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Programmer (currently C# in the backup industry)
Passionate about: the interface of genetics and computation, climbing, telemark skiing, dogs.
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23h |
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\[WIKI] Improving Your Brewing Significantly IMO, this question should be separated by extract vs all-grain brewing. Yeah, there is some overlap (fermentation, yeast, chilling) but there is a lot of non-overlap... |
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23h |
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Flat beer. Not enough priming sugar? Priming is best done by weight. What are those volumes of? Presumably water with corn sugar dissolved? What concentration? Additionally, you don't specify the time you allowed for bottle conditioning and the temperature of the bottles during conditioning? |
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Jan 16 |
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Good Way to Stuff Dry Hops into Dry Hop Bag Hmm, I just put my hops straight in. Why bag it? |
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Dec 18 |
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How much torque is required to operate a barley crusher? Mdma, I'm a little confused. If torque is force x displacement vector, don't we need to consider the radius of the object, not just the number of rotations per second? |
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Dec 13 |
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How much torque is required to operate a barley crusher? Brewchez, I haven't found the Barley Crusher people to be very responsive to previous questions. And as mdma says, I may not have posed a question with an especially definitive answer. |
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Dec 3 |
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Wet Crushing Grain Wow. This is involved. How wet do you find the grain is with this process? |
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Oct 20 |
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Partial Mash Extract twang Brewchez : why do you say this isn't an extract issue? |
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Oct 10 |
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How do I keep yeast from a strain that I've bought? I've kept started yeast in a capped growler (previously sani'd etc) in a fridge for over 6 months and restarted it fine. |
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Oct 10 |
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What software do most brewers use? I'm surprised everyone is raving about the scaling feature on Beersmith. Unless I'm missing something, it seems like it scales incorrectly on custom equipment or with custom efficiency. |
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Oct 4 |
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Racking a carbonated beer from a keg back to the fermenter Way too late to help, but I wonder whether carbonating would change the pH in a way the yeast would not like... |
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Oct 4 |
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Can weighting dry hop bag with metal objects impact the flavor? You can find glass marbles on amazon or probably some place like bed bath and beyond. Don't get painted ones obviously. Let us know how your beer tastes. |
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Aug 10 |
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harmful mold growing in fermentation freezer? Great additional detail on dust mask ratings... |
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Apr 23 |
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Estery fruit flavors in my vanilla bourbon imperial porter Graham and Ell, thanks for the discussion. I'm going to have to do a 10g side by side split now. Interesting that this question generated more comments/discussion than 'answers'. |
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Apr 12 |
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Estery fruit flavors in my vanilla bourbon imperial porter Graham, I disagree about staying in primary for two to three weeks. Many routine recipes are improved by getting your beer into secondary. Once fermentation is primarily complete (low activity), there is more benefit to getting off the yeast cake than to leaving it in primary. Sitting on the yeast cake can result in off flavors from autolyzation. |
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Mar 2 |
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Very long primary in plastic If you are a beginner brewer and go with PET, I would strongly consider reading the 'cleaning and care' instructions on the Better Bottle website before you buy them. The limitations on the amount of exposure to StarSani and PBW that these bottles can take are very restrictive. When I was a new brewer, my brew buddies and I cracked one with excessive sanitation. The other two from the same vintage are still intact but show signs of cracking. Glass rocks! |
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Feb 29 |
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Very long primary in plastic High-risk way to start, that's all I'm saying. I share your tastes. Plus if you make 'regular' beer, you can make your friends drink your mistakes. Good luck! |
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Feb 29 |
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Very long primary in plastic Perhaps a dumb question but if you just got into homebrewing, maybe high gravity aged ales is not the place to hone the craft... |
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Feb 29 |
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Is beer bad for dogs? Ok, I don't want to be responsible for your dog's death but the amount of chocolate in a 'chocolate' beer is probably not a concern. A mid-size dog can ingest 'some' chocolate. Check out the theobromine (the toxic part of chocolate, found in other foods as well) page on wikipedia for some ideas about dosage (LD50, TDLO)en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobromine_poisoning |
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Feb 29 |
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Hops in the compost? When ScottInNH says hops are really bad for dogs, he's on the right point but I'd like to add an emphasis that the evidence so far (though limited) is that hops can cause malignant hyperthermia in some dogs which leads to cardiac arrest and death. The reports I read didn't specify an 'LD50' but had anecdotes reporting ~1 oz of spent hops as fatally toxic. Consider your neighbor's dogs as well please if your compost help is openly available. I might point out that the amount of hops you are putting into compost is really irrelevant to 'eco' concerns given the toxicity concerns. Toss 'em. |
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Feb 17 |
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Home Brewing with Soft Water Mdma, do you have a softener? I do and have alternated between sodium (for cost) and potassium (to eliminate the sodium) and no softening. Ultimately, I've settled on no softening but I will tell you that potassium softening does not have the adverse health effects of sodium and doesn't convey a salty taste. Re the downvote: I gave him a few pieces of advice that you did not that are valid regardless of our disagreement about hardness: ph is important; RO systems are now affordable; testing for ph and alkalinity can be tested affordably. |
