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Hi Everyone,

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I have been homebrewing for a few years now and have found this reddit to be an amazing resource. Each year I try to focus on something new in my process, and for 2020 I want to figure out the cold break/chilling part of me brew day. Based on other threads and xbeeriments I have not been sweating what goes in to fermentation, just pulling all the proteins and hop matter in to my carboy and letting it fall out during fermentation. However, I am starting to wonder if this is a bad practice.

One of the reasons I embraced the philosophy of pulling it all in to the fermenter is that I have never had much luck getting everything to settle at the bottom of the kettle, s

Hi Everyone,

I am starting in on a large batch of kombucha, ~5gallons. I have a kegging system I use for homebrew beer etc. already. I am wondering since I don't intend to do 2F (I would pref to go straight to keg with the bulk of the batch) does anyone had experience on how to flavor this quantity? I am wondering if I should just put a bunch in to keg, bag some fruit, let it do a short 2F at room temp and then finish off the carb in the keggerator, or if it would be better just to let the batch go more sour than usual and blend it down with some juice to balance it.

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also wondering, for a 5g batch, how much do you reserve as starter for the next round? I am guessing somewher

Hey All,

I have a kegerator now going on 12-18 months, has more or less always worked fine, but today one of the handle was super stiff... I thought maybe because I had set the fridge colder to lager a beer as well. I was able to work it open pretty easily (the line was frozen, it was a seltzer tap, but once I massaged it some it started to flow). Problem was, once I tried to close the tap, it was extremely stuck in the open position... i had to force it back quite hard, and flow continued even from the closed position.

I know a fix is unlikely, I am already ordering a replacement, but wondering if anyone has experienced this and know what could cause a relatively lightly used tap (stainl

What's up everyone

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Did a brew today using a new hop spider... it was too large and sat on the bottom of my kettle during the boil. Did not think this would be an issue, but of course after chilling and getting the wort in to the carboy, I found a medium-large blotch of burnt hop matter thoroughly adhered to the bottom of the kettle. After scrubbing, soaking, scrubbing, re-soaking, and scrubbing more (with one of those microfiber scrubber sponge things) I have removed maybe 1/3 the burned stuff. The remainder seems pretty stubborn and I am out of ideas to remove it without spending many many days of cycling through soaking and scrubbing.

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I am wondering:

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I am relatively new to deck tracker, (started with 1.52). I see 1.53 has released as my 1.52 is no longer working. I am downloading the new build from git and it is still installing as 1.52. How can I update?

Hey All,

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I am sure most are aware of this deck, especially with the GP results in the book and lists making top 8 in each, but wanted to share a 5-0 video series I made over the weekend playing the GerryT recommended build of the deck.

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Rd 1 - https://youtu.be/eWGwRUCvEB0

Rd 2 - https://youtu.be/Kyy2qULNZzc

Rd 3 - https://youtu.be/tBlNxmJ5Ftk

Rd 4 - https://youtu.be/5mgSP-uesZI

Rd 5 - https://youtu.be/Ca03MGuUFlY

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The deck is pretty cheap wildcard wise, running only 8 rare lands (and hone

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I have been brewing for almost 4 years now but have never attempted a beer with brett in it. I would like to do a short (3-6) month mixed fermentation brett saison to be ready for the spring. I have a few questions for any that have experience home brewing styles like this:

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-For doing a brett beer, is it ok to keep at room temp (and clear out my ferment fridge to start something else while it ages)? How sensitive to temp swings is it?

-Does it matter greatly pitching the brett with the yeast, or is it better to wait until primary ferment is done?

-Is a 5g plastic carboy appropriate/OK for doing a 3-6 month ferment like this (I am afraid of glass af

Hey All,

I want to brew a nice maple beer for the fall and have a line on some good, high quality syrup. Thinking to go the most obvious route, brown ale or stout (but not BA, I want something tasty I can keg up).

I've never brewed with syrup, looking for any ideas on quantities to use in the boil vs. how much to add when kegging, style preferences, recipes etc. Basically hook my up with some ideas since I rarely brew darker beers and want to give it a shot to make use of a nice ingredient.

Cheers!

Hey Everyone,

I have a 2 tap kegerator system, but because I only have space for brewing 5 gallons at a tab, I have taken to using the 2nd keg + tap for non-beer liquid. For a long time, I had that line reserved for house made ginger ale or ginger flavored kombucha.

No sour flavors from the kombucha, but I get a pretty distinct ginger flavor from the soda water I have in there now. Any ideas on if this will go away over time, or how to cleanse it? I have thoroughly soaked the keg + line with PDW. The keg itself didn't have a ginger odor, so I am not sure if the keg is the culprit, the lines, or both.

Any thoughts would be appreciated!

Went 5-0 with UB midrange, recorded one of the games this AM. Will play more with this deck and share a full 5 win run with it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNKVQeRcPlU

The list is from Usama Sajjad, who made top 16 with it over the weekend at GP Copenhagen.

https://www.youtube.com/redirect?redir_token=tIGi9araTMBUSS1DPEp5bqrB-lB8MTUyODgyNjEzOUAxNTI4NzM5NzM5&v=dNKVQeRcPlU&q=https%3A%2F%2Fmagic.wizards.com%2Fen%2Fevents%2Fcoverage%2Fgpcop18%2F9-16-decklists-2018-06-10&event=video_description

I don't 100% know the sideboarding, pretty much against any midrange/control matchup (the bulk of what I was paired with in this run) I was bringing in the Gearhulks + relevant spells

It feels like there are many expectations for what is coming in the economy post (will it ever get here?) but there is one topic I am most interested in hearing about: WotC's vision for the launch economy.

We are looking at ~8 sets live when the game goes in to open beta and all us closed beta players get our accounts wiped. That is a LOT of cards to collect all at once and feels like it will present huge problems for a mass of incoming players that are going to want to try the game out for free. Even spenders run the risk of being overwhelmed. I am hoping they will at least start to message some approach to this, such as:

-A more robust starting collection (in the form of more fully reali