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Just transferred this beer to secondary and MAN, it smells delicious! It tastes great so far as well. Stepping up the temperature throughout primary to almost 80F seems to have added a bit more of the banana aroma I was going for. I was worried about the color since my homebrew store didn't...

Well, I pitched two tubes of White Labs 530 on Sunday night and I'm getting no activity. I may have pitched at a high temp but it certainly wasn't over 100F. I thought after it came down it would start up but it hasn't. My other concern and probably more of a factor is that both tubes were...

I know I made this beer quite awhile ago but it turned out pretty awesome...sooo, I'm making it again this week with the same recipe, however, I'm going to try that temperature difference in fermentation mentioned above. The color was great and it disappeared from the keg {mostly by SWMBO}...

So, according to BrewSmith, my estimated FG was supposed to be 1.017 and it came in at 1.020 before pumping it into the keg. It has a great chocolate aroma and it's not too bitter which is something I was afraid of. It seemed a little heavy on the roasted barley on the initial taste but that...

Ingredients Brewhouse Efficiency: 82.00% 10 lbs 8.0 oz Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) Grain 1 lbs Caramel/Crystal Malt - 120L (120.0 SRM) Grain 1 lbs Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM) Grain 1 lbs Victory Malt (25.0 SRM) Grain 8.0 oz Roasted Barley (500.0 SRM) Grain 2.00 oz Cascade[3.50...

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Survey done. I've been busy building an Ugly Drum Smoker to totally man out this summer. Meats...beers.

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I got in way back and bought my 2 Chugger pumps el cheapo...under $100 and one had a serious issue with the impeller contacting the head and make a terrible noise. I could never get it to prime. I contacting Chugger about just sending me a new head and they sent me a whole new pump with a...

Thanks for the shout out earlier in the thread. The only reason I went into so much detail with my control box was because I couldn't find it anywhere else on here. I'm not an expert by any means so it was a process of trial and error. I have experience with wiring and repairing audio...