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When I'm finished cooling my wort (BIAB) and start siphoning it into the fermenter, I typically take a gravity sample. On my last batch I took two gravity samples. The first one had more white-ish sediment (and some hops) which measured 1.051. Out of curiosity, I took another reading when the...

Yesterday I pitched White Labs 001 (with a best by of 1/16/2014) in a yeast starter on my new DIY stir plate. I boiled 200G of light DME in 2L of water for what ended up being about 15 minutes. When I poured it into the flask some of it spilled... I ended up with just over 1.5L. I believe the...

I only have room to control the temperature of one carboy at a time. I have a ale that is in a secondary fermenter while I wait for the yeast to 'clean up' the beer before bottling. The primary fermentation was complete almost two weeks ago (pitched almost 3 weeks ago). I used Wyeast 1056...

Before I started brewing my first beer, I wanted to setup a way to cool my carboy down to a desired temperature. I looked into purchasing a refrigerator but I don't really have room in my apartment for an appliance like that. So instead I built this! I purchased two...