For dispensing I keep it in a beer bottle full of water. For fermenting I attach it just at the top of the beer on the outside of the carboy. I figure it will keep the temperatures towards the bottom a little lower than the set point and account for some of the extra heat within the carboy due...
It was a 5 gallon batch partial boil. I will post the full recipe tonight. I am at work and don't know it off the top of my head. The only reason it came up was I took a quick look at the kit when I was at my lhbs on my lunch break and saw it called for dry hopping. I should have assumed it...
It appears as though I added all the hops to the boil and forgot to leave them out for dry hopping. I bought some more hops today, and am wondering if it is a good idea to still dry hop. I am going to take a gravity reading today after work and have my first sample. It has been in the primary...