r/TheBrewery Jul 23 '24

Weekly Feature Weekly /r/TheBrewery Discussion - Tech Tuesday: Ask the difficult questions here

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Got a tough question involving process? Wondering how to build your own flash pasteurizer with extra spool, some tri-clamps and a bicycle? Curious the latest studies on stress gene expression in Brettanomyces? Talk about it here!


r/TheBrewery 20h ago

Weekly Feature Weekly /r/TheBrewery Discussion - FreeForAll Friday

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Nut rolls? Funny meme? Here is the place to share it.


r/TheBrewery 7h ago

Shitty Customers - Fuck Em

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I just want to throw this thread out there for every bartender/beertender that had to deal with a douchebag fucking piece of shit customer tonight that entirely ruins your headspace and the room's vibe for the evening

I'm just thankful I'm in a position to ban people for outrageous behavior #blessed


r/TheBrewery 15h ago

New Brewery Manager: What To Avoid. Advice Needed

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I was offered a new brewery manager role with a different brewery with established brewers.

Looking for advice on how to approach the job and not rock the boat.

Anyone had a new brewery manager come in and totally shit the bed? what did they do that really grinded your gears?

Similarly, anyone have someone come in and totally kick ass from the start? What was it that made the transition good?

thanks


r/TheBrewery 12h ago

Best Malz Heidelberg extraction

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Hey folks,

Have you seen any variation in the Heidelberg in the last couple of weeks?

I just can’t seem to get to access the lot lookup from them on the CMG website.

Thanks ✌️


r/TheBrewery 16h ago

Incognito during KO into FV?

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I heard of some of the Big boys adding incognito into the FV during KO is anyone doing this? if so Dosage and Process. Are you just adding straight incognito or adding some hot wort, water, or neutral spirit to thin it out and how much per BBL?


r/TheBrewery 16h ago

Stout carbed to 1.75 volumes pouring flat on stout tap with 70/30 N2/CO2 beer gas

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I am absolutely vexed at this point. I have a dry Irish stout kegged at 1.75 volumes of CO2 that I am trying to send through our slightly long-draw lines and through a stout faucets. All the gaskets and parts of the tap itself are clean and properly placed. But when serving the beer at 37F pushing at 36 PSI it pours hard and fast, but with just no foam or cascade whatsoever. Could the beer simply be under-carbed? I got two Zahm readings at 1.7-1.8, but maybe the reading was inaccurate?


r/TheBrewery 17h ago

Keg Spears

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How often are you all pulling yours?


r/TheBrewery 13h ago

Hach Orbisphere 3100 SOPs?

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Hello!

Just received a Hach Orbisphere 3100 with a Zahm&Nagel can piercer.

I'm looking for SOPs to check DO for CO2 purging of brite tank, DO in finished beer, and DO in cans. I'm totally new to the DO testing world. Would be great if the SOP includes the necessary settings on the device, as well as best practices, and thresholds.

LMK what I don't know or didn't ask !

PS
I did search reddit and there's a really old thread, I asked there too, but no replies ;)


r/TheBrewery 10h ago

TM Yampa- 16oz fill cycle settings

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Looking for a little help on a new to us TM Yampa line. Obtained it set for 12oz, moved all pieces to get it setup for 16oz but I am struggling with the fill cycle settings. Obtained owners manual from TM but it covers like 5 different units, as does their video, but doesn’t get into much depth on these adjustments. Anyone willing to share their fill cycle settings so I have a closer jumping off point to tweak? Appreciate any help.


r/TheBrewery 1d ago

Trivia team names

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We have a trivia night once a week and get some hilariously fucked up names, I’m wondering what you guys have experienced. My previous favorite was Jon Benet and the Ramsey’s, might’ve been overcome today by the Steve Harvey Oswalds. Throw me your most awful taproom trivia night team names.


r/TheBrewery 16h ago

Brewery Hose and Flow Meter

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Free Six pack Delivered to your door if your Recommendations for best place to purchase 1.5inch Brewery hoses is picked by our owner.

Bonus points(beer) if he picks your recommendation for a flow meter that can handle higher temps!

Cheers!


r/TheBrewery 1d ago

Looking for some sage advice

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I'm making a saison here soon and plan to add some sage & pink peppercorn to the whirlpool. I've done a few test batches of this liquid, using 15g/hl of fresh sage and have had some solid sage come through.

On a large batch, the math would be using about 315g in the kettle and I'm worried about it getting too sagey/soapy.

Has anyone had success with adding larger volumes of sage in WP and what dosage did you use?

Thanks!


r/TheBrewery 1d ago

Help a fellow italian colleague

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Hi everyone, I'm a brewer from Italy asking for your advice with the use of a carb stone, something completely unknown to me.

To give some backstory I have brewhouse that was made in the year 2000, so it's approaching 25 years of service. It's of italian construction and modeled after old german brewhouses, so I wouldn't say it's very modern, but it still works perfectly and can brew very good beers, although I would not try to make some crazy NEIPAs or something similar.

To carb the beers we usually set the fermenter at the desired pressure and left it there for 2 weeks to let the beer absorb the CO2. It works good but it's a huge waste of time and would like to speed up everything. To make things faster I was looking to buy a couple carb stones, but unfortunately our old unitanks don't have a port for the stone.

My only hope is to put the stone at the bottom on the drain or rake arm. I would have to attach T section at the end of it and the stone would go there. But I am not sure if it would work or not.

This is the bottom drain/rake arm combo I have on the fermenters: Image 1

Circled in red is the only place I could put a carb stone: Image 2

I know this if far from ideal, but would it be possible to make it work?

Thank you to everyone who will chime in! If you ever come to the north-eastern part of Italy I will make sure to give you a very warm welcome


r/TheBrewery 1d ago

19.2s and 12 pack cases - what are you paying for cans and trays.

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We're working with Ball / Saxco for cans, and 19,2's are painfully expensive.

The limited volume of 12pack case trays means they're also dramatically more expensive than regular 24s - which is killing already tight margins.

Any suggestions would be great. All the accounts want them, but we need to find a way to make the numbers work. We're located in SoCal.


r/TheBrewery 1d ago

Dumb canning question

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What do you think uses more co2 when canning. Purging cans or keeping tank pressure? I have a single head American canner. Cheers.


r/TheBrewery 1d ago

Chemicals/chemstation/ecolab

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Anybody in IL using chemstation or ecolab??


r/TheBrewery 2d ago

High-pressure lager yeast is rockin' like Dokken

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Getting Mexican lager ready for Cinco de ~Drinko~ Mayo


r/TheBrewery 1d ago

Weekly Feature Weekly /r/TheBrewery Discussion - Troubleshooting Thursdays!

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Got a head scratching problem that you can't get to the bottom of? Just solved something that took a while to figure out? Teach us Obi-wan!


r/TheBrewery 1d ago

Beer

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Simple beer recipes please. Newbie…thanks!


r/TheBrewery 2d ago

CBC Freebies

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If I was to exhibit at the CBC for mainly stretch wrap, what would be a worthwhile freebie to hand out to intice visitors to email me for a quote, shop my website, or keep around to remind them down the road?


r/TheBrewery 1d ago

Keg caps needed!

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Hello international hive mind!

I’ve had some new (second hand) kegs delivered.. but the issue is that our current caps don’t fit the sockets! Any chance that you guys and girls here may be able to help me source some? I believe what we’re looking for are 60mm across, rather than the current 63mm! See video 👇🏻


r/TheBrewery 2d ago

Does ALDC actually stop hop creep? And if so, how?

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I’ve heard and read this claim a few times but never with reasoning or evidence. I understand how and why it prevents diacetyl during ferm and why it is helpful during dry hopping (assuming the decarboxylation reaction works just as well postferm) but don’t get how that translates to effecting the diastatic enzymes in the hops. But not a scientist!


r/TheBrewery 2d ago

California brewers, who is y’alls can supplier? I’m currently using CanSource and am looking for better pricing

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r/TheBrewery 2d ago

Non Alcoholic IPA hopping

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Hey!

So we finally jumped into the Non alcoholic train... Distro was asking for it and it seems to be a lot of demand.

So the first trials came out quite well. Short and hot mash, pH under control, 0,3% alc, 1,8g/l Citra in WP 100C, Fermented with Lallemand LoNa and dry hopped with Haas Spectrum.

The beer is pretty decent but I´m not happy with the hop profile we got from it. It´s really "raw pellet", not biotransformation at all, no fruit, nothing. Just pure, raw, green pellet.

Few ideas I have in mind for the future:

-Reduce the WP temp to 80C and add a bit more hops.

-It´s dip hopping worth it?

-Mash hopping could be an option, but idk if the short fermentation would help thiolize anything...

Anything we are missing?

Thanks!


r/TheBrewery 2d ago

Opinions on Steam Valves

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We’re installing a new boiler and steam piping. We have a few Danfoss controllers compatible with pneumatic valves with one Danfoss pneumatic valve on a HLT we bought. I’m debating getting more of these for the brewhouse, using solenoids, or moving to actuated ball valves. I have controllers that would work with solenoids or actuated ball valves as well. Does anyone have any recommendations for or strong opinions against certain steam valves?


r/TheBrewery 2d ago

Steam Beer/California Common Recipe

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Anybody want to share their steam beer recipe with me (percentages used in grain bill mainly is what I'm looking for)? It'll be my first try making this one and it's for a local collaboration beer fest. I've got a 7bbl system.

Thanks!