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After having Stone's Master of Disguisse, their blonde stout and a gluten free coffee pale ale that was really surprisingly good I got to thinking about my next brew I wanted to do. First I thought about a real hoppy, dry-hopped blonde ale but then a friend at a coffee roastery pitched the...

hello and cheers to everyone, got a kinda detailed question...so I have an IPA in the secondary that I plan on dry hopping this Saturday and bottling the following Wednesday in my chest freezer (with a Johnson controll set at 70) but I want to brew again this Friday....my chest freezer fits my...

So I brewed a pale ale the other day and I have plans to throw some peppers in once I rack to the secondary (highly influenced after having Habenero Scuplin). My initial idea was to de-seed and de-vain 3 or 4 jalepenos, freeze them, put them in a grain bag and drop into secondary for the...

hey so I'm having yet again another problem with my Johnson control, so I set it to be at 66 and left for the grocery store, I came back and it reads 51, I even put a thermometer inside and that read 55 as well, I opened the chest freezer in hopes of the temp rising to what my AC thermometer is...

I purchased a Johnson A419 brand new from a local homebrew store and I had my Belgian sitting in there (new chest freezer as well) with it set at 74 with 1 degree of differentiation. One day the display showed nothing and it alarmed me but it came back and another day it dropped from 62 to 52...

So I bought a new Idylise 7.1 chest freezer and a johnson temperature controller and want it at 68 for a Belgian I plan to brew and ferment at but Im having a hard time getting it off of 65 and up to 68, I have the freezer on the lowest possible setting too, please help

giing to rack my porter into the secondary and i thought, if shile sanitizing the secondary carboy it could heat up thus shocking the yeast? am i over thinking it? i assume you would want it as close to the fementing temp as possible

Hey everyone, kinda a newbie here looking for some guidance with temperature control with my primary fermenter. I currently have a porter fermenting in my closet with no real temp control other than my AC being at 66. I sorta plan to brew to season (saisons, belgians, etc. in warmer months, I...

so should I bother cleaning the bottles I'm using? (straight from the home brew supply store so brand new) and just sanitize them? how important is it to let the bottles dry 100% before bottling? best method for sanitizing? I plan on using star San and if needed clean them with oxyclean free...

so I brewed a pale ale and dry hopped it with 2 oz after siphoning to my secondary, my question is when should I bottle? the air lock activity has slowed tremendously, I planned on bottling on the 8th and now I'm thinking the 6th, this is my first batch, thanks and cheers to any suggestions...

so I brewed on March 25th and made a sanitizer solution, I plan on bottling on Sunday, can I use the same sanitizer solution or should I make a new solution? it's been in my clean boil pot with a lid on it, 5g of it Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew