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An extract IPA brew from MS I did a while back called for 2 weeks primary, 10 weeks secondary with dry hops the last 2 weeks. The beer turned out great and has good hop bitterness, but no hop aroma. I have an AG octane IPA in the fermenter now, 2 weeks in primary, and when I took a gravity...

I picked up a chest freezer a couple weeks ago to turn into a keezer. Until I get all the parts together I'm using it as a fermentation chamber. I've been watching CL for other parts and got a 20lb Luxfer CO2 tank today for $20. It has a dual gauge regulator on it as well, hopefully it works...

I've been planning the move to AG for some time now and finally did my first batch today. I had made my Igloo Mash tun several months back but waited until I felt more confident in using it. A few more extract batches were in order. For a first batch, I think things turned out fairly well. A...

I live in Central Florida and my tap water just isn't that cold. It takes forever to get my wort to anywhere near pitchable temps. I currently use a copper immersion chiller but am considering getting a Therminator plate chiller to use inline with my immersion chiller. Water from spigot through...

I've recently brewed 5 extract batches and a couple were darker than I expected. I made a cream ale that I was expecting to be pretty pale and it's quite amber. I plan to make a cream ale as my first all grain batch and wondered if I can expect it to be lighter than the extract cream ale batch?

I've brewed 5 acceptable but not fantastic extract batches over the past month or so. I think the mediocre results have a lot to do with my water. I'm ready to try out all grain and have built a mash/lauter tun and got a 10 gallon brew kettle. I figured I would get my water supply taken care of...

Great site and lots of info. I've been reading for a while and decided to join in. Thanks for having me. I started brewing about 12 years ago but it was short lived. I did up a couple of kits that turned out good but we moved shortly after that. I opted to give my brewing equipment to a...