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OK you win – that sounds awesome :)

The brew bucket is semi conical (to a small degree!) - what would a full conical give over it in this case?

Bit of a beginner here so apologies if this is a simple question. Equipment-wise I have a 7 gal SS Brew Bucket for fermenting, and am debating between bottling straight out of the bucket's spigot or transferring into another bucket and bottling from that... Thoughts in favour of straight from...

Oldie but a goodie

In my experience they offer a way better seal. With standard bottles the hand capper may work just as well, but with any other varieties or if you're cleaning branded bottles and re-using the bench capper is a huge improvement and more flexible (IMO). I was hesitant to buy one for the same...

Are you using standard bottles? What kind of capper? I only ask because I had the same thing happen with one of my early batches. Decided to use stubby bottles for the look and had a hand capper… caps didn’t get a full seal (although they really seemed like they did). The priming sugar was...

Ah very good point. I had seen some videos of people doing it to reduce O2 but sounds risky. Honestly the lid was off for maybe 20 seconds which seems safe enough

Opened for a dry hop… may try something fancy with magnets or thread next time :) but good to know! Think it’s just thrown me not seeing it go through the stages

Normally brew in glass and have a view into how things progress. Just opened my stainless brew bucket after a week and the Krausen looks sorta fine but the splotchiness of it seems new to me. Normal? Just hops in the process of clearing?

I'll likely build a kegerator down the road with a chest freezer so trying to save space for that in the future. The other piece of this is we have a newborn and I'm making the (very weak) case we can also use the fridge for formula to avoid going down to the kitchen at night. Dangerous...

Hey there. So I'm looking to build out a ferm chamber for my 7 gallon SS brew bucket – issue is I'm a bit tight on space / wife isn't a fan of a chest freezer going in anywhere. So I've settled on the idea of building out a collar for a mini-fridge and extending the depth that way. Curious if...