paul

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PhD student and part-time developer. Member of the New York City Homebrewers Guild. My favorite styles are American ales.

	575 reputation	bio	website	taulpepper.com	visits	member for	1 year, 10 months
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Dec 5	answered	Pot / kettle sizing
Dec 4	awarded	Organizer
Dec 4	revised	Flat beer after priming in a pressure barrel changed 'secondary fermentation' to 'priming in a pressure barrel'
Dec 4	suggested	suggested edit on Flat beer after priming in a pressure barrel
Dec 4	comment	Flat beer after priming in a pressure barrel See my answer below, but as a side note this is not generally considered "secondary fermentation". It is technically a second fermentation stage, but it's usually called priming, cask/bottle conditioning or just cask/bottle /natural carbonation. Secondary fermentation is an optional step where you transfer the beer to a second fermentation vessel to remove some of the yeast and trub and enhance the clarity of the beer.
Dec 4	answered	Flat beer after priming in a pressure barrel
Nov 20	comment	Where to buy an immersion heater? Yes, the Watts is the amount of power they use/put out, which translates into how much heat they put out. You may be able to find them at Home Depot, but their inventory tends to vary from store to store. Good luck with the wiring!
Nov 16	comment	Where to buy an immersion heater? You're right I didn't realize you said 'cooler', people usually use steel or aluminum with attached heating elements. I revised my answer to include lower power elements.
Nov 16	revised	Where to buy an immersion heater? updated to add additional info re: comment
Nov 15	answered	Where to buy an immersion heater?
Sep 26	comment	Wild fermentation with improvised equipment, any advice? When you make cider with wild yeast, I think the yeast lives on the skin of the apples. If the apples are pressed with the skin on, then they ferment very well without adding any additional yeast. Maybe if you left the skin on the soursop and pressed them, you would have had more luck.
Sep 26	comment	How to clean the CO2 line? @baka This should be in an answer
Sep 21	accepted	Why did beer get into my gas lines from my corny keg?
Sep 21	accepted	Could non-alkalized cocoa powder cause astringency in a chocolate stout?
Sep 14	comment	Could non-alkalized cocoa powder cause astringency in a chocolate stout? There's no funk and I'm pretty sure it's not an infection, although I did not boil the chocolate - just added it directly to the primary as recommended in the recipe for Jamil's chocolate hazelnut porter. Base recipe was a partial mash extract brew (McQuaker's oatmeal stout). About 5 lbs of grain + 5.4 lbs LME at 155°F, so there was no sparge and pretty low temps, so I think tannin extraction was unlikely, but I suppose it's possible.
Sep 13	comment	Could non-alkalized cocoa powder cause astringency in a chocolate stout? It actual got more astrigent with time I think - it was brewed over 6 months ago.
Sep 13	revised	Could non-alkalized cocoa powder cause astringency in a chocolate stout? added 13 characters in body
Sep 12	comment	Could non-alkalized cocoa powder cause astringency in a chocolate stout? There is no lactose in the recipe, that's why I picked it. Oatmeal stout - not sweet or milk stout.
Sep 12	asked	Could non-alkalized cocoa powder cause astringency in a chocolate stout?
Sep 11	comment	Why did beer get into my gas lines from my corny keg? I think something like this is what happened. I later realized that one keg was empty and when I opened the tap to pour a beer, CO2 and a little beer sprayed out violently. I think this spray was a release of CO2 from the keg without beer, which lowered the pressure in the keg and caused beer to flow through to the other keg. I'm not sure which keg it came from, because I do have a carbonation stone with a tube in one keg, but I checked it and it looked clean - didn't seem like beer got sucked into the tube.