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War bird uses belle saison yeast, everything else is us-05.

I thinks it's safe to say there's a lot of TV magic.

Keep it in there until it's tasting up to your standards then rack it accordingly. Maybe look into picking up a ph meter.

If you have a boil ripping, wouldn't the heat and steam coming off essentially pasteurize the lid?

When I add 60oz of puréed frozen berries I lose a degree or two, but then the beer comes back up to ambient. If you have a ferm chamber and a Johnson you can just tape the probe to the side of the ferm vessel and let it do its thing.

For pure dank hop flavor you can't get better then a nice Pipeworks IPA. In Chicago they are the best that's available period. I don't mean they have one or two good IPA's I'm talking half a dozen plus, all phenomenal.

I've been experimenting with raspberries IPA's for the last nine months having pitched 36oz of frozen whole berries into secondary for almost every batch. The last batch I brewed was an imperial and I pitched 60oz of berries. I puréed them and the aroma and flavor was incredibly more intense...

Bump So I recently heard of a local craft brewery that had a filled and pressurized keg explode over night in their chiller room. I also did a little digging and found Sanke kegs are state to have a maximum operating pressure of 60 psi but can with stand up to 600 psi before bursting. These...

Doubling up on magnets does not work for me. I experimented with it however the added force is enough to keep the fan from spinning.

So there are a ton of cheap ones on the market, any recommendations on a solid, precise one that will read in gravity. I figure nearly all the cheap ones are the same Chinese POS rebranded, who builds quality instrument at a fair price.

That looks like substantially more work then using a car boy.

I ordered a founders at a bar recently. It was pretty busy and the bar tender really didn't know anything about craft. It tastes like sewer water totally sickening. Turns out it wasn't a founders like from Michigan but a Newcastle founders. Totally gross don't know if the beer is that bad or...

Nope speed exactly where it was before, (on high) when I turn it all the way to low it gets thrown but locks in on high speeds.

So the 1/4" SS ball bearings were a no go, ordered one of those 25mm stir bars off amazon for $3 shipped got it today and works great. I used a rheostat for speed control, and I think the poles on my longer stir bar migrated and caused it to become unbalanced.

I'm going to test some stainless steel ball bearings in the flask after work. I just find it strange that it worked flawlessly for 40+ hours then doesn't.

I've ordered a smaller stir bar. Will test once it gets here's.

Magnets are still intact, I used two rare earth magnets and epoxied them in place balanced on the fan. My bar will spin on the top of my stir plate, not in the flask though. Fan spins freely and the magnets are not too strong as they do not over power motor.

What gives? Used it twice for starters and it worked great, now it's getting thrown. Everything else in the system has remained constant, level, balanced etc. any thoughts?

I made the one on the right.

Finished for now, I want to add a top it. Something cutting board or butcher block esque then secure the draft tower to that, sheet metal screws are lame.