How to Deal with Beer Stone, Adding Minerals to Water, & Dry Hopping & Cold Crashing - Ep.381

Happy May, my friend!
The year is flying by but we're slowing things down to have some fun and talk about our favorite stuff on this week's episode of our Homebrew Happy Hour podcast!... THE home brew #podcast where we answer all of your home brewing questions and discuss anything related to craft beer!
A NOT SO SUBTLE REMINDER:
If you appreciate the things we do here at Homebrew Happy Hour, consider joining our Trub Club! Not only will you be supporting our efforts, but you'll also receive exclusive perks such as HUGE discounts to Kegconnection.com, welcome packs with our merch, discounts to BrewersFriend.com, and lots more! Click the link and join today -- www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=21...
On Today's Show:
How to Deal with Beer Stone Residue in my Kettle, When to Add Minerals to my Brewing Water, & Best Practices for Dry Hopping & Cold Crashing a Batch
00:00:00 - 00:19:36 Sponsors & Small Talk
00:19:37 - 00:22:35 Listener Feedback
00:22:36 - 00:34:56 Dealing with Beer Stone in Kettle
00:34:57 - 00:44:29 Adding Minerals to Brewing Water
00:44:30 - 01:03:05 Dry Hopping & Cold Conditioning Tips
Links for this episode:
Brew Clean: www.kegconnection.com/brew-cl...
Homebrew Kegs: www.kegconnection.com/5-gallo...
Sparkling Mineral Water Pack: www.kegconnection.com/sparkli...
Ultimate Keg Accessory Bundle: www.kegconnection.com/the-ult...
FLOTit 2.0 Floating Dip Tube: www.kegconnection.com/flotit-...
We want to hear from you!
If you have a question that you’d like us to discuss on a future episode, please click on the “Submit a Question” link at the top of our website or you can now call in your questions via our questions hotline @ 325-305-6107 and leave your message after the beep. This is a friendly reminder that, if we choose your voicemail question for a future episode, we give you a $25 gift card to Kegconnection dot com. If you email us, joshua AT homebrewhappyhour DOT com, or text our hotline and I use your textual question on a future episode you still get a $15 gift card to Kegconnection (which I think is still pretty stinking good)!
Let us know what you think and enjoy the show!
cheers,
joshua
-----------------------
www.kegconnection.com/
Each and every episode is made possible by Kegconnection.com! Build the kegerator or keezer of your dreams using Kegconnection.com's unique customizable product options that allows you to get exactly what you need. Kegconnection.com also stocks products and solutions for kegging kits, draft systems, hardware, components, cleaning and much much more. Kegconnection.com has been operating for more than 15 years in the industry and has established expertise and superior customer service. Visit Kegconnection.com and use our promo code HHH to receive 5% off of your order. Even better - join one of the premium tiers in our Trub Club and get up to 12% off your orders! That's Kegconnection.com, promo code HHH or visit HomebrewHappyHour.com/club for more information.
--------------------------
Thank you to our show’s sponsor, Imperial Yeast, for supporting us and the homebrewing community. Learn more about why we LOVE Imperial Yeast by checking out their entire line, available at www.imperialyeast.com/
--------------------------
Thank you to our show’s sponsor, Hops Direct! Family owned and operated, Hops Direct provides a wide variety of hop selection and ships directly to your door. Learn more by visiting hopsdirect.com/?HH...
--------------------------
This episode is brought to you by, Muntons Malts - a company that is passionate about providing premium malts to brewers worldwide. YOU can experience the difference Muntons offers by joining a recipe receiving tier of our Trub Club because every kit that ships out now includes premium Muntons Malt, join at / homebrewhappyhour
--------------------------
Become a Patron! Reminder that these episodes are ultimately made possible because of YOUR support. Consider becoming a member of our TRUB CLUB via our Patreon page and receive perks such as merch, exclusive group access and content, recipes, and some tiers even get monthly recipe kits mailed to you! / homebrewhappyhour
--------------------------

[@apenutz987]

Great episode. Always a great time. Hour flew by. And i am at work. Lol.

[@ELRORRITO1]

Good Morning Señores 🍺 🍻 🍺.
Cheers from Phoenix, AZ.
Sorry caramel machiatto ☕️ n my hand.

[@jimlewis7938]

I heat a few ounces of water and dissolve the salts then stir it in to the full volume of brewing water. I use A 15 gallon RIM system so this is a no sparge system. Getting salts added takes less then 10 minutes and depending on the style can have big impact on bitterness, maltiness, hop aroma, hop flavor, mouth feel, PH and even head retention as you mentioned later
Since Kolsch uses a very soft profile, RO works well but with other styles, I highly recomend adding water chemistry to your brewing routine!
Cheers

[@ianbuchanan9445]

Great episode guys.. I know little late on this... lol. I have also used Bars Keepers Friend to passivate as well.

[@HomebrewHappyHour]

Never too late, my friend. Thank you so much for tuning in!

[@davelee3360]

Great informative show as always
Any chance of sharing the picture of the fermenter?

[@apenutz987]

As a fellow foliclly challenged man, you may want to do no hat in a month with less sun. Lol head sunburns are the worst. Lol

[@mustyditch4703]

Who is the new guy with the smooth head?

[@apack76]

Josh, I think you set a new PR on small talk lol

[@HomebrewHappyHour]

After weeks of basically bragging how I'm getting the small talk done quickly now, I go and do this episode 😂😭