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That is simply amazing, thank you for sharing! I especially enjoy the flashback to missing out on recording episodes of my favorite shows on VHS. Glad that media and homebrewing have evolved greatly over the last 30 years!

My first brew was in August 2011 (thank god for embarrassing FB posts or else I wouldn't have much records of those first few brews). It was AIH's "The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown ale," which I purchased after reading How to Brew online a few times through. I had assembled my equipment as...

Is it uncommon for most LHBS to let you crush your own grain? I'm guessing I'm spoiled at Adventures in Homebrewing's physical location, as I've been able to experiment with changing the crush size on their industrial crusher over the years. If you ever order from there, I'm sure they'd tighten...

Brewer's Friend is completely worth the $2.49 a month. I use it to store all my recipes, plan brews, adjust water profile, calculate gravities, build up yeast starters, and way more. I usually only use the web app since I like to take notes and numbers in Google Drive on brew day, so planning...

King_Coaster, sugar is often used in various styles like IIPA and some Belgians for various reasons, such as boosting abv and drying out the beer further without affecting color or flavor.

Why does it seem like everyone these days are so impatient to drink their kegged beer? It's no different than bottles, the beer will still be rather green those first couple weeks.

You can use basically any kind of plastic bucket for bottling, as long as it is food-safe. Check out places like the local bakery- they use 5 gallon buckets for things like frosting all the time and just throw them away. My bucket is an old 5 gallon bucket from when I used to work at a local...

Lots of people don't like the spigot on the fermentation buckets, but I live and die by them. As long as you have a tight seal, there's not much to worry about with leaks. They make it extremely simple to draw off a couple of ounces for a gravity reading compared to opening the lid to the...

It'd be fun to head out and pick up a batch of the wort, but no one I've asked from around here in Detroit wants to go along. :( The first place prize is rather intriguing, though...

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What strain of yeast are you using? If you Google it, you'll find the preferred fermentation temperature range for your yeast. 67-70 is good for about 95% of Ale yeast, though it is on the higher side for most. The higher you go, the more chance the yeast will create fusels and off flavors.

+5 gallons of Porter =18,894 total gallons

I try to be witty, funny, or clever if possible: Porter? I hardly know her; Hefe-vixen; Extra SMASHing Bitters

Brewed my first porter. Only a couple minor mishaps, but came pretty close on numbers for my first brew in 9 months!

It's not the end of the world for the yeast if that happens once or twice, but constant and large temperature shifts for the yeast everyday is not the ideal environment for them.

How are you releasing CO2 buildup from fermentation? Is the lid not air-tight? As for your SG question, there are a multitude of reason you might not get the attenuation you're looking for. Give it a few more days untouched and take another reading. Even after you reach FG, let the beer sit...

There's no point in using a secondary for this recipe. I wouldn't let it sit in the fermenter for more than a couple weeks past FG, since you start to lose some of the hop qualities over time. Just toss the hops in a week before bottling/kegging and you're good to go. As for temps, I always aim...

Yup, looks like saison is your new favorite style... ;)

Not sure about the recipe, don't have the book, but that does sound too quick. Always check for a consistent FG before bottling- you may very well hit FG in 10 days, but check to be safe, and an extra two to three weeks on the yeast cake will do more good than harm for your beer. And while 10...

Got up before dawn today to brew 5 gallons of porter! There's something special about being finished brewing before 11am, though the rain has put a damper on the yardwork I had planned. Still, it's nice to be done heating strike/mash out/sparge water in the kitchen before the wife is even up!