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Collecting water from night before would lengthen my brewday. I collect hot water from hot water heater the day of. Shorten's my time to get to strike temp.

Yeast strain: Weihenstephaner (Whyeast 3068) Recipe: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f70/weihenstephaner-dunkel-clone-42549/ Brewday happend 10 days ago. Had a great fermentation and everything started to relax and krausen fell back into beer and all airlock activity stopped. Fast...

I live on an island in the ocean off of Alaska and I somehow scored one for $15.

I guess in the future I'll add at flame out. What if I pulled half a gallon and gently heated it to ~165 (boiling point of ethyl alcohol is 172) and mixed in the two pounds, cool and added that back in?

Question regarding adding the Candi Sugar/Syrup: I decided to not add it in the boil as to make the yeast eat all the hard sugars before getting their desert. I am going to add them at about day 4, but I want to know which way would be the best 1. Just dump the sugar in. Hopefully it does...

not sure why Midnight Sun is not mentioned here. Now the second best brewery in the state. State law only allows 36 oz of beer in a tasting room of a brewery. So go out there (By Home Depot in an industrial park and enjoy thier great beer). Anchorage Brewing Company has the best beer but it...

umm...sanitation?

HI from Kodiak!

Check location. Yup

whats with the kodiak name?

wish I would have realized this before spending $11 on pumpkin at my grocery store. Could have invested that into graham cracker extract!

my sparge is going incredibly slow with 3 can's of pumpkin in there . I did forget the ginger though..so I guess it gives me time to goto the store!

Is there a way to graham extract on your own? I was thinking of finely chopping some graham cracker and letting them steep in some vodka for a few weeks. Filter in a coffee filter than add the vodka. Any comments if that would work? would the vodka be too much?

Not sure how to search the thread but... I did my first boil last night w/ my 2000 watt stick in my keggle. It Boiled, but it was not vigorous. If I put two heat sticks in there it is vigorous, but w/ one it's a light boil. Will insulating w/ that metallic bubble wrap help enough to make for...

Well you just made an Eisenbock if you didn't salvage that that frozen water :) No idea how it will effect quality if you include that frozen water.