SECTION 3: BREWING ON YOUR ZYMATIC
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3.2 Preparing Ingredients
NOTE:
Proper cleaning and sanitizing of brewing equipment
is a CRITICAL part of the brewing process. Without it, you risk
the introduction of bacteria and contaminants into your beer.
• Cleaning:
All equipment that comes into contact with
beer must be thoroughly cleaned and rinsed prior to
brewing. Unscented dish soap is effective, but must
be thoroughly rinsed off before brewing.
• Sanitizing:
All equipment that comes into contact
with beer after it has been brewed needs to be
sanitized. We recommend using Star-San, or a
similar food-grade sanitizing solution. Generally, all
equipment should be soaked in a diluted sanitizing
solution for about 10 minutes before use. Kegs
should be filled with a diluted sanitizing solution, and
left to soak for about 10 minutes.
Fill your keg with the amount of water listed in your recipe.
Use a gallon jug and measuring cup or a scale (8.33 lbs water
= 1 gallon of water) to measure your water.
Accurate water measurement is important to ensure the
best results for your brew. Water measurement errors are
one of the most common problems brewers encounter. If you
use a scale to measure your water, don’t forget to tare it to
your container before adding water!
Name:
Input the name of your fermentation step. You may
have up to 5 fermentation steps.
Temp:
Input the temperature required for the fermentation
step.
Days:
Input the number of days the fermentation step
will take.
Hours:
Input the number of hours the fermentation step will
take (in addition to, or in lieu of the Days section).
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Any other notes you would like to add should go in the notes
section. We encourage lots of detail—this is a great place to
note dry-hopping and anything that was not already covered
in the recipe crafter.
If you plan on using the Advanced Recipe Control Program
Editor for your recipe—please note that here! Changes made
to the Advanced Recipe Control Program Editor are not
reflected on the recipe page so noting this in the Notes field
is especially critical and helpful for those downloading your
recipe from the library.
Note that any temperatures listed in this section do not
automatically adjust if the units change between Imperial
and Metric.
Save. Click the Save button when recipe crafting is complete.
This will sync and upload to the Zymatic automatically.
If you run into any issues selecting or crafting a recipe,
visit “Troubleshooting” under the “Support” tab of your
PicoBrew account.
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