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Bump for a great thread.

Yo! What's ahp from north of Woostah!

+5.25 gals American IPA of my own recipe. 18900

And do you feel that accurately represents the temperature of the beer? Or do you set the temperature controller a degree or 2 lower than your target temperature for the yeast because it is probably warmer inside the bottle than on the side?

You guys are convincing me to convert a small chest style freezer I have to a fermenting chamber. I get the temperature controller part but what I have a hard time picturing is how you hang the thermocouple in the Carboy or plastic barrel while keeping it sealed. Can someone show me the...

My gravity measured 1.020. Still unchanged. I went ahead and bottled. From the tasting, its a little too sweet and I was underwhelmed by the hop flavor. Didn't taste much more hoppy than the tasting before the dry hopping.

Hi, I have a bit of a dilema. I'm brewing a DIPA of my own recipe loosely based off Lagunitas Lil' Sumpin' Sumpin' Anyway, I was moving the carboy downstairs this evening to prepare for bottling and after letting it sit for 1.5 hours, what do you know? I'm seeing a bubble in the airlock every...

@abrix - That graph isn't what kicked off the thread and I'm not sure its validity was accepted. I read comments like the ones below that lead me to interpret the conclusion of the thread was that SG had no effect on Hop Utilization (it was break material, whatever that is, in all grain...

Just curious, how much do they go for?

Wow, interesting stuff. I got my concern of leaving it in the primary from reading the complete joy of homebrewing 3rd edition. Guess it lacks some of the latest info (or maybe I haven't read far enough where Charlie discusses the finer points of yeast breakdown).

What if you need to be flexible about timing to bottling? I thought it was a bad idea to keep beer in the primary for too long. Maybe that doesn't make it an absolute need but for those of us with tight schedules it pretty much is a need?

+5g English Pale Ale +5g Unnamed IIPA 8073.5

I will someday, but for now my brew knowledge is not worthy of writing definitions. I just brewed my 2nd beer, a Imperial IPA I plan on dry hopping, this weekend. I better learn more about cold crashing as it sounds helpful. Maybe I'd add to the Wiki after ;)

Sure, that would be fine place to use, but the current one is not complete. "Cold Crash" is missing from it for one. "Partial Boil" and "Full Boil" too. I'm sure I'll find more as I start referring to it.

Thanks for starting this post. I was about to create one similar to this as a new home brewer. There are many terms used frequently on this forum that aren't part of any sticky, like "Cold Crash", "Dry Hop" and "Hop Utilization" to name a few. You can find the answers after a search and reading...