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Wow... That's healthy for a lager!

Go HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCTKHCYY0IQ&hd=1 oh yeahhh!!!

long arse brew day today! The Whales brewed what looks like about 85 gallons of Belgian Dark Strong Ale, plus we collected another 14 gallons of 2nd runnings and boiled that down to roughly 10 gallons for a one day grand total of 95 gallons of brew!! We're looking at 9-9.6% ABV after the...

Boom... blast from the past thread revivallll

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Great thread about CdT. The WHALES will be using one of our 60 gallon Lairds Applejack barrels to produce a batch of Sour Belgian Dark Strong with Cherries. Lots of great info in here regarding souring, which is my primary concern. I plan on brewing 80 gallons, resulting in ~70-75 gallons of...

nothing you can do... drink and enjoy

technically a bottle bomb but could just be a weak bottle? Who knows its glass...

Well figure out how much sugar you have in your volume of grain. Take 65% of that sugar out for the first beer. Then figure 15-20% is left for the 2nd beer. Unless you are making a 12-13% monster brew you will probably need to spike the 2nd beer up a little. I add in some extra grain and let...

Because of the volume of grain, its usually not very practical to do a second sparge. You'd end up with way too much wort to boil off. Just heat up your ~3 gallons of sparge water to boiling and put it in, mix it up, vorlauf, and drain it. I would plan the recipe around 65% efficiency. I've...

Yeah... that recipe was totally off the wall.

I've done it before and it came out fine

Ya... Guess the OG.

What's the deal with this chamber? Don't over think it too!!! Fridge off CL, temp controller, done. You can have even more awesome projects if you don't over complicate them...

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast21sep_1/ Lower cell count could be contributed to faster fermentation times due to evenly distributed yeast. The thinking is some of the yeast becomes dormant and falls in the cake. They reduce or stop consumption of sugar. Other...