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I've got one of these: https://cheekypeakbrewery.com.au/nano-quick-seal-dump-valve-304ss-3-piece-ball-valve-set They also just sell the inner bulkhead part: https://cheekypeakbrewery.com.au/1-2-bspp-male-to-female-new-bulk-head-fitting this goes on the inside, then a ball valve goes on the...

My point was more general i guess. If you've already got the LA3 then keep going, but maybe try out the verdant at some point for comparison. I expect there to be a bit more research done in the topic of hazy strains to see what else can be used so who knows what everyone's fave hazy strain is...

Yeah, that's true, I don't mind the apricot though! I found normal LA3 a bit underwhelming, but I wasn't underpitching as much as i was with the verdant. Haze amount & stability, biotransformation levels, temperature ranges and pitching rate all seem close enough to me.

Have you tried barkeepers' friend? I just found they sell it at the supermarket and does a great job on stainless, bit more elbow grease than the BS remover though

Here's a couple of liquids I just enjoy using and are different enough from what you can get in dry form to make them worth having and culturing: WLP860 / L17 Harvest for lagers WLP644 Sacc Trois for hazies and anything you want to throw lots of pineapple and mango, lower temps also works for...

Yep MHB I meant Geraniol not linalool, brain and fingers not connected properly, oops. Citra is high in both geraniol and linalool

The easiest thing to do is just to treat it as any other malt marked as a Pale, Ale, Maris Otter, Pale Ale or 2-row malt. They're all pretty much interchangeable. Well, maris otter is a bit different as it's a low protein heritage variety that has a bigger flavour impact than some other malts...

Magnum doesn't really work as an aroma hop, we did a big experiment in our club with dry hopping Coors with lots of different hops, Magnum just tasted woody and bitter, not a nice hop flavour. Bravo is considered a bittering hop but it's great as an aroma hop or dry hop as well, particularly...

You can top crop k-97 too, there's no shortage of it being a true top cropper. Just get a sanitised spoon and scrape some off the top & store in a sanitised jar for later. Top cropping helps a bit with getting rid of the massive krausen too, just don't take too much of it or else there won't be...

Yep that's my understanding - verdant were serially repitching london ale iii - some way along the line the yeast must have had a mutation that allowed it to be dried successfully. I heard that there was issues trying to get london ale iii itself to dry. I can't imagine it's mutated that much...

It's good. In a clean beer it tastes a lot like a cleaner version of Coopers Pale Ale yeast, not a bad thing, but not exactly a crisp lager. You might be able to play around with pH, pitch rates and temp to get something crisper than mine, I think I underpitched a bit by just pitching about 3g...

Similar thing on this topic... could you make a version of the carb cap that has a male PCO 1881 thread - so you could put it into the other side on the PCO1881 x PCO1881 ball valve as a standard gas disconnect after you finish dry hopping, e.g. for then transferring. That way you'd never have...

Naah, there's nothing wrong with the Dupont yeast at all. I'm not sure why it has a rep for being finicky if you handle it properly and run the ferment on the warm side. A few commercial brewers do an open fermentation with it as anecdotally it's less likely to stall with an open ferment / less...

I use a blowoff tube rather than an airlock when that happens. Less chance of things like a clogged airlock. just sanitise a piece of pvc hose and then run it into a glass, jar or beaker of water.

If the yeast was a bit old then two packs for a cold pitch might not have been enough. This is a good calculator to work out how much yeast you need: https://www.brewersfriend.com/yeast-pitch-rate-and-starter-calculator/ - use something like Pro Brewer 1.5 as the setting. E.g. with that setting...