Recent content by madtown

i'll be going with some Pliny the elder in hand!!

thats what i wanted to know! thanks for the responses.

i was thinking of not doing anything to the dip tube and just wasting the beer until it ran clear, most posts stated that if you cold crash for a few days to compact the yeast cake you'll end up wasting about a pint of beer before it clears, no real need to transfer to a second vessel. so i...

I'm getting ready to do my first all grain and have been researching a ton. I have my corny and want to use it for my primary. i want to use a QD attached to the "gas in" with a blow off tube. Most threads recommend removing stuff in the QD and on the post before doing this but i cant figure...

wow, thanks for the quick replies!! So i guess all of my ales are technically being lagered since i store them at 38 degrees. Is this a problem for ales? should i be storing them at my cellar temp (62 degrees F) until i want to drink them then cooling them?

newbie AG brewer here making my first post so sorry if this is stupid, and long. My understanding is these two concepts are totally different yet it seems as though people use these terms interchangeably which confuses me. Lager beer is a beer which uses lager yeast that prefer temps around...