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Thanks!! And you use bottles? not a keg? Also I have noticed that during active fermentation a lot of heat is generated. Is less heat produced after active fermentation?

I brew half batches, so 2.5 gallon with a 3 gallon carboy. I cut a hole in the lid and sprayed foam inside the lid to help with insulation. The hole is to allow room for my air lock and to run cords out of the cooler Inside the cooler I have a tiny aquarium pump circulating the water. I...

Hi, I brewed an IPA on Sunday, and wanted to get some input on cold crashing and dry hopping and timings. I am not going to use a secondary, since I have read it does not make any difference. I do not have a fridge so I will have to cold crash in a cooler I modified for fermenting (see...

I have noticed that if I spray some starsan on the sides and bottom is the bucket it gets rid of the smell I have read here that the smell will not harm your next batch

Interesting. I never thought of that.

Yeah, i put it in the fridge for a few days prior to drinking them. Then pop one open and pore it into a glass

I bottled an IPA a few weeks ago and the hoppy-ness of each bottle seems different. Some are more hoppy than others. I know the favor can change over time however the change is not going in one direction. For example the first bottle I had was very hoppy then the next few we're not so hoppy...

A couple of reasons: -My wife wants a raspberry wheat for the summer -Free up my primary -Dry hopping (I know I can dry hop in my primary) -I want to try and make a lager. One of the books I was reading say to drop the temp for the secondary to 35 - 45.

So I have a 3 gallon glass carboy, and thinking of picking up a 3 gallon Better Bottle to use as my secondary. (I brew 2.5 gallon batches) I have heard that it might not be good to use the better bottle as a secondary since it is plastic. Is this true? I probably would not keep the beer in...

Our house is poorly insulated and has wide temp swings, low 60's to low 70's in the winter. I was reading about using an aquarium heater in a water bath to keep the fermenter at a constant temp. I was going to put everything in the garage where the temp could go down to the mid 40's at...

I poured everything in. Next time after chilling the wort I am going to let things settle in the pot first and then siphon it into my carboy. And the top off with water

I brewed an IPA from extract and 2 hours after transferring it to the carboy I already an inch of sediment, and was wondering where it came from? While transferring it, I ran it through a fairly fine strainer which caught the hops. In fact the strainer got clogged a lot so I had to keep...

I am only boiling 1.5G and adding the extract to that

I am new to brewing (5 or 6 batches in) and brew with extracts in 2.5 gallon batches. After my boils I usually end up with 1.25 gallons of wort and transfer that to my carboy. I need to add more water to reach the 2.5 gallon mark. Should I boil and cool this water first? I have not yet...