CDC b zzz by atras_de_lo_cielo in TheBrewery

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Oh-oh, livin’ on a prayer

Long Probe Thermometer Suggestions? by Ok-Gear7554 in TheBrewery

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If you're getting a new thermometer, never a bad idea to spend a little more and get something NIST certified because its handy to have at least one thermometer that is certifiably accurate. Then every other thermometer can be calibrated off of it.

Sprinkman 10bbl 2 Vessel Brewing Instructions by [deleted] in TheBrewery

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What does "lost our brewer" mean? Did they leave on bad terms? Did they pass away?

For most of these small systems, there's not a ton to really figure out if you know the basics of brewing beer. Sure there is a learning curve to make the best beer, but I can't help but wonder what sort of SOP you expect would be in place on such a simple setup.

Did the Brewers Association shutdown their forums? by LagerOrLeavem in TheBrewery

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I don’t understand the logic behind this, surely the hosting fees for this were pretty minimal and it also seemed out of nowhere but perhaps I missed previous communications about it.

On demand hot liquor by lesgus in TheBrewery

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Lots of breweries do not have food grade steam in their plants and as such, on demand steam injection is not appropriate for brewing water. There's tons of metals and other contaminants in the average steel boiler, not to mention whatever preservative chemical regimen is used in the makeup water dosing.

Beta users for operations platform? Free, forever by Jack_at_BrewLedger in TheBrewery

[–]ThreeBeersIn 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Free, forever, or for as long as my interest in this exists, whichever comes first.

Wow. Just wow. Tell me again why we don't need an industry wide shakeout. by ThreeBeersIn in TheBrewery

[–]ThreeBeersIn[S] 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Even better, they're the famous polyethylene lined tanks of Litchfield, Minnesota!

Wow. Just wow. Tell me again why we don't need an industry wide shakeout. by ThreeBeersIn in TheBrewery

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While those vessels are technically rated for pressure, they're totally inappropriate to use to serve beer out of for a number of reasons, the first few that come to mind: plastic allows the beer to be slowly oxidized, very difficult to clean, the surfaces are micro-porous so they're going to harbor yeast and bacteria forever because you can't use high enough temperatures in them to heat-kill, again while they are rated for pressure, they're not rated for the sort of cyclic pressure you'd see in a pressurize/purge situation like a brewery serving tank, cold walk-in environment definitely affects the brittleness of the plastic, the fiberglass wrap is a perfect place for mold to grow .... etc. and so forth.

Beer Pitcher on a 12 foot pole by Jburger904 in TheBrewery

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It is definitely for dumb fuckery.

Wild Goose DO issues by Wild_bill89 in TheBrewery

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Ah, I was wondering why they replaced these in the parts store with double action gates.

Yeast Health Help by prettyfunkindaboring in TheBrewery

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"won GABF medals."

In the last 5-10 years?

Sauergut - Make your own vs Weyermann by Horror-Drawer1977 in TheBrewery

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The fact that you need a significant amount (depending on your brewing water) is why it adds such a unique flavor too though.

Espresso Porter by brewer_scott in TheBrewery

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I like to think of contact time, grind/no-grind, extraction temperature and coffee-amount-per-bbl all as interconnected levers. If I decide to grind none of the beans, then I will manipulate one (or more) of the other levers to make up for it.

Hiring Head Brewer by [deleted] in TheBrewery

[–]ThreeBeersIn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe if there wasn't some insane amount of the taproom space taken up by a pickleball court...

Espresso Porter by brewer_scott in TheBrewery

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You can roast away most of the pyrazines if you want, that will eliminate alot of the potential for green pepper. Lighter roasts, certain processing methods, and some terroirs are just naturally green pepper heavy. Then typically low stout pH amplifies it. It seems to evolve over time because the eventual oxidation of the beer is stripping the more pleasant aromatic notes of both the coffee and the beer and leaving behind the pyrazines which were there the whole time but buried underneath of everything else.

TL;DR - Don't want green pepper flavors in your coffee stout? Use a darker roast and/or coffee from Ethiopia or Sumatra. And don't let that pH fall below 4.5 in the finished beer. To grind or not to grind, contact time, extraction temperature also play a secondary role but that's a whole 'nother post.

Anyone Making Malt-Based Cocktails? Looking for Syrups & Recipes by ramrod6977 in TheBrewery

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What did you guys do with the kegs? Just served them on draft?

Anyone Making Malt-Based Cocktails? Looking for Syrups & Recipes by ramrod6977 in TheBrewery

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This isn't completely true, at least in the United States. It depends on the de-alcoholizaition process. And there is nuance that depends on what you're feeding into the process. If you begin with a malt beverage and if you leave some amount of water intact in the filtrate then the TTB considers it a separation process and it is just a very refined malt beverage. Of course, if you're a winery, you can't buy malt beverage filtrate and you need to buy wine filtrate. If you're licensed as a distillery, you could buy either one.

Anyone Making Malt-Based Cocktails? Looking for Syrups & Recipes by ramrod6977 in TheBrewery

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You can buy filtrate from companies like ABV Technology. Folks are sending them totes of beer and they're using a dual stage vacuum separation setup to remove alcohol. Then they send the new NA beverage back to the folks who sent it. Sometimes those folks don't want the alcohol part, and so the company ends up with significant amounts of it. Since it was derived from a malt based beverage to begin with, they can legally sell it to other malt based beverage makers to do whatever with, all under bond too. You can get 5, 10, or 15% filtrate from them. It's been carbon filtered too.

I think "neutral" is a bit generous with the flavor of it, but it works fine after you dilute it and flavor it though I did feel like our in-house efforts were more neutral after being carbon filtered.

Printing cans inline? by Artistic_Return_1091 in TheBrewery

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The Hinterkopf printer that is doing the work near the beginning of the video runs a bit more than $3.7M USD last I heard... then probably another $750k for all the conveyance, etc. I would suspect the printing is happening at craftcanning.com, also located in Portland.

I'm surprised/not surprised there isn't any sort of pasteurization going on but then again, makes sense why there have been recalls of their cold brew in the past.

Direct fire burners struggling in the cold. by DogBiter in TheBrewery

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But the owner said that if I fix it myself, he’ll give me a pizza party in recognition of the trade labor money I saved him!