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Could a beer brewery ferment a cider from concentrate to get around this? Or, are we looking at a rubbish end product?

Do you know if they use the same equipment? I'm trying to work out whether there's a potential for cross-contamination that might prevent this from being a feasible idea.

Well why don't cider makers also make beer then, then if that's the case?

Let me put it another way, all those breweries with their own tap rooms. They often have a guest cider on because they don't make one themselves. That's evidence of demand. Are they not tempted to make their own or is there a technical reason why they don't?

But that doesn't explain why you don't see breweries fermenting cider. If it were just down to sales figures then cidery's wouldn't open in the first place.

Why don't you ever see breweries also making cider? Surely their fermenters are perfectly capable and the equipment is relatively interchangeable? Is there something I'm missing?

I think it dispenses half pints in each pull if that's what you mean. I'm trying to find a replacement pump diaphram for it. Do you know where I can get one?

Can anyone identify the make and model of this?

I wasn't talking about the Tilt device. I was talking about the tilt metric on the iSpindel.

The tilt metric seems to be a more reliable indicator of gravity when at times it takes so long for each gravity point to drop. Does anyone prefer to use the tilt as a more reliable indicator that fermentation is still underway?

Why would the yeast be stressed in its current setup? I'm trying to be relatively optimistic that I can get it going again, rather than trying from scratch for the third time.

I see. So is it ok to just add the nutrients or will I need to pitch another pack of yeast?

It breaks up the gluten protein mesh.

I know how brewers' clarex or clarity can help prevent chill hazy, make the beer gluten-free and increase shelf life, but are there any beer types which it can't be used? I would be interested in using it in hazy or raw beers like NEIPA's or IPA's for its shelf-life increaseability but I'm...