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At 45f ambient a lager pitched with enough healthy yeast should actually get up to 48 to 50f.

You want scorching? Look at this and tell me if that wouldn't scorch wort.

I would say you would need to replace the hose to the spray nozzle, and if that hose is under pressure, you would need to isolate that hose from the main water supply before you remove and replace it.

FV = fermentation vessel

You know that now your brew is spoiled beyond repair and you must ship it to me for proper disposal. :-) Relax. I have a brew in primary for the last 3 weeks now. It will soon be ready to package.

Who's taking my name in vain? Make another extra bitter brew and double the hops for flavour and aroma and blend the two brews after they finish fermenting

If you bottled it 3 weeks ago, let it age (lager) for a while. Most of the off odors should weaken.

Welcome Jon. Are you part of any Home Brew clubs in Ontario? I belong to the Members of Barleyment and also Southern Ontario Brewers ( SOB ) virtually. This is a great site to learn from. There are a lot of regulars posting here with loads of knowledge, and any questions should be answered...

And if that is a plastic cube you are fermenting in, I would make sure it was really clean before using it again. If you get another infection in that cube, toss it.

For those of you using a pulley system on your Barley Crushers, do you worry about all the strain on the bushings on the mill, and if it would be covered under your warrenty?

Pick up the keg from him, rack to it and purge with CO2. Then you have less to worry about regarding O2 pick up.

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I never do it, but sometimes limit my bines to 3 to 4 shoots per plant.

All my grain is older than that I'm sure. It's not like we get fresh grain every time we buy a sack.

Where are you at? I'm sure you could have bought it locally for much cheaper than have it imported.

You could try to re pitch new yeast at high krausen to kick start it again, taking into account the alcohol already in there affecting your yeast.

Not now. Are you sure it is stuck and could it be that it is finished?

Only rootbeer? I have entries into http://www.werthogs.com/1.html competition to be judged on the 24th of this month. Welcome to HBT

I didn't think anything would work on those bottles. I'm sure star-san don't work, as I'm after trying that myself.