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As it turned out, the starters took off just fine and so did the Old Jubilation fermentation. Wyeast comes through again!
Because if the White Labs vials were different, you'd never know?
And big breweries can brew "craft brews" eg beach bum blonde ale.
In my part of the world Unibroue was bought by Sleemans, which was bought by Sapporo. IMO, you don't buy a brewery like Unibroue (or Magic Hat) and start monkeying with their product to push out fizzy yellow water. There's enough of that on the shelves already. A big brewery buys an established small 'craft' brewery to get their foot in the door of the fastest growing segment of the industry.
I would expect NAB to take a hands-off approach when it comes to daily operations.
If it's the same beer, why isn't it craft beer any longer? It's the same beer!Not that I think Magic Hat is really doing anything for craft beer, but that's a little bit naive.
Here's a couple things to consider: I used a CFC for several yeast before actually switching to an IC. I like the IC a hell of a lot better. First, it is way, way easier to sanitize (slip it in last 20 min of boil - DONE!) Second, you can cool while you are lettting hops and trub settle - otherwise, with the CFC you have to let it sit for 10-20 min. at close to boiling temps and you are utilizing hops, changing your BUs and - if you have the kettle covered - trapping SMM which converts to DMS. Which you don't want. With an IC, you can simply stir a few times and have your wort cooled past the "danger zone" of SMM and hop utilization usually within 2 - 5 min. depending on your water temp, maybe 10 minutes during dead of summer.
As for you CFC - you are going to probably need a pump to utilize it properly. But if you do have a pump you are better off recircing with an IC anyway. So, a CFC is (IMO) no where near as good as an IC anyway!
I've noticed that the approximation for abv ends up about 3 gravity points low for me.
In the spreadsheet? Low relative to what? It uses an approximation based on real extract, so it will be lower than (OG-FG)*131, but also more accurate.Have you investigated how accurate your refrac is against a hydrometer on sugar water?
Yes, I calibrate using both water and a 20% sucrose solution. My hydrometer is two points low for both ("paper slip", presumably) but the refractometer is dead on at 0.0 and 20.0. In your case, are you sure it's the refractometer that's off, and not the hydrometer?
jamil can do what he wants but it's not necessarily traditional.
