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• Posted in thread: Severely alcohol; Green beer the cause? on 10-12-2012 at 05:54 PM
  With the cooler weather lately, I don't see how the beer was 80F (6+ degrees hotter than the
  ambient). With a five gallon bucket, a container bigger than that sounds expensive and rolling
  ice every 12...

• Posted in thread: Severely alcohol; Green beer the cause? on 10-11-2012 at 05:37 AM
  I don't have a fridge for that kind of temperature. Keeping my home, where I ferment, at 65
  would piss off my girlfriend! haha.

• Posted in thread: Severely alcohol; Green beer the cause? on 10-11-2012 at 04:30 AM
  5.4lb 2-row3.4oz cara pilsMash @ 155.4oz zeus hops.5oz magnum hops1.05oz honeyOG 1.064 @ 58
  degrees FFerment temps are 70 - 75.2.5 gallons finishedBottle three days ago with, decided to
  give it a try....

• Posted in thread: Well, this is strange. on 09-28-2012 at 02:05 PM
  I did that with the original picture and it slipped right through. I took the wet popcorn crap
  and siphoned through a cheesecloth filter and I was able to get about 95% out, but now after
  bottling the...

• Posted in thread: Well, this is strange. on 09-27-2012 at 02:02 AM
  Okay, I figured out a vorlauf technique that worked but the wort still looks like it's got crap
  in it! I'm beginning to think it's the freaking Irish Moss, because I didn't get this the first
  time.Is ...

• Posted in thread: Well, this is strange. on 09-23-2012 at 03:42 PM
  Ah. Mine has one of the holes that you have to press to open.

• Posted in thread: Well, this is strange. on 09-22-2012 at 08:24 PM
  Does your cooler have a drain hole/plug?Yes.I have two coolers. One 2 gallon, one 6 gallons and
  I use either depending on the size of the batch. Using the drain hole, however, gets it plugged
  up reall...

• Posted in thread: Well, this is strange. on 09-21-2012 at 10:43 PM
  How are you mashing and sparging? Your wort should come out fairly clear after vorlaufing and
  filtering thru the grainbed. Looks like stirred up mash went into the fermenter to me.Unable to
  vorlauf. I...

• Posted in thread: Malting Pumpkin Seeds? on 09-20-2012 at 04:29 PM
  I used six row with regular pumpkin meat and it seems to have turned out great. It might work
  for the seeds as well. Who knows! Give it a shot!

• Posted in thread: Well, this is strange. on 09-20-2012 at 04:27 PM
  Yes, only one gallon. Never had pumpkin ale before and I didn't want to make a huge batch and
  not like it.That's why people generally add pumpkin to the mash, not loose in the boil.It was
  in the mash.