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:mug:I'll bet thats where the recipees are.:ban: looks like a good setup indoors out of the cold, nice and stabil for fermentation. Do you vent your boil kettle outside? Watch out for carbon monoxide if you use lp.

actually a syphon is for pulling liquid from the bottle, this is only required if you want to fill other tanks like paintball tanks. The question of owner bottle has to do with legality much like keg ownership, if the bottle was a rental then you will have to pay rental to the rightful owner and...

no not directly, but if it is an owner bottle you can probably take it to welding supply and they will trade it for a co2. It has to be an owned bottle and not a rental though.

oh ya thats right my bad sorry cb5000 your screwed

i thought that dms could be cleaned up by the yeast if you raised the fermentation temp at the end of fermentation for last couple points and a little time while the yeast was crashing before secondary and lagering.

This might be crazy talk but maybe you could take an old dishwashing machine and cut a hole in the top just big enough to insert a keg,top down right in the center. Hook up a spray ball inside that would go up in the keg and your done. It could even heat sanitize.

If you really like vanilla go for it, but even a capfull of extract in five gallons is noticable and it doesnt fade much with time. You can always add both beans and extract, it may add depth to the flavor. Bottling does make it harder because you cant adjust it with more as you go so taste it...

I just made a vanilla coffee porter, it clocked in at 8 percent. Coffee beans were added whole with no grinding into the corny at kegging approx. 1/4 cup that is what fit in my infusion ball, it floated by the way, and the next morning it was so strong that i freaked out. I pulled the ball out...

smellins great but tastin is better.

Any wort into the fermenter on your first try at all grain is good. Be proud that you had the courage to try it, sit back RDWHAHB good job.