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I made an imperial stout a couple of days ago and ended up with an OG of 1.09 before I added my starter. After adding the 2l starter I took another gravity reading since I knew it would be diluted and had 1.086. I usually crash and decant large starters but unfortunately didnt have time. So...

So I am just getting started with figuring out my water chemistry and how to adjust it, so go easy on me. I got my water report from Ward and was entering all the values in bru'n water. My water report includes Bicarbonate (HCO3) of 118. I also noticed that the spreadsheet has a calculator...

I just got my water report as follows: pH 7.9 Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) Est, ppm 402 Electrical Conductivity, mmho/cm 0.67 Cations / Anions, me/L 6.4 / 6.4 ppm Sodium, Na 77 Potassium, K 4 Calcium, Ca 30 Magnesium, Mg 18 Total Hardness, CaCO3 150 Nitrate, NO3-N 0.9 (SAFE)...

I am sending a sample off to Ward labs. I currently use a carbon filter so I am wondering if I should send the sample of the filtered water or non-filtered water? I assume that I should send them a sample of whatever is going into my kettle?

I only have room for one bucket in my ferm chamber and want to brew again, my oatmeal stout with S04 has hit FG so I assume its ok to take it out and let it chill in my closet. Temps range from 55-65 in there these days.

I was looking at a recipe that called for a 30 minute hop stand and then using a hopback. If I did a 30 minute hop stand then wouldnt the wort temp be to cool for the hopback to be effective?

Just need to get my hoist set up for my basket! No leaks (for now) after about 100 test runs.

1/2" OD x 50' Stainless Steel, one small kink as seen in pic. $50.

I am thinking about tapping into my sinks supply line to add a dedicated line for running water thru my filter and also for my plate chiller. I am thinking something like this? Anyone done something similar?

Finally getting around to tapping this keg of duet and find mold under the plastic cap. What should I do?

I started building a control panel and have decided to go another direction. This is the ebrewsupply 30a 2 element kit with 3 td4-snr PID's. Its been partially wired but will include what I believe to be rest of the necessary wiring. Leviton locking receptacles are installed and also...

I have a barleywine I'm about to keg and I also have some french medium toast oak cubes that have been simmering with some bourbon for a bit for use with another beer. I was thinking about pouring the residual bourbon from the container into the keg and racking on that. Thoughts?

I kegged my zombie dust clone about a week ago and just noticed a leak around the seal of the lid of my keg, I had to bleed of the co2 so I could pull the lid and replace the gasket. Will bleeding off have any negative affects on hop aroma?

Does this go by another name or something? I have a recipe that calls for it but cant seem to find it anywhere.

Does this go by another name or something? I have a recipe that calls for it but cant seem to find it anywhere.

Say you have 2 batches of the same beer, all other things being the same lets say one was brewed with 12 lbs of 2 row and hit 70% efficiency, the other brewed with less grains but hit 85% efficiency, thus they both ended up with the same OG despite differing grain bills. How would the flavor...

I thought I would have a keg available for my IPA but it looks like I might not have one available for a bit. Hops have already been in for 7 days, should I rack into another carboy to get it off the hops? Or is it ok to dry hop another couple weeks? Its 1oz Cascade and 1/2oz simcoe.

Will this work? I just picked this up on my lunch from home depot so not sure how its going to fit in regards to the bottom of my kettle but it seems like it might work.

If I have a beer thats ready to keg but no room in the keezer can I just throw it in the keg like normal, hit it with 12psi and let it chill till I can put it in the keezer?

I kegged a pretty strong (11%) imperial IPA in early December and despite it starting out very good it just never really got drank for some reason (I think it scared people) and I still had about 1/2 a corny left. I tasted some this week and it had lots the hoppiness and was just overly malty...