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Yea, temps are gnarly here in AZ, even in my house. I'm going to build a makeshift swamp cooler on my next batch. As far as cleaning goes, I use a light dish washing detergent and sanitize with Iodophor.

The water I am using is sealed gallon drinking water from the store and/or RO water. I figured Id rather be safe than sorry and spend the couple bucks to get good water rather than tap.

So as an update, my last batch still had that weird taste. After further review, the area I have been using (and the area my wife lets me keep my beer stuff inside) had an ambient temp of 82-85! That said, I believe my ferment temp is my #1 culprit... I'm going to take the brew to the local HBS...

Yea, I was afraid of that. It looks like they are aluminum, which makes me think that they would be just as fragile as brake lines....they would kink or break super easily.

Hey guys, my inlaws just gave me their old mini freezer and I would like to make it a small keggerator. Upon looking through it, it looks like there are coils at the base of each shelf....defeating the purpose of removing shelves to put a keg in. Any experience bending or relocating said coils...

I need the harsh lol, I'm tired of making ****ty beer =) Thank you guys for pointing me in the correct direction. I know that 99.99% of my questions have been asked over and over, I sometimes just need help identifying the questions I should be asking.

I would have to say the flavor is somewhat of an astringent taste meets metal....which that link you just provided me explains what I'm doing wrong. My siphon was just replaced not to long ago which I think is where I get my oxygen issues. As a side note, I have a hard time controlling ferment...

Hey Gents, I apologize for starting yet another off flavor thread, but I haven't found a definitive answer from my searches. I have done around 10 batches now, all extract from ingredients purchased locally (and from a local shop when I lived in another state). I am getting the same weird off...

Pick me =)

read all 59 pages, great build! Best of luck to your success =)

so...update.. In the hour and change since thread started, out of nowhere... bucket is bubbling. I gave the ferment bucket an ever-so-slight whirl and I guess kick started the process. Out of the 4 brews ive done, my success rate is at 50%, so I worry a bit too much. Thanks for the...

Sounds good guys....I'm so pissed at myself for doing this lol. We were just breezing through the brew having a few drinks and shooting the shiz...the second we pitched, we both went ahhhhhhhhhh!

Thanks for the feedback =) Hypothetically... Say a couple days goes by with no change and I do re-pitch, would that produce a yeasty off flavor/fogginess, or will that just produce more sediment at the bottom?

Hey guys, for some ridiculous reason, my friend and I were not paying attention (drinking) and pitched our yeast WAY to early. My guess is that the wort was around 100 degrees, but the wort most likely got down to proper temp within an hour or two. Its been 8 hours now and I see absolutely no...

Thanks for the tips with the hops. With regards to the additions, how would you go about making an esb? With my previous brews, I'd add 2oz of hops at the beginning of the brew and another 2oz 10-12 min towards the end of the brew (for the brown Ive been brewing). I am assuming that over the...