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As somone who has dealt with huricane spoilage in fridges and freezers if meat/food spoiled and thawed in it can tell you, it is likley that the juices leaked out of the chamber and into the frame/ compressor area. If that is the case, the smell will always be with you to some degree.

Subsea Engineer. BS - Materials Engineering, THE Ohio State University '97

Where is the inevitable "Use a hydrometer" comment?

I got one last April for 200 even when it was listed for 225. I just told the guy that I wanted it for that price and he said OK. Home Depot appliance guys have a little haggle room. I built a collar and outfitted it with two taps, with aspirartions for two more, though I do not think my...

Thanks. I am a little closer to 75 with mine - my wife decided my poor boy cold box was asthetically unpleasing and ordered its removal from the house, so I have no acceptable means to chill it without dropping it to kegerator temps. I am certainly looking to get this in the keg quick as my...

Brewed a Calusa Wheat Clone Yesterday - bubbling away today.

Greenbird - How do you treat your wheat beers?

fermenting away

Thanks guys. I pitched in the low 70's and let it sit for about 12 hours and the started cooling. I may have cooled too fast, so I will have to see if I stuck it next week.

I am working on my first lager and would like to know when I should drop the temperature? As soon as I pitch, or after I see obvious fermentation going on. I am using WL Southern German Lager yeast, and am going to throw this in my Keezer at around 45F.

I just did the same thing, extra long age in the fermenter, except that I was racking to the keg from a secondary, so I had not left it on the yeast. I had not issues with any bread flavors which I attribute to the secondary. I force carbed as well, and the first pulls taseted a little off...

Looking at a potential transfer to KL next year. Does anyone know if homebrewing is legal there? Any Home brew shops?

I was in there a few weeks ago. Reasonably stocked and