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I just found a chest freezer for a good price that I plan on using for fermentation. I already have a converted chest freezer for serving on which I use the digital Johnson Controls controller. I was wondering if anyone could recommend a slightly less pricey controller that will still perform...

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I believe the packaging date is approximately 6 months earlier than the "Best by" date...

Mount it vertically and cut down the length of hose, especially the inlet hose...

29258 + 5 Gallons Bitter 29263

The Basic Brewing guys did a video on a Mr. Beer batch they brewed. There are some great tips on how to get more out of your kits. Doing some of these things will also help you ease into brewing extract and steeping grains on a little larger scale.

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Sounds exactly like diacetyl... Nothing to be done for it. I have had some issues with my pale lagers and diacetyl in the past. In the future, ferment at a lower temp (~50ºF) and raise it up to 65ºF or so about 2/3 of the way through fermentation.

I believe that it is best to aerate prior to adding the yeast. I don't think it will ruin a batch or anything, but yeast are better off not being battered around. You don't have to help your yeast by mixing it in. It does a fine job of that all by itself.

I tried that and they all melted... :p

Thanks for the chance...

For some reason, your thread title made me think of this... But seriously, when I grew hops I trained a few likely looking bines and cut the rest back.

Get a Better Bottle and you can watch the show worry free. :)

It's not necessary to rinse Starsan, hence, this...

18686.5 +5.5 Gallons Hefeweizen 18692

You may not be waiting long enough... Keep it submerged for a few seconds before placing your thumb over the end. The hole on the end is small and the thief doesn't fill instantaneously.

Lagering is usually done at as close to freezing as possible. (~32-34F) Force carbing is usually done at or near serving temps.

Yep, using the dry version of the same strain works just as well. I used 2 sachets of US-05 in my last IIPA. (1.080-1.014)

No. That would be ~300 billion viable cells. It would however, be much cheaper to make a starter with 1.