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Thanks for the heads up on Basic Brewing! I've been listening to them pretty much constantly for the past month. Good stuff. I just discovered a nice cooling setup for my 1-gal fermentor: a 12-can igloo cooler. Gallon carboy sits nicely inside, and accommodates water and ice packs. The...

Great thread. Just finished fermenting my first extract beer and will rack it to bottles tomorrow. Let's hope it turns out good :-) I'm doing 1-gal batches, so I'm interested in techniques for that (they don't seem any different than the larger batches so far). For best hop utilization, has...

Thanks! I'm paying more attention to the finer details now - temperature, sanitation, etc. One the 2nd batch, I was careful with cleaning and sanitation, but temperature may have been an issue - it's hard to maintain a low enough temperature during a New York heat wave, though for a saison I...

Greetings all, I just joined the forum, after lurking for a bit. I got introduced to craft beer about 8 years ago and it's been downhill ever since ;-) I'd hazard a guess that Belgian styles were the ones that turned me on to craft beer, but I have yet to find a style I hate (though I haven't...