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I just go over the strike temp, cut the burner, stir until it gets back down to strike temp and then dough in

Just exchanged 5lb tank at airgas in SF for $36 =/

IMO 80 degrees is too hot to get a reliable measurement even with a calculated correction. If I take measurements at 80deg with my hydrometer I get all sorts of total nonsense. EDIT: I was thinking in celsius, if you were talking fahrenheit it's probably about right.

I no-chill and usually that means I pitch the next day. For the batch I brewed on Tuesday that's actually going to be sometime on the weekend because I need the ferm fridge to chill 4G of bottles. I don't anticipate any problems, seeing as the cube was filled with 90C wort before it was sealed...

I don't really trust mine but every time I use it side-by-side with my trusted thermowerks they come out the same, so maybe I should trust it more?

wlp009 is what is used by Coopers, the dry packs of yeast they distribute with their kits are a more hardy strain intended to cope with the different extremes a kit yeast is likely to encounter, ie very hot/cold fermentation etc. At least that's what I've read over at aussiehomebrewer. I believe...

The HDPE buckets will deal with boiling wort fine, they're HDPE, same **** the cubes we use in Aus are. The cubes are a bit better because they have a small screw on lid which allows less air to suck into the vessel while the wort cools down, they also stack, that said I think a bucket would...

So the yeast was old, but it still took off, what's the problem? Looks like it'll all turn out fine. However the coopers kit yeast is not the yeast they use in coopers sparkling ale.

> I do chill my wort down to around the 50C mark ( which is pretty east for me to do with a quick ice bath ) both to stop the hop isomerization ( so I don't have to recalculate all the hop timings ) An important aspect of No-Chill is filling your FV/Cube with Wort *at least* above...

Probably not the place for the discussion, but, wort chillers can be an infection vector too, and less time in terms of less of a concentrated block of time. Less time on brew day. The vast majority of people I've spoken to who No-Chill have literally never gotten an infection doing it, I'd be...

The appeal of no chill is not having to chill. Less equipment, less time, less water.