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Hello, I have a Kenmore 18 cu. ft. top freezer style that has been converted to a 2 tap kegerator. Also including kegs, faucets, fittings. All work great, moving and cannot use. I am in Tomball. Sell all for $250. If interested i can send pics

also after heating take some needle nose pliers or other tapered tip tool and give the tube end a good reaming before starting it on the fitting. I lost skin off 3 knuckles before discovering that little trick.

Those are some happy yeast!

Could be the fermenter is not fully sealed and the co2 is leaking somewhere other than airlock.

Assuming since an IPA a fairly high OG? Bigger beers will usually take more time. Try to forget about them for 3 weeks, as hard as that will be.

Some don't thinking the sanitizer can cause the oxygen absorbing abilities to weaken if allowed to dry out and be restored. I have personally have used previously sanitized caps many times with no negative effects.

Yes you would want to add priming sugar before bottling. Hopefully you have a bottling bucket or another plastic fermenter bucket. Boil the sugar in a cup or so of water for 4-5 minutes, add to bucket, then rack the beer on top of the sugar to mix. If you do any stirring be very gentle, you...

I used to get off tastes from tap water, but several batches ago started using campden tablets, which kill chlorine, and have not had one issue since. Bottled water works well too.

If you have the space and $$ then the two individual set ups sound great, I dont know of a down side.

Sugar solution first then rack the beer on top. Probably overkill but I do give the beer a very gentle stir occasionally while filling the bottles, maybe 2-3 times throughout the 5 gallons. Important to be very gentle if you do stir.

The yeast was only about 6 weeks old. Four weeks ago I used one jar from the same washing for a beer I just bottled up, there was no evidence of any problems when I used it and the beer seems fine. Hope it stays that way.

I find the temp swings will be smaller with a full carboy inside. Plus the liquid temp will not swing as wide as the air temp does.

Opened up a jar of washed WLP001 to make a starter for a weekend brew and noticed a few black moldy looking spots floating around. It was in 3 jars I had left. The yeast bed in the bottom looked clean and fine, the gunk was only in the liquid that would have been decanted. I took no pics. I...

Taste preference is different for all. Your options 2/3/4 do have more bitterness (IBUs) than is typical for a cream ale style, but you may like the additional hops. Option 1 with Liberty should have a lighter bitterness and would be more in line with typical cream ale styles. Hope that helps...

For try to move them to a warmer spot (70f or so). It greatly speed up the process. Your beer should have plenty of yeast no need to add.