Beer was kegged and a...

Hello brewers. I'm doing a cucumber version of sour beer (lactic acid addition, so no lactobacillus involved) and was wondering how to avoid contamination from the microbes present in the cucumber itself since they are added after fermentation. Recipe instructions are rather sparse ("add chopped...

Hi. I ran out of crown caps and bought a new batch from a different supplier. Size felt different but tried bottling anyway. Using a counter pressure filler and a Grifo bottle capper, last batch gave me no trouble at all, being able to freely press down until the cap hit a natural stop. With...

As the title say, I'm on the business of tracing the origin of haze / turbidity on my beers and one surprising answer that I've got from HLS was fine flour particles from the grinding that wouldn't drop out of suspension. On the one hand it feels like being told a bad excuse to cover up a poor...

HI, looking for advice. I acquired Anvil's 20 gal kettles to have a three vessel system because I thought the size was manageable but now I'm finding out the rough way that there's no 20 gal size fermenters of any kind on the market, so it seems I either set for the 14 gal or 60 Liter fermenters...

Hi brewers. I've recently changed a barleywine recipe from Great Western Malting's Premium Two Row malt to Avangard's Pilsen Malt and from brown sugar addition at boil to Briess's Pilsen Light DME (I use a bit of Crystal 120 malt to add color just as before). To my dismay, the last two batches...

If you don't mind, where did you get the Tapcooler setup? I browsed all the major sites that are announced as official Tapcooler suppliers and they were all sold out of the canning setup. And apparently there is no other alternative for counter pressure filling.

Hi people. This has probably already been asked a lot of times, but given the details it was hard for me to browse: When transferring carbonated beer from one keg to another which is smaller, is there a way to automatically control or stop the flow when the smaller keg is full? I've seen some...

I’ve done both natural carbonation in bottle, forced carbonation in keg and pressure bottling, guess I’m just missing natural carbonation in keg to check all marks. Impressions: · Natural carbonation has the risk of tasting residual sugars even after the beer is reasonably carbonated...

Hi doods. I had had enough trouble filling bottles with the Beer Gun and the breakage of the tip seal piece was the last straw for me, so I switched to a counter pressure bottle filler. Now, after getting the jist of the device, bottles come out nicely carbonated and foam doesn't turn the whole...

Have you tried pulling the lid while pumping the CO2? I have one old used pin lock which can't seal for its life unless the CO2 pressure pushes the lid up. Once seal is done, it stays sealed and carbonates as usual. But yeah after it I've learned not to buy neither used nor pin lock. Still...

Update. Finally got the chance to put the flash cooler to test, upped the pressure straight up to 20 psi with a slight fear of something bursting, like a beer tubing which might be loosely attached. Fortunately, got to adjust flow using the flow control valve of the faucet while I was passing...

To be fair, a RO system is opening a can of worms so get ready. It's easy to get nice pure water with any RO system after it have just been unboxed, the challenge is to keep the membranes functional along time. If water is relatively concentrated on dissolved solids, some of them can...

I used a keg flash cooler last weekend, and got plenty of foam most of the evening. Ice actually formed in the water cooling the coils, and there was an impeller and a pump circulating water through the line up to the tower, so I don’t think it’s an issue about the lines not being cold enough...

Regular raw irish moss has given me results. Haven't tested Whirlfloc. On the other hand, I got zero clearing with the Super Moss powder, anyone has similar experience? Tried to dissolve it in refrigerated wort before adding it to the boil and still got almost null results.

Upon further inspection turned out to be a regular D type. As explained by Qhrumphf, the probe is shorter and has a "claw" shape instead of the longer rectangular shape of the S. Thank you guys for the input. I'm still skeptical of the flash chiller (like these...

Got handled a flash chiller system with a pair of couplers which I assumed they were D, but upon inspection didn't know what type they are: Those two ridges suggest it could be an S type but since the whole system belonged to Modelo that sounds weird.

Been getting flat beer on kegs despite apparently having enough pressure and low enough temperature, so I'm researching how to measure carbonation. Turns out the Zahm is quite expensive and the Gehaltemeters are even higher priced. Looking at the Taprite tester, turns out that it is merely a...

Thanks, needed confirmation that it wasn't something that it's not done for some clear reason I wasn't seeing. So hot wort it is. These lactics are going to go for one hell of a ride.