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I've been using S-04 for a while now alongside 1968 and agree that the strains yield similar results. Also used for my first ZD clone with a very good finished product. Very durable and efficient yeast.

Brew days will probably start at four am or eight pm. I was doing partial boil extract batches and topping off with ice to get to volume for a while with decent results. That was with our second child. With the first kid, I was still doing one gallon ag batches on the stove with brew days ending...

I'm using a 25 foot copper chiller. Since I either brew in the night or early morning, my water comes out fairly cold from the source. I don't have any leaks from the hose to the IC. Initial water comes out scalding, then cools with time as I stand and circulate the IC. My thinking was to fill...

I do my brewing mostly at night or in the early morning when there aren't children running around throwing rocks in the kettle or trying to scorch their little flesh on the burner. The last time I brewed I was using my immersion chiller and watching all of that cold water running out into the...

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I snagged some wort from a professional brewery in Indianapolis and boiled up a batch with it and pitched S-04. That was the prettiest yeast cake I can ever recall seeing. Dense and level. My next batch was an ESB with both DME and LME also pitching S-04. Kept in primary about 3 and a half...

Two questions: 1. What kind of juice? Did you just use straight up apple juice,100%, from concentrate? 2. Maybe this is off topic, but you said your yeast cake looked pretty good. I have noticed a lot of variation in the appearance of my yeast cakes. Some look like watery brown cottage cheese...

My fermenters live in my closet and I've never had any bad experiences with smell that weren't easily fixed. Use an air freshener and leave the door cracked or just keep your fermenter out of the way and use a blow off tube in a growler as opposed to a standard air lock, perhaps. I'd say an air...

The kids like watching the airlock bubble a lot and I don think they'd mess with it. My closet really is the only place that I leave my fermenters because the temps are pretty steady and they're out of the way there. It's good for ales in the winter months. It stays about 64~66 in there and I...

Thank you, sirs! Between my Christmas gift card, shopper points and 10% discount I can get all four of these within my price range. I had been considering the cooler for a while and saw others have positive reviews for it. I think my LHBS carries all of these in stock, too. A friend had...

Hello, HomeBrewTalk! I've been brewing for about two years now since my wife picked up a one gallon all grain kit from Brooklyn BrewShop and I was hooked after that. I brewed for a year doing small all grain batches on the kitchen stove with decent results using really basic equipment and crude...

I've been brewing for about two years and I used the forums a lot in trying to find out more about brewing. Often, this was the first resource available when I would search the net for answers