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i have a 25' 3/8" copper chiller with a pond pump. i have an industrial sink so i can fill it with 3 bags of ice and cold water. it will go from boiling to <70 in under 10 minutes

if anyone has any tips for lagers id like them too. im doing my first lager ever and its a maibock

i guess i was blessed with summer heat because up until a month or so ago they were ready to go in a week to 2 weeks. mystery solved

room temp, but it might dip below that at night. would it matter that much as long as it above 60?

ive done about 10 batches before this started to happen but the last batch never really fully carbonated and this batch is still flat after a week. its spent 2 weeks in a primary and then 2 in a secondary. this is the first time ive done a hefeweizen and a red ale if that has anything to do with...

unless you just exposed the pot to air, or just hit it with steelwool, aluminum is pretty reactive with oxygen and will form a thin layer of Al2O3 pretty fast. id say you are safe ive never heard of anyone doing this before and ive done probably 12 batches without doing this and mine were fine...

i use 1 tablespoon of cinnamon, nutmet and allspice right before the boil was over. alot of it settled out with the pumpkin in the primary

what hops and what yeast were you using?

i found that good siphoning into a secondary fermenter can get rid of 95% of the dry hops then when you siphon again it will be prettymuch hops free

nugget or warrior hops would be the two that i would suggest they have a resiny smell/flavor with a citrus aftertaste.

i saw the title and instantly thought of all the inbreds in state college that ask for a "lager" when they want yuengling. thats by far the most frustrating part of working at a bar.

i used 8oz of nestle cocoa powder in my last beer and 75% of it fell out in the secondary fermentor so i dont think useing powder would be optimal. also it tasted like bakers chocolate

fill your sink with ice and cold water then use a wort cooler. i found that 30lbs of ice is about 4-5$ and with the 10 gal pot submerged in ice and water it will cool 5-6gals in ~10 minutes

i was playing around with the most reacent version on arch linux and i noticed that sometimes the abv would be way over what it should be like i put in my last ipa just to see what it would say and it came back at 14% when it was 6.5 also i was playing around with a russian imperial stout and...

oldsock starting with a different base would defeat the point of having both teams start on the same level. i just can think of anything other than a coffee stout which i hate coffee, a cherry stout and a russian imperial stout.