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josh, good questions: yes pellets, I strained the dry hop batch before bottling, I'm sure it is possible that some of the hops ended up in some of the bottles though I didnt notice when bottling and since drinking I havent noticed. I have drank about half of the dry hopped case. When fermenting...

Duboman, I measured the sugar, I didn't know enough to weigh at the time. Pliney, I will work on the de-gassing this week and let you know. Thanks for the input, so much to know here, this helps a lot!

Sugar was boiled, same process as the regular batch, give or take a few moments in the saucepan. I havent noticed any odd or off smells or flavors in the dry hopped batch, in fact it smells and tastes much better than the first half. I will dry hop again. One thing was different though, in...

Recently I brewed a Caribbou Slobber from Northern Brewer and split my 5 gallon batch in two. One half I bottled in the original recipe, the other half I dry hopped 5 days with 1/2 oz of Fuggle, then bottled. Two weeks later the first batch carbonated just fine, but the second batch with the...

my room temp was dropped to 60, the fermomenter had the carboy temp at about 69. The carboy temp has since dropped to 63 +/-. I raised the room temp back up to 66. Carboy temp settled at about 64. I did extract a little with a wine thief (heavily sanitized) and tasted. Very sweet but my...

ok so far so good then, fermentation took off overnight and I had to switch to a blow off tube instead of the airlock, np. Time to wait and see I guess, thanks for input!

ok, today I brewed the "Bourbon Barrel Porter" from Northern Home Brews and I added the 6.3#'s of Dark malt extract at the same time as the 2#'s of Wheat Malt DME (the beginning of the boil) instead of the last 15 minutes of the boil as the directions said( my mistake). I rehydrated and pitched...

average temp here is in the upper 90's frequently in the 100's so yes. I am thinking about getting a second refer for summer brewing, especially since I'd like to do a lager in the spring for summer enjoyment and some darker beers for the fall and holiday seasons. Thanks for the input

Ok, new brewer here so here goes. Thanks for your replies: 1) I plan to brew several batches this winter because I have no way to control temp in the summer here, so if I bottle in March and April will my beer still be good in December? 2) I'd like to batch several 1 gallon kits but I have...

Thanks for the feedback, I feel better now.

New brewer here, just set my first batch, brown ale, to fermentation 2 days ago. I've been reading to see how and what I'm to expect. The Krausen started after a few hours and got healthy during the first 24 hours, but now is starting to subside. One article I read mentioned a Krausen time...