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| bio | website | taulpepper.com |
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| location | Brooklyn, NY | |
| age | 33 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 10 months |
| seen | May 6 at 21:42 | |
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PhD student and part-time developer. Member of the New York City Homebrewers Guild. My favorite styles are American ales.
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May 6 |
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How to make more beer than I can boil? There's another good article about the in May/June 2013 edition of Zymurgy "Malt Extract: Late Addition Brewing" by Amahl Turczyn Sheppach. Light colored beers can benefit from adding 50% or more of the extract when there's 15 minutes left in the boil. You can get lighter beer, with shorter time for Maillard reactions, and better hop utilization, due to lower wort density. (Note Zymurgy is not free, you need to be an AHA member to read: homebrewersassociation.org/pages/zymurgy/current-issue) |
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May 6 |
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Why an erlynmeyer flask? It's a good question, but very easy to answer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlenmeyer_flask |
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May 6 |
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Why an erlynmeyer flask? No. The main reason you use an Erlenmeyer flask over other lab glassware is it's shape, not the material - easy to stop, easy to swirl, stable so it won't tip and spill. You can get all kinds of lab glassware made from borosilicate glass. This type of glass is resistant to thermal shock, so you can rapidly heat and cool it. Pyrex is just a brand, and they make a lot of glass that is not borosilicate. |
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May 3 |
answered | lemon flavor after kegging |
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May 3 |
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Aggressive foam from Keg Woops, there are release valves on sanke couplers. |
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May 3 |
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Aggressive foam from Keg @TobiasPatton good call, forgot to mention that. I updated the answer to include it so that this can be accepted (hopefully). |
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May 3 |
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Aggressive foam from Keg Edited to include suggestion from Tobias Patton in comments. |
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May 2 |
answered | Is There A Way To Get Root Beer Taste/Smell Out Of Kegging Equipment? |
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May 2 |
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Aggressive foam from Keg He's talking about commercial/sankes. I don't think you can "bleed" a sanke without pouring beer out. That said, this question is probably off-topic because it's not about homebrew kegs. |
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May 2 |
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Aggressive foam from Keg This is a useful link, but he doesn't know the "pressure in the keg in PSI" because it's a commercial sanke, not a corny that he carbonated himself. |
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May 2 |
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May 2 |
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How to prime with maple syrup? It's risky because of this fermentability issue. You should round up or you run the risk of the bottles exploding. But this could lead to undercarbonation. Seems like it would be nice to be able to use it, but it's ultimately impractical because of the risks, none of which exist for priming sugar (bad idea). I would save it and use it in a brew. |
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May 2 |
answered | Aggressive foam from Keg |
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Mar 28 |
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About going BIAB Sorry, I still think this is a bad answer. The question does not specify a style - yours does - but you're not answering your question, so your answer to this question should not be within the boundaries of your earlier question. This question asks how big of a pot you need and you do not need a 10 gallon pot to brew a 5 gallon batch of beer. I've brewed great, all grain BIAB beer in a 6 gallon pot - and I only boiled about 3.5 gallons and added water later, so I really only needed a 5 gallon pot! |
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Mar 28 |
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About going BIAB This just isn't true. It's completely dependent on how much grain you use, so saying "10.5 gallons" makes no sense. You can get by with about 1.25 quarts of water per pound of grain is generally fine in my experience. You don't even need to do a full boil. Using more water can increase your efficiency, but it's not necessary. You can always add some DME if you miss your target OG. You can easily brew a small style like Mild or Bitter with 3-4 gallons of water. Bigger beers need more water. |
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Mar 15 |
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Where are MillerCoors Light Home Draft units available? title isn't really grammatically correct |
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Mar 14 |
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What are the benefits of using brewing sugar over types of sugar? Either way, just make sure you weigh it instead of measuring by volume. The only time I ever had bottle bombs was measuring table sugar by volume! |
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Mar 14 |
suggested | suggested edit on Where are MillerCoors Light Home Draft units available? |
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Mar 14 |
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Marking your brew pot? @jalynn2 Yes, this answer is for cylindrical kettles. Volume conversions for keggles are more complicated. To be really precise with a keggle you would need to know what the height to volume ratio is at multiple levels throughout the kettle, because there are also ribs on the sides of the keg that hold additional liquid, in addition to the domed bottom. There are various posts you can google for for help with the volume of a keggle, but there are different keg sizes and brands (budweiser, miller, sabco, etc.). |
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Feb 27 |
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