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Well...as of this morning the airlock is starting to slow down. The room in the basement smells like Cascade so keeping my fingers crossed. Planning on throwing in 2 0z dry hop. Maybe this will diminish the cheese/plauge issues. ;-)

So I have my first all grain BW in primary for 3+ weeks. I know the general consensus is to bulk age in secondary, then add oak chips 2 weeks or so prior to botteling. I was thinking of an alternative plan. Bottle directly from primary. Instead of adding chips to fermenter couldn't I boil...

Haha! What a marketing strategy! With floral citrus and blue cheese/vinegar accents!

2oz Cascade at flameout. If it comes out clean I'll be shocked. If it smells like old sour cheese from my boys socks I won't be shocked

Think I will have a major infection in my batch from yesterday. Aye... Here are the particulars. Vieanna/Cascade SMaSH 12lbs grain US05 I had my plastic lid/fermentor nicley sanitized and ready to go after chilling the wort. Part of my ritual is having my son hold a strainer over the...

This was my grain bill/fermentables/hops 5 lbs pale malt 4 lbs Vienna malt 1 lbs, 8 oz Crytal Malt 60 8 oz Dark Candi Sugar 1.25 oz Styrian Hops @ 60 min 0.30 oz Saaz Hops @ 60 min 1.35 oz Styrian Hops @ 15 min 3 oz ginger root @ 12 min 10 cloves @ 12 min 4 cinnamon sticks @ 12 min 1.25 oz...

Hello, I used T-58 for the first time Sunday. I did an all grain 3 gallon batch. The airlock started bubbeling after a few hours like crazy. Then after 30 or so hours it totally stopped. The is no krausen visible and no pressure on the airlock. I didn't take any readings. I ususally...