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I'm gonna check it out on you tube, thank u for the great info!!

I know it's not critical for the temp to be stable for cold crashing but I would check my digital thermometer in the morning and it would be like 36 degrees and in the evening it would be over 40! I cold crashed for 6 days and it was still rally hazy! I figure with a more stable temp I could...

Nice Work!! Does the device only read in celcious? Does the fridge plug into the device?

I have a sanyo 3.7 cubic ft mini fridge and it doesn't keep a constant temp during my cold crash. The fridge varies 3-5 degrees! Is it possible to hook up a external thermostat to keep the temp more constant? I've read some stuff online but am a bit confused, anybody out there have experience...

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Thanks for the help! Gonna make a starter with it to try and clean it up, then store it. Cheers!

I rinsed it again last night then put it in the fridge. This morning I checked it and there is no separation between yeast and trub. It looks like all trub now. Next time I'll try ur method shakes_beer. Thanks for the help!

Ok I won't dump it but I'm gonna rinse it again to see if that makes a difference.

Obviously! All the examples I've seen have had the yeast on top of the trub. Just wondering if there is something wrong with the yeast and if it's still good.

Just wondering why yeast would settle underneath the trub. I am doing a dales pale ale clone and using WLP001

I am attempting to do my fisrt yeast haverst and after washing in the primary I dumped the slurry into a smaller jar and noticed that the yeast has settled on the bottom of the jar, underneath the trub. What does this mean? Is the yeast still good? How do I go about retreiving the yeast...

So I think as long as doing one big sparge with 3.75gal doesn't have a negative affect on my efficiency, ill do that. Thank you!

@Jakenbacon, that was my initial idea but then became concerned that it may affect my efficiency? Is that possible? My first two AG batches i had a 66 and 69% efficiency. I don't have any idea what my ph is yet, should I? Adding 3.75gal as my sparge amount would be the easiest for me but...

I just joined homebrew talk the other day, have asked one question and received some great feedback!! Thank you!! Been brewing for a little over a year doing extract and partial mashes. A month ago i found a rubbermaid cooler on the side of the road and it was in good shape so i converted it...

I was just given an old beer keg and want to convert it to a boil kettle. The problem is my mash tun cooler is 5 gallons and is max'd out with 3.75gal H20 and 12.5lbs of grain. I use a 5gal rubbermaid cooler and do a single infusion mash and 1 sparge. My first runnings are usually around...