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Is there a good primer or other introduction to barrel aging beers? A friend is offering me a couple of small whiskey barrels, one five gallon, one three, to use to try making a (hopefully worthy) barrel-aged beer. We both like dark belgians, and I have had a few nice barrel-aged interpretations...

I have had a Spike glycol chiller (repackaged from Penguin Chillers) for about two years. Until this week it has worked mostly fine to chill my CF10 (although cold crashing when the summer humidity peaks in my brewery is a separate challenge). I count myself a generally happy customer. The...

I disassembled and cleaned my Spike All-in-one PRV yesterday and found what looks to be a black oil residue on the end of the pressure gauge. Admittedly I hadn't cleaned this in a while as my normal process is to mount the PRV on a 6" spool to keep it well above the krausen and just spray some...

I have a conundrum regarding how much suck back volume occurs when cold crashing. Background: I accidentally created a suck back situation when I soft crashed my CF10 fermenter and forgot that I hadn't used my spunding valve on this batch (more precisely I didn't close off the blow off valve...

I have brewed a decent Zombie Dust clone several times, but this week I picked up a six-pack of the real thing to compliment my current taps (a Belgian Wit and a CTZ/Chinook/Citra West Coast IPA). My recollection (and supported by photos on UnTappd) is that Zombie Dust has at most a slight bit...

I am wondering if anyone has figured out how to do configure an Inkbird ITC-308-WiFi to do a free rise fermentation. My current process is to chill my wort down to 64-65F, aerate and pitch yeast. I then move the (plastic bucket) fermenter into the chamber and tape the temperature probe to the...