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Ugh. There's probably a good chance of killing the good taste I got out of it, no? Better than exploding shards of glass I suppose... You don't think chilling, venting and recapping will work?

I'm not sure if it's better to start a new thread or add in here (I don't want to derail), but I just had a bottle explode on me last night. As I thought through my steps, I realized I added way too much priming sugar....like a 1 pound of corn sugar for 5 gallons....yeah. I have no excuse...

I'm currently fermenting a Rogue Dead Guy in a Cool-Brewing bag. It needs to ferment at 60 degrees and ambient temps are in the low to mid 70s in my house I'm using a water bath and dropping 3 small water bottles twice a day. It's a doing a great job. I placed the cooler bag in a...

After reading a bit here, I am convinced that sticking to primary is best in most cases. So if you were moving to secondary for fruit, you would move it when you hit final gravity? I have been talked out of using fruit this time, lol. Just curious for next time. I considered splitting half off...

Wanted to give an update. Like you all said, the brew is doing great! Fermentation slowed significantly so I tested the gravity. Hit 1.014. Recipe says final is between 12-14. So I think I will let it go a few more days It smells great, color is golden brown. It's cloudy, but its a wheat so I...

By way of update, I got home tonight and it was bubbling. So I'm at least getting fermentation lol! It was bubbling every 2-3 seconds. The water bath surrounding the bucket was at 67 degrees. I tossed in 4 frozen water bottles to keep it cool Here is the recipe per thisisbeer's request :) It's...

Great advice. Thank you.

This one was a wheat, so I guess I may lose some balance. I'll post the recipe in here when I get home from work tonight I was also planning on adding some fruit for second fermentation. In this case, strawberries since they are in season. Any tips on that?

Interesting. The recipe called for pitching at 80. But looking at the label on the dry yeast packet, it listed 77 as the max, so I figured 75 would be OK. For temp control, I bought one of those large buckets with the rope handles. I left the ice that I used for the cold bath in there...

Hey all! Seems like a great community here. I didn't see my issue specifically in the stickies, so I'd like to post it here Through a combination of unexpected visitors and a propane tank going empty, I never got my wort to a complete boil. I would say that I had the hop pellets going for...