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been having trouble with water chemistry and I’m trying to avoid using lactic acid. This current setup came out to 5.57ph on Brewfather. Does is look good for a Kolsch?

I have been exclusively kegging for a while. Never fully replaced any lines on my kegerator or basic picnic taps, but always run PBW or line cleaner through (few times a year or as I kill a keg) and then run sanitizer through. Beer started tasting sour, mostly after taste on my tongue...

How often do people clean the 5 gallon RO water jugs that get reused and refilled at grocery store vending machines? I have 3 that I’ve had for 6 months and never cleaned, just keep filling them back up…

Today I brewed a SMASH pale ale 1.051 OG US05 12 lb marisotter Loral hops anybody else brew today?

I read that it’s good to dry hope during bio transformation. My NEIPA was supposed to finish at 1.016 so I decided to dry hop at 1.028. I pressure ferment in a corny keg. This time since it’s a NEIPA and I want some esters, I kept the pressure lower, under 10 psi. When I went to release the...

Anyone with a Grainfather think I can still brew in the morning?

Figured I would share this: I'm sure there are plenty of other options out there, and depending on what your LHBS has, you may have much simpler solutions. For me, in Cincinnati, I couldn't find a good solution for 6mm (or 1/4") tubing that would also fit any variation of the gas disconnects I...

Planning to start my grainfather at 4am tomorrow for very basic American Light Lager. Recipe: Pilsner 6.5lb Corn, flaked 1.35lb Corn sugar (late addition) .5lb Voss Kveik yeast, 1 pack dry Mash step 1 147F 75min Mashout 165F 10 min Boil 90 min 60 min hallertau .5oz 10 min hallertau .5oz...

I had a beer with OG of 1.039 hoping for FG of 1.006. Finished at 1.010. I decided to add Pilsner DME (boiled down to concentrate in RO water, with some yeast pitched in it). Ended up adding about .5 gallons to the fermenter, with around 1.5lb DME in total. Reduced corny pressure and added 30...

I'm brewing a high gravity beer (5.5 gallon after boil) that I will be diluting with distilled water to get 10.5 gallons to fill two cornys. I use distilled water for everything and I used Brew smith to build the water profile for an american lager as if I was using a large grainfather system...

I have an amber lager using mangrove jack California lager yeast, which recommends 64-68 range for fermentation. The room I’m fermenting in isnt insulated, it’s sort of a branch of the basement, the only area not underground. This morning it was around 60 degrees. In the winter it gets as low as...

Perhaps there has been other discussion on this, I haven't found anything though. I only ferment under pressure, and use the SpundIT 2.0 Generally, I don't have issues with too much krausen overflow, but it happens, and I know the valve is not clean. Does it matter? Should I clean it? If...

My Elvis juice clone turned out around 7.5% and easy to drink, so let’s just say it was dangerous. I wanted to drop the abv, so I added 3 water bottles (20 oz PET bottles) of spring water using a carb cap through the gas post. I made sure that I squeezed the bottle and capped it where the water...

I know there has been other posts on high gravity brewing with the dilution process coming before fermentation but figured I would discuss my particular situation. I have a somewhat unique local source that focuses on keg equipment but the owner has started to blend his inventory to focus more...

This is a classic American “lager”, fermenting with kveik yeast. Already moved from 1.041 to 1.030 in about 12 hours (per my tilt…) spundit 2.0 on a corny keg, pressure fermenting this time at 25psi. Small space heater, blankets… garage. Knock off inkbird, connected to my google smart home...

Can I remove my spundIT 2.0 when I go to cold crash? Does it matter? Or should I keep it on?

I’m prepping my Grainfather for the brew tomorrow morning. Cleaned it, rinsed, sanitized… For one, I’ve cleaned this sucker multiple times and I’m still wiping off what appears to be manufacturing oil when I wipe the bottom with a paper towel. Seems like every single time. Thin layer of faint...

Might be a dumb question, but I'm wondering if my beer is done fermenting under pressure. When I tighten the spunding valve, the pressure rises accordingly over the course of the day, yet my FG has been stable for at least 48 hours (using a Tilt). Wouldn't the spundng valve show no change in...

I always filter my home brew via closed transfer with two Corny kegs, 1 micron filter. Of course purge it of air and sanitize. I’m thinking about trying gelatin as well. Can I put gelatin in my serving keg at the bottom, purge the keg of air, seal it closed with co2, then hook up my filter and...

Take a look at my carb stone… I used it once with a wheat beer, and I thought I boiled it out enough after… I read to store in vodka. It’s been a few months and now it looks like it’s rusting, but I don’t see how that possible. Could it be beer that is leaking out from before? There are small...