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awesome! it's a great feeling

Mine always seems under hopped as well for the amount i use.. Tap water and campden Sent from my SCH-I535 using Home Brew mobile app

where did the 1.5 gallons go? on the bottom of your ferm chamber? Was your blowoff tube somehow seated too low and create a syphon?

I see a lot of fellow runners here.. I run to offset the calories i take in from beer. Doing the Manhattan and NYC half marathons in the next few months Sent from my SCH-I535 using Home Brew mobile app

Look for a welding shop.. I use triweld in deer park Sent from my SCH-I535 using Home Brew mobile app

my mistakes are pretty benign.. 1. accidentally dumped my stirbar into the fermentation bucket. 2. ran out of propane w/o a back up 3. Opened the tap on the kegerator and nothing came out.. opened it up and realized that my kegerator was set too low and froze my tap lines. I left the door...

interesting... never though about doing a step mash.. might be worth a shot, I just need to recalculate all my volumes in beersmith. I opened up my latest brew (yet another IIPA.. although this one was unintentional) to dry hop and took a sample. 1.018.. This one was using 002 and mashed at...

keg then bottle.. That's what I do, although setting up a kegerator isn't exactly cheap, i've never had to bottle condition before.

I'm not looking at mine right now but there is a time delay that you set before the cooling kicks on. mine is set for 5-10 minutes so the compressor on my fridge doesn't kick on too often. When i first power it on, it waits for that delay, then starts the cooling.

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I think the better question is why is your FG high and in reality, it's not that far off (your abv is only .3% off). Could be a lot of variables with the likely suspects being pitch rate, yeast viability and fermentation temperature. Can you give some more details about your fermentation?

well, success! My IIPA finished up at 1.016. My primary hydrometer reads .003 high so i needed to adjust for that but it seems like bumping the temp up right when the fermentation slowed down seemed to bring it down a little further (like aeration station recommended). I may have been waiting...

okay.. not brewing today, but tapped my first keg last night since about a 6 month dry spell.. double IPA but goes down real easy.. probably dry hopped a little too early, fermentation may have been going on still and lost some aroma.. still psyched though

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Running, working on my jeep, wheeling, guns, music production and writing, surf fishing and now trying my hand at building a quad copter. Sent from my SCH-I535 using Home Brew mobile app

Magnum is just for bittering.. I'm sure if you match the IBUs you'd probably not notice the difference..

I used two paint strainer bags, first one was for my hops during the boil, second was sanitized and was used to catch everything left as it went into the bucket. Cleanup and transfer was so much easier. I will have to see if hop utilization suffered although i don't have a baseline of a similar...

awesome.. thanks for the heads up! off tomorrow.. might have to chase some down.

15 gal sankes go for 40-50 bucks, i spend 60ish for my weldless sight, thermometer and ball valve from bobby. $100 before labor of cutting the lid off and using the step bit.

Looks like a successful brew day! THIS! not to be "that guy" but those burners emit CO and can be very dangerous.