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I didn't intend for the hops to stay in there so long, but the SG would just not drop so I kept it in there. It's my first brew, so I am just happy it's drinkable, and am happy I learned so much.

So I made my frist brew on easter weekend, and now mearly 2 months later I finally have it in the keg. I was going to crash cool it and then keg, but my carboy won't fit in the fridge, so I just racked and put the keg in there to cool. I am just playing around with trying to balance the...

I have a 5 gallon batch of corona clone in a 5 gallon carboy and it did fine...it is nice to be able to look at it doing it's thing, but I found cleaning the carboy a biznatch, I spent like half an hour trying to get all the starsan foam out, and then adding the wort to the carboy sucked too...

so I stuck my carboy in the keezer yesterday...but I couldn't le,ave well enough alone. I thought it would be better if the thermocouple was inside the freezer instead of in the wall, so I started drilling a hold in the back and guess what I did? I cut through a freezer coil! so I cleaned it...

yeah, I figure I have done all I can, and been patient. Maybe this mornings pitch will get me down to 1010, which would be great, but either way I am drinking it this weekend. Thanks guys. The point of this thread was just to see if cold crashing when things aren't completely done would...

I racked into secondary when the activity had stopped for over a week...the beer was just sitting there, doing nothing. I pitched a second packet of S-04 that I had lying around to get it going and it woke up for a bit, then nothing. (both yeasts were expired btw) This is when I put it into...

BTW I want to cold crash because I want a clear beer (it's going in fluted pilsener glasses) and I don't like the yeasty homebrew taste.

Both of you have mentioned that if the SG is stable then it's done, that's the thing, I am going down 0.001 per week. I used expired yeast and I don't think I oxygenated enough. I don't want to wait for it to get down to 1005, that would take another 2 months! Can I cold crash it now even...

Hey, so I made my first batch over the Easter long weekend, it has been in secondary for like 3 weeks. I am sick as hell of waiting for the damn thing to finish. OG 1044, sofar I am down to 1014...and it is still bubbling like 3 times a minute, so it is going down and the yeast are still...

ok perfect, thanks. I will just let em go and do their thing.

I planted a cascade and nugget rhizome in early may and they are coming along pretty good. The thing is though, the cascade has only sent out one bine. The bine is a couple feet long now and looking healthy and all good, but I would like more bines. Would cutting the bine promote more growth...

I did a hydrometer reading and got 1018...it was 1022 about 3 weeks ago. I am going to give it another week and see, I am just sick of waiting, I am never using crap yeast again! lol

OK, so this batch is still bubbling! it is in the basement at 60 degrees, and bubbling every 10-12 seconds. I made this batch during easter., is there anyway that it is still fermenting? I am getting really ansy to try it out since it's my first batch.

Hiya!

I planted mine 2 weeks ago, and for the first while there was great sunny warm weather, I was watering every other day but there was no apparent growth. Now we have nothing but rain for like a week and they are growing great (slow but steady). I think they like the rain. I am going to...

I made my first batch 3 weeks ago, had issues with the yeast, had to repitch a different brand of yeast (it was all I had) and finally got it going, 2 weeks later my SG had gone from 1044 to 1020, and was stuck, no action. I waited another week and fg was still 1020, and there was no bubbling...

I just went back and realized i missed this, Pantera rule! :rockin: I wish I got to see them. I have seen Down with Rex though, so that was close...sort of, but not really.

Yeah, it was the cerveza kit yeast. In the instructions they say that it is the coopers european lager yeast, and is a true lager strain...I assume it's the lager/ale blend people have mentioned though. I will just keep it in primary for another week, then see what happens in the basement, if...

so do I keep it in primary? or rack and then try to take it down to 55?

ok, sorry to bring this one back, but I have a couple questions. The temp has actually settled down to 63*, and has been going strong for the past few days (almost a week). I thought I would keep it here for 2 weeks. Here is my question though...Since I am fermenting at 63 which is much...