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Interesting. Most people start their brewing with bottle carbonation. Does that mean you've only made still beers when bottling or kegged with force carbonation? (The point being that you can pressure ferment at the end, using residual sugars to achieve a carbonation target, i.e. spunding. It'd...

I don't have a single, specific example, but the benefit of ESP8266 is that you can program it in the Arduino environment. If you google "arduino pid brew controller" (without quotes) there are countless examples. Arduino also has multiple PID libraries (not brewing-specific) available. ESP8266...

If you have the benefit of some electronic know-how, a $5 ESP8266, a 16x2 LCD and a few buttons could interface with the existing hardware and give you full PID and WiFi for less than $20 outlay...

Would love to try it, but in 500g packs, I'll have to give it a miss.

Damn, this thread has really gone from level 15 to 99 in the past few weeks. I'm not sure if it's sheer luck or just a benefit of doing 8.5 L batches, but the false bottom has done such an excellent job in containing hot break and hops that it's all I use – no helix coil, no bazooka, no hop...

I'm intrigued by the dry hop device for fermzilla, though I don't have a FermZilla. Is there any possibility or plan for making this for corny kegs? Perhaps by making a custom corny keg lid that has either a 3/4" BSP or PCO1881 fitting on it? The DIY option at this stage would be to buy a...

It's probably a SPDT switch, used as a SPST. SPDT are more common, and can be wired as SPST by just using the middle terminal + one of the outer terminals.

The short answer is that it doesn't matter. Plain white sugar is the cheapest. Most priming calculators will help you adapt from dextrose to table sugar (sucrose) for the tiny difference in CO2 production.

You definitely can. When I bought grains pre-crushed on a per-recipe basis, I used to freeze each bag for 72h to kill eggs from borers/weevils (all grain will have some amount of tiny eggs). From a staling perspective, it probably doesn't matter too much (especially at this time of year), but I...

Damn, these are tempting – especially the smaller 1 gallon ones. So far, I've done experimental split batches in 2 L milk bottles and rigged up a siphon tube and pushed the beer out with CO2, but it's leaky and messy. Having a small fermenter with a tap would be awesome. Might buy a few of them.

It's similarly clunky to an Inkbird, but not complete arse like an STC1000. The good news is that once you set up a recipe or two, you can pretty much use it for all your brews. It is amazing that there are 8 pushbuttons available, but they still managed to make it fairly arduous to program...

Ah, now I understand. Fortunately, if you burst carb at 30-40 psi, it's actually much easier to see or hear a leak than at usual serving pressures. Starsan or detergent around the connections will bubble like crazy at the smallest leak!

Wow, that's impressive, clickeral. I thought mine was bad enough, having to rummage through between 25-150 g of most hops, with just Warrior and Citra bought in 500 g bulk packets. Let me know if you have a better solution than just having it all in a freezer drawer for the rummaging, ha.

Bumping this a little while on with some more findings. Despite best efforts to consolidate my inventory, I since acquired Lemondrop and Motueka. The former I liked in hop water, but hated in a single-hop NEIPA (tasted like soap or chemicals or something). The latter, I've yet to use. I still...

I suggest pseudo bulk-priming instead. It's easier (IMO) and has less risk of infection, oxidation, and less clean up than traditional bulk priming. Back when I bottled, I mixed 19 g of sugar with water to an end-volume of 100 mL (or 38 g to 200 mL or whatever was needed), and microwaved it...

Could you elaborate on this? I've re-read it several times and still don't see why it would be a problem.

Inkbird is great! Yes please!

If I went back to bottling, I think I'd go to PET bottles instead of glass. You can squeeze all the air out when capping, allowing the CO2 to reinflate the bottle. Gash on YouTube did a classic vid on squeeze vs. no squeeze with beer turning brown just from the tiny headspace in a bottle. It's...

I definitely don't enjoy putting in and taking out the false bottom. Lots of unpleasant scratching and bending.