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Thanks for the advice. To reduce the carbonation, would anyone recommend or have a process for decapping/recapping? Or would it be too much of a guessing situation and not be worth it?

Hey guys, Need some help here. I'm brewing a Brewers Best Russian Imperial Stout, made for 5 gallons. Without thinking and using the calculators for priming sugar amounts, I added the entire recommended packet (5oz) only to find out after bottling I had 14 22ox bottles and 13 12 oz bottles...

Any specific reason for star san in the swamp cooler?

Okay, sorry if this is a noob question but I just want to make sure I do this right. So i'm setting up my station now, i'm going to have a bucket of c-brite solution, and next to it a bucket of boiled water. Can I put my hands in/touch the boiled water, or will that contribute to possible...

well, I actually bought the harbor freight thermometer but returned it cause I found this one. I've heard good things about it but i'll have to test it out and see how it is. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/80100406/

Yes, I know thermapens are the best, but im on a tight budget. Does anyone have this thermometer and care to offer an opinion on it? http://www.harborfreight.com/instant-read-digital-thermometer-95382.html Thanks!

Cool. Yeah I wont' submerge it, and iv'e read on here to put a piece of packing tape over it to help keep water away, so i'll be doing that as well.

Hey guys, Getting ready for my first brew and I had a quick question. I only have a stick on thermometer, and was wondering if there was anything wrong with this technique to measure the wort temperature after cooling to pitch yeast. My plan is to cool wort (partial boil/extract kit) in...

Costs and difficulty aside, i'm looking at the differences in effectiveness of a swamp cooler and son of fermenter for fermentation temperature control. I was planning on building a son of fermenter type climate control, but am wondering if a swamp cooler is actually more effective/efficient...

Alright cool, thanks. But C-Brite actually is a sanitizer, if you google search them it is known that c-brite used to be marketed as a sanitizer but because they did not want to pay some legal fee's they have to call it a cleanser now, even though they did not change the recipe.

Hey guys! First post here, but iv'e done my research. I'll be brewing my first batch of beer very soon, and just wanted to make sure I get this right. I'll be brewing an extract kit, Brewers Best Russian Imperial stout. So anyways, the kit I bought comes with C-brite. Yes, I know star san...