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Anyone brew 5 gallon batches on your kitchen stove?
I used to brew on the stove top....it was an electric cook top with a glass or ceramic top. Notice the past tense in that sentence. It cracked. When bringing the wort to its initial boil the cooktop cracked pretty significantly. Now I need to either fix or replace it. Lucky my wife hasn't...- BStim
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Question about my first brew and its OG and FG
It stayed in the secondary for 10days (directions said 7-10days), but it has a bit of a plant/green flavor too it might be a bit under done. Its bottled now and even after 5 days that 'green' flavor is all but gone. All that being said, it is my first and it is good(enough for me). :) next...- BStim
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Question about my first brew and its OG and FG
So I picked up the Milky Way Stout kit from hombrewusa and had no issues throughout brewday that I can recall. However my OG was a bit low at 1.53 and my FG was 1.32. This is also the first time I am using a hydrometer so I think I am reading it correctly, but I tried the brew and no way is it...- BStim
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Starting my fermentation chamber build
Found the typical CL minifridge for 40$...but neglected to measure it prior to purchase and it is about 1 inch too small for my plastic carboy. Bummer, but I was planning on expending it out to hold 2 carboys at once anyways so no big deal. Hopefully I will be using this thread as a running...- BStim
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