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I use two stage homemade chiller. It cools 5g boil to 78F in seven minutes. I bought 50ft copper tube (3/8" OD) from HomeDepot, split in half and rolled over a bucket and a scuba tank to obtain two different diameter coils. Larger ones goes inside the kettle 15 minutes before the end of the boil...

Me thinks dish washer soap soaked steel pieces would work better.

Hopefully soemone will correct me if I am wrong; when the bottle is less then "full", it won't explode because there is enough room for CO2 to compress without too much pressure on the cap. In my half bottle, it opened with pretty good lively "hiss" though, beer was flat. My guess is, CO2...

I have opened a half full 22oz bottle of Dunkel (see sig below) tonight. Cap came up with a nice hiss but when I poured it looked flat. It was a half bottle because I couldn't discard it at the end of the bottling. The taste was too chocolate like for my preferences but with a very nice...

I guess it is the nature of internet forums; when you ask a question you get answers and opinions which you may or may not like. You take the ones you like and be done with it.

The only thing locks might may help with is to save your bacon when you need to explain what have you tried to prevent your beer is not readily accessible. Hope you never have to.

Most likely this is not the right category to post here but just quickly wnated to share my subscription problem to Brew Your Own magazine and how they chose to handle to resolve it. I have subscribed to the magazine in April and received my first issue of May-June. All summer long, I have not...

After being patient for seven weeks since I've bottled the Noble Trappist Ale, cracked one open today after finishing the bottling of the Dark Dunkel Weizen. Trappist turned out awesome, one 22oz bottle gave me pretty good buzz too.:drunk: It looks good, smells good and tastes good. I wonder if...

Not that I know why but just because, I put the extract kits into the fridge as I receive them. Grain goes into a ziploc bag. I order liquid yeast with ice pack and insulating envelope so that goes into the cheese drawer as is where the temperature is more stable.

I've substituted dry yeast comes with the kit by default with Wyeast American Ale (#1056). The recipe calls for grains to be steeped 10-30 minutes at 155F and let sit another 10 minutes off the stove. I did 30 + 10. Also, deviating from the recipe, I boiled with full 5 gallons instead of 2...

I've racked my Midwest Hop Head IPA to the secondary carboy today. OG was 1.074 eleven days ago when I brewed it. Today, I measured 1.011 which is results an 8.5% if I'm not mistaken. Suggested FG is 1.017. It tastes good (actually really really very good :ban:), looks nice, smells even better...

It sounds like you folks want me to become a Monk; patience my son, patience... I am glad I picked up those extra seven cases of 22oz bottles when I found them for $9.99/dozen.:mug:

That's a better question actually. If I were to rephrase my original question, expected minimum for carbonation and best after at least how long? Thanx.

What are the minimum in the bottle times for the following styles? a) Trappist Ale b) Imperial IPA c) Dark Dunkel Wheat

I am boling an IIPA tonight. It's a Midwest extract kit with speciality grains (Kit 265W w/American Ale Wyeast 1056). It is all hop hop hop... Recipe requires; 1 oz Chinook 60 min 1/2 oz Cascade 45 min 1/2 oz Centennial 30 min 1/2 oz Cascade 20 min 1/2 oz Centennial 10 min 1/2 oz Crystal 5 min 2...