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| bio | website | twitter.com/markskar |
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| location | Portsmouth, NH | |
| age | 36 | |
| visits | member for | 3 years, 5 months |
| seen | Jul 7 '11 at 3:27 | |
| stats | profile views | 30 |
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Jun 3 |
answered | What is a session beer? |
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May 28 |
answered | The move from kit brewing to all grain brewing |
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May 18 |
answered | Is there such a thing as malt-free beer? |
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May 18 |
answered | Did I Break My Airlock? |
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May 12 |
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Is there a more durable alternative to a plastic auto-siphon? You can achieve this by sticking a tube all the way to the bottom of a bucket, letting the level rise to the top, and then coiling it downward around the outside edges of the bucket. If you close off the tube completely full, then attach it to your racking cane (which should at this point be in your beer), then it will empty out the tube and get enough power to pull the beer into your secondary and/or bottling bucket (or keg, for that matter). |
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May 12 |
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Is there a more durable alternative to a plastic auto-siphon? For best results, you need for your siphon tube to be full of liquid (sanitizer) without any air bubbles. Air bubbles in the siphon tube can lead to "hiccups" that will prevent the siphon action from starting. Yo |
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May 12 |
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What can happened in a wheat beer with a lot of foam? added 42 characters in body |
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May 12 |
answered | What can happened in a wheat beer with a lot of foam? |
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May 4 |
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Wyeast 1187 Ringwood Failure What was the date on the package? If it was an old pack (packaged greater than 6 months ago), or wasn't stored in ideal conditions, you could have had low viability. |
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May 4 |
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Wyeast 1187 Ringwood Failure Ah yes, true, I forgot about that. Many of my early brews had that "green apple" flavor, and overpitching would explain it. However, it still isn't as bad as an underpitched batch. There is nothing more annoying that trying to brew a big beer and have it peter out at 5% with a final gravity of 1.045. The cloying sweetness of an under-attenuated beer is disgusting and unbearable. That said, one should use a pitching calculator and use the correct amount of yeast--provided that you take into account yeast viability (and even then the best you can do is estimate). |
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May 4 |
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Dispensing beers at two different pressures? deleted 1 characters in body |
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May 4 |
answered | Homebrewing: Decoction Mashing |
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May 4 |
answered | Dispensing beers at two different pressures? |
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May 4 |
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Wyeast 1187 Ringwood Failure . . . Unless you mean overpitching to the point that you lose all your beer to blowoff, but that would require a HUGE amount of yeast. I have to disagree with this answer. |
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May 4 |
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Wyeast 1187 Ringwood Failure Not true. If viability for the smack packs or the dry yeast was 100%, it "might" be enough for a 5 gallon batch of a somewhat low gravity. However, since this is almost never the case, you should always do a starter with Smack Packs or any other liquid yeast and it doesn't hurt to use an extra pack of dry yeast. Overpitching is NOT as dangerous as underpitching. Underpitching can lead to an under-attenuated batch and/or stuck fermentation. The only real harm in over-pitching is lower ester production, which can be a good thing in many cases. . . |
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Apr 30 |
answered | Yeast Contact Time Experiment Results |
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Apr 30 |
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How do you degas an empty Sanke Keg? What do the up votes mean?? Brewchez is answering his own question. If someone is upvoting this as the best way to do it, they should comment here. Otherwise it just looks weird...just sayin'... |
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Apr 28 |
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How do you degas an empty Sanke Keg? added 115 characters in body |
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Apr 28 |
answered | How do you degas an empty Sanke Keg? |
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Apr 22 |
awarded | Commentator |
