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Ok thanks everyone for your help!

Ok so what would be the best way to keep the temp in that range? I live in the desert so it's 90+ degrees outside daily and where my carboy sits, it's fluctuates from 72-78 degrees?

Haha just moved here from Long Beach, CA to El Paso, TX (military move) need to update that. So Pacman would just be faster? Plus I have no clue how to wash/reuse yeast

Haha can't drive up there, live in south Texas. My question is, is the pacman worth the wait? I want it to taste as close to dead guy as possible, if the yeast is a small factor (as far as between that and the subs) then ill just get the other...

Ordered my Dead Guy Ale Clone :ban:, then received an email that they're backordered on Pacman yeast for a couple weeks :( So question is....do i wait it out for the Pacman, or order one of their two suggestions (American West Coast, or Safale Ale Yeast) Both of them dry..

Well tried it several times, and after bottling and bottle conditioning it for about 2 months, it still has an extremely strong bitter, almost "Burnt" taste to it...like char...what the hell?

Alright....update...its been about 6 days since brew day and no activity for 4 days now...i racked it to secondary to hopefully get it off the hops and lower the profile. Racking was a breeze and everything went good...tasted a little bit and it was actually horrible haha, super bitter with a...

OH NO!!!!!!! YOU FORGOT THE GRAINS???????????? youre fine...

Just do the homer simpson...when the bottles are breaking and swmbo is asking just say "KABLOOIE! what are you talking about KABLAMO! oh excuse me..."

I brewed right before i moved without thinking and had to haul a glass carboy downstairs and to the back of an entire complex one week after brewing....talk about PRESSURE! It actually got shaken up ALOT and i was super upset and saying (Son of a B! i'm just gonna throw this **** out)....to my...

The longer the better is usually the case. But if you're eager (which is MOST understandable) then in your FG doesn't change in 3 days or more, it should be done. Enjoy!

Maybe not done for....but that bottle was for sure overcarbonated...the pressure from the CO2 was just too much for the bottle to handle...what kind of bottles are you using and how did you prime them? Also, was that the only bottle to break, and in how long?

+1 i agree....tempurature, more importantly tempurature CHANGES are more important since the airlock is in place. If you have a good steady room temp you sould be peachy!

Don't bring to a boil nessesarily....put the grains in your steeping bag, get water to about 155 F and lower the heat just to keep it at that temp, put in your grain bag, swirl it a bit to make sure they're all soaked and wait 30 mins, and remove them!

Roll them into the doorway of an AA meeting

Perfect! So should i take the red stopper off the bottom of my racking cane to get more slurry into the secondary?

Yeah i plan on conditioning it in the carboy for a while, i'm just wondering when to rack it to my secondary so my dry hops don't ruin my red. I Plan on maybe giving it 2 months or so to refine.....just don't want another geiser in my secondary

Waffles.......

practiced patience, and still no activity....i'm thinkin maybe a gravity reading without the OG?

So being up too early sometimes makes your mind go crazy and i just thought.... I spend most of my brew time trying to chill my wort to yeast-pitching temp. (i know, but i don't have a wort chiller or the money for one) and then i just thought... Could it be possible to do your boil, and...