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Sounds good. I'm still going to rack into the secondary, but I don't want to cold crash because I plan on giving out about half the beer in 750mL's as Christmas gifts and cold crashing would extend my carb time. I don't want anyone drinking flat beer. If it's not completely clear, so be it...

It's about to finish in the primary. I'm going to rack into the secondary on friday for 14 days, then bottle. I have 10 gallons of beer so I'll pitch a half package of S-04 along with a cup of dextrose.

Hey everyone, I was a fairly steady homebrewer for a while but had to take a couple years off while serving on active duty in the army. I recently got out and got back into home brewing. I recently did this recipe: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f65/irish-red-1st-place-hbt-comp-141086/...

I have never pitched new yeast at bottling, but this recipe calls for the yeast. I'm wondering if I should also add priming sugar or if the new yeast is sufficient.

Did anyone use priming sugar as well as pitching new yeast when bottling, or was the yeast sufficient to carbonate?

I brewed my first AG brew on Sunday and it's in a 5.5 gallon primary fermentation bucket, I left very little air space in the bucket and it started fermenting like crazy yesterday, leaking foam out of the airlock and all over the bucket. Today when I got home the airlock was clogged with trub...

I did my first AG yesterday and it went perfectly and I just wanted to thank everyone for all the advice they gave me to make everything go so smoothly. Did a 6 gallon batch of citrus wheat, hit all my temps, hit OG right on the mark at 1.045, my fly sparge went perfect and damn does it smell...

I know that you not supposed to add grain during a boil as it can add tannins to the beer. I also know the pilsner malt was supposed to be put in the grain bag in the beginning with the flaked wheat, belium aromatic, flaked oats, and rice hulls, but it didn't list it and i didn't catch it until...

Please help! I did my first partial mash today, a hoegaarden clone, and I really hope it turns out okay but i'm really worried. I was following the recipe to the T. I did a stove top partial boil, about 3/4 of the way through my 45 min boil I discoved that the ingredient list included 1.25 lbs...

In your opinion, is a 45,000 propane BTU turkey fryer enough for a keggle? I know the king kooker is only 55,000 and i know people use them....advice?

Thanks for the replies, I have 2 guys in my home brew club that have aluminum sankey kegs for MLT's because they are alot lighter to move around, but if 99 percent of them are stainless i guess I don't have to worry about any of this.

I was at my first local home brewer's meeting last night and a bunch of them suggested that I get some kegs to turn into keggles for my brewpot and mash tun, however, I was also told not to use aluminum. Which used kegs, ig. commercial beers, use steel instead of aluminum for their kegs? I...

jersey isn't THAT bad, i'm in the army and travel quite a bit but i still always end up coming back here, bought a house a mile from where i went to high school, in south jersey. Anyway, welcome to the forum and hopefully we'll swap brews sometime.

Hey everyone, I've posted a couple threads but never really formally introduced myself. I've done a couple extract brews, this sunday is my first partial mash and i've been steadily collecting and building equiptment for my first AG next weekend. Anyone in here from around south jersey? I'm...