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I also had zero airlock activity after adding the puree, and I also moved the fermenter to a much warmer location in my house at that time.

Thanks - I haven't put the cherry in yet. I was probably going to let it sit for another week and try to drop it down a few points. Thanks for the great recipe!

What kind of FGs are you guys getting? I've had this in the primary for just under 2 weeks and am sitting at 1.022, which seems a little high. (Hydrometer sample tasted good though -- nice smokey flavor coming through.)

You're essentially right, but also be sure to think about how you are going to cool 20 or 40 gallons of wort after the boil. I doubt that an immersion chiller would be effective with that much volume, so you'll need a counterflow chiller, as well as some method to get the wort from the kettle...

I recently picked up the 70-qt Coleman Xtreme from Amazon, mostly because, at $40, it was the cheapest Coleman cooler they had. Even for 5-gallon batches it's been a good size. It's not overly wide, so the grain bed isn't too thin (and I batch sparge anyway), and the Xtreme line of coolers is...

Absolutely. Probably should have mentioned that!

I did an IPA a few weeks ago and just threw pellet hops into my secondary. When I went to bottle, I cut the foot out of a new pair of the cheapest pantyhose they sold at Target and ruberbanded it to the hose end of my siphon. No detectable trace of hops in my bottling bucket.

Hello - long-time lurker, first-time poster! I was moving my primary about 24 hours into the fermentation. When doing so, I splashed some of the beer around, and some bubbled up into the airlock, just enough that the water is now slightly beer-colored (maybe 1/4 of a teaspoon). Is this...