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This is insanely awesome… Would you mind providing a parts list??

Old thread, but in case anyone else is looking to do a commercial keg coupler ball lock conversion as I was, I thought I’d share my experience. @F00b4r is right, all the direct ball lock converters I could find are for American style 5/8” NTP fittings, which won’t help you if you have a UK...

27 L NEIPA Total 5376 L 1.49 cords (US)

So that was Thursday, and my god this yeast is speedy! Pressure was starting to build within two hours of pitching, and now two days in it’s pretty much done! 😁

While I waited for the Elvis Juice to drop bright I got started on something new… 2.69*10^25 (c cubed) NEIPA 29 L — 1.057 — IBU: 50 — SRM: 6 5.2 kg Maris Otter 1.6 kg wheat malt 1.6 kg jumbo rolled oats 200 g rice hulls 10 g phosphate buffer 4 g calcium chloride 2 g calcium sulphate Mashed at...

And in go the dry hops! Tasty tasty! 😋

It’s a pretty simple (and cheap) build if you don’t mind a couple of hours work. I used this guide - mine gets 30 L of boiling wort down to a few degrees above groundwater temperature inside of 10 minutes! https://byo.com/project/build-a-counterflow-wort-chiller/

Agreed with all of the above. Esters are generally caused by yeast stress: temperature is a big factor, but in your case my money would be on nutrient deficiency. The massive amount of yeast in there by your third brew are all going to be trying to actively grow as well as just chewing through...

This is molecular grade, so yes.

There we go! :)

Just to be clear, you’re setting up your new fermentation directly on the settled yeast from the previous brew?

Sounds like a plan - and that’s precisely the setup I use for adding finings so it’s all good to go! Got the inkbird and heat mat set to 23C so will see if things turn around in the next 24 hours then will hit it with some DAP and vits.

Some are more sensitive to pressure than others. I’ve not had any trouble with m44 in the past, but some, like the DuPont Saison strain, are famous for their pressure stalls.

Thanks for this. My Tilts are generally ok with pressure and temperature changes; heavy krausen can indeed cause problems though. Regarding smoothing of the data, I generally don’t like to. You get a prettier picture, but you do lose some granularity of the data. Hydrometer read is in agreement...

This. As the saying goes “cleanliness is next to drunkenness…”

Agreed - following on from Marshall Schott’s Short and Shoddy series I rarely boil for more that 30 minutes now.

Sounds tasty! I doubt you’ll need the black malt though - you should be pretty inky with just the carafa and roasted barley. Talking of which, you may want to cold steep your darker grains. It will cut out a lot of the harshness that they can bring to the party (especially in a hot mash), which...

So I’ve not seen this before with this yeast, but looks like my fermentation is stalling… I’ll push the temperature up to 23 C and drop the pressure down to .5 ba which should get it going again, but has anyone else see this with M44?

That’s amazing! Very jealous!

To be honest I prep my starter culture growth medium more out of habit than anything else, but freezer space is also at a premium!