I have attended a Club Doze meeting and would highly recommend them. Based on the first meeting I attended I will probably be joining soon. I want to attend a meeting or two more before I pay the club fee's and make it official.
Overall the meeting was a blast and served as a great learning...
Yea per this forum I also stopped racking to secondary. I normally just leave in primary for on average 3-4 weeks longer for some brews though. Then if I am dry hopping I just give everything a quick spray with Star san pop the top and drop my hops right in. After a week they settle down to the...
Why all the extra steps? I just drop my hops right into the carboy "no bags no marbles" a week before I plan to keg or bottle. By the end of a week the hops settle down to the bottom and I rack. I use a racking cane with a tip and have been very happy with the results.
I use an old refrigerator as my fermentation chamber and have no vents on it. I have had 3 carboys fermenting in it at the same time with no pressure issues. I think you should be fine.
Completely ruined private message me for address to send the ruined beer.
Yea relax throw an ounce of hops in a week or so before you bottle if you really want to. Even if you don't the beer will still be beer just less of a hoppy beer.
"Better wort manufacturing" :rockin:
My rational is a fridge is cheap and sometimes free on craigslist and a temp control unit for the fridge is like $60