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Started it today not going to add anything else to it I did do a centenial and cascade hop tea used white labs california ale yeast that I put in a starter yesterday

I tried one of the bottles yesterday. It been 3 weeks in the bottle even with all my doubt. It was an very enjoyable myy buddy agreed.It very clear ,carbed well and a decent head. I also started a thomas cooper ipa with a centinal and cascade hop tea added to it. I'm useing white labs...

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Thank u should I add the whiskey during primary. Or secondary? ,

Goin to do my 2nd batch thomas cooper ipa with a hop tea any sugestions on what type of hops I should use and was thinking of adding a 750ml bottle of jack daniels tennessee honey to it what do you guys think

The cooper diy fermenter has a large amount head space. I just want to make a good beer I do want to move to ag but I'm goin to git the kits down pat first

mine has the spigot and a bottleing attachment it was easy to bottle but idk about the krausen ring in place of the airlock and lack of proper seal

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I don't know if I like the fermentation bucket I got but it just seem like a good seal I got. A og of 1.050 and a fg of 1.020 so I know it fermented but not a lot of krausen like I see in some pic I don't know if that was due to the 25 l wort apposed to the 23l I should of done. I'm really new...

So the better bottle carboy is a plastic carboy

I plan on starting my next batch in about 2 weeks give me time to free up some bottles fist batch is bottled letin it sit for 3 weeks before tring it I'm going to retry coopers lager is if a few changes in the brewing gives me better outcome I think the first one should be ok I did make a few...

I plan of getting a carboy I have the cooper diy kit witch dosnt use an airlock thinkin about getting a 6 gallon carboy for primary and useing the bucket as a secondary is this a good idea or should I use the carboy for secondary

Temps have been at 70 for the most part just pitched at around 80 took my og at that temp

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On my first batch og 1.053 taken too hot had to repitch for same reason im one week in very little krausen have had a reading of 1.020 last 3 days should i move to bottl:confused:e to condition it has plenty of turb on bottom

Rooftopbrew.com has a calculater that allows temp correction

Yeah not goin to be real sure of abv this go round i have learned a few things i didnt pick up in my research just by this forum and doing it just going to let it for 3 or 4 more days before checking last reading was 1.020

I didnt like the one that came with my kit i replaced it yesterday

Every time i have used the hydrometer when reading it correctly it droped a few points

Think the fact that my fermentation bucket doesnt use an air lock is prob the source of alot of my worries one reason i m going to get the carboy then i will have an actual secondary as well not just bottle conditon