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I leave every batch in primary for 2 weeks. I felt that this would be enough time to clear up. But I'm going to take a reading after 2weeks to make sure.

So lets say next time I transfer to secondary and let it clear up before I toss my hops in and ill be good? Because this time I did my primary and transferred to a secondary fermenter already filled with my hops.

Ohh !! Another thing! I dont live where i brew i do it at my cousins house because he has more space we have a chest freezer there with temperature control we use for fermentation. The bottles were stored In this chest freezer but my cousin didn't turn it on figuring it would be room...

I'm still not too good with my readings. I have trouble with the whole gravity. I know its not the best way to know if fermentation is done but I go based on the bubbler activity and always do 2weeks in primary I figure I'd be safe. I should take multiple readings and make sure fermentation has...

They smelled okay I guess I didn't notice anything wrong with them color or smell wise. I'm not a pro so wouldn't know. They smelled nice though.

I used zythos hops for the entire brew. The profile I read was thts it should have a good aroma. Tht its a blend made to be used in place of some of the more popular and hard to fin hop varieties. I wasn't expecting it to completely match those varieties but I got nothing. I don't feel its the...

I'm wondering what can cause your hop aroma to not show up in the final product? I used 4oz of hops to dry hop in my secondary and felt I would have an okay nose on my pale ale but once I sampled it I get nothing.? What can cause this?

Yeah I had read that which is why I was interested In trying them out. Idk it might have just been my method of placing them and not my choice of zythos. Wouldn't want to discourage anyone frm using them.

Thanx Everyone :) The only reason I used zythos was because of the shortage of some of the more popular hops at my LHBS. I asked the guy there what I could use to get a somewhat similar nose and he had recommend this hop. I checked out its hop profile and it sounded like it would work okay, I...

Okay so i just bottled my home brew today, an american pale ale using zythos hops. But i didn't get the aroma i was thinking i would. So heres the details, used a good amount 4oz in pellet form and left them in my secondary carboy for a week. I placed them in a one gallon paint strainer bag...

thanx for the info everyone i decided to not worry too much and I simply left it alone. I didn't want to risk having too much yeast fall into suspension when it came time to bottle condition and carbonate being Im a noob I was a bit paranoid, a lot of the haze fell to the bottom. I simply...

Thanx for the info I appreciate it... so is it okay to add the clarifying agents in my current carboy with my hops in there? And as far as cold crashing if I place my carboy in my fermentation fridge for a day or two right now do I have to wait for it to get back to room temp before bottling or...

I used safale English ale s-04, yes I am bottling and no didn't use anything during the boil to help clarify. So you're saying no need to worry. I go along as planned wait to cold crash my bottles before serving?

So i brewed a pale ale and its looking pretty hazy. I did two weeks primary and transferred to my better bottle carboy to dry hop for a week. Im planning to bottle it in a few days. It clarified somewhat in the carboy while i was dry hopping but, I was wondering if i could do anything more to...

When heating my steeping water how much can I expect its temperature to drop when I place my grains in? I plan to steep them in a separate pot using 1.5-2 quarts of water per pound of grain. Just wondering if I have to heat my water to a higher temp then my steeping temp.

Thank you for all the advice fellow home brewers,I think I got it! :) I didn't want to deal with the trouble shooting once brew day came so I decided to play around with some of your ideas.. So first off I opened the control and made sure the settings were right. It was default at cooling mode...

So I am a newbie to homebrewing only have 3 batches in but I made the jump a while ago and bought a chest freezer for my new hobby but of-course it didn't have a temperature control and I found out I had to buy one in order for my new freezer to be useful to me. So I went online to northern...

Would cold crashing the yeast before dry hopping mess with your beers ability to carbonate properly once your ready to bottle??

wow this is so cool did you do it yourself? how do you go about creating something like that?? i want to be able to design a label like this but im completely new dont even know where to start, just know i want to end up with something to this level.

wow this is really cool man. how did you go about creating these their awesome.