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Well you guys were right.. it was fine. Around the 20-22 hour mark, I shook it up a bit and there was a lot of CO2 in suspension. An hour after that, I cracked the seal on the lid and it hissed like a mofo. I'm glad I did that because I don't know how much longer the glass would have held up...

Most yeast I get averages 65-75F. I've never seen ale yeast that recommends 50-55F.. maybe you're thinking of lager yeast. This one was 70-75F, WL Dry English Ale Yeast. Besides, my tap water is always pretty cold, and I spent way too much money building this thing, so I think cutting it in...

Well let me tell you how my evening went. I almost lost my IPA because my CFC did something I was completely not expecting. And please laugh at me if you've heard this one before or better yet, if you figured it out yourself. I put eight pounds of DME into my roughly 4 gallon kettle and...

Well I can't afford the five bucks, so I might just screw it up! Right now it looks the same. The air in my apt. is about 66F, so to keep it at 70F I've been keeping it in a pyrex dish filled with warm water, about 75-80F and changing it every so often. I can't stick around all day to keep...

I know this sounds like a common issue, so I did search the forum first. Haha, I know how h/c posters get. :) I'm just a little worried about my starter. It's been more than five hours and all the yeast seems to have settled to the bottom and nothing much is going on. I know some of the...

Ahh, vinegar. I'll do that.. and I gather keeping it full of sanitizer is a good idea. Thanks for all the responses everyone.

Yeah, I'm not so much worried about that fact that it's copper.. most of my plumbing is copper.. and I knowlingly built the wort chiller out of copper.. I just know that when I bought the copper pipe and I was handling it while building the wort chiller, it left quite a bit of dirt on my...

Well, see the thing is that it's not an immersion chiller. I'm dealing with the inside of the copper, not the outside. I'm concerned because I don't want my wort picking up anything that might be left over from the manufacturing of the copper pipe and I also don't want to end up in the ER...

I was wondering this about my new counter flow chiller. I haven't used it yet. How should I clean the inside of the copper? I figure I'll clean it once and then keep up with it with each use and shouldn't have to worry about it after that. What is a good caustic I can use for this, or could...

I wish I could say the same! I just finished building a counter flow chiller and I thought I'd test it out with some hot water. My new auto-siphon is now ruined. The inner tube is warped. The little plastic one-way valve at the bottom came out, and the rubber stopper as well as the seal...

OK, about adding more yeast to the bottling bucket.. I'm confused. Isn't there already a ton of yeast in the fermenter? After all the food's gone, does the yeast die or does it just go dormant? My batch has been in the primary for only 13 days (I thought this was long until I read this...