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Two. I have only one so far, but am thinking of getting a second one.

Here are some more pictures of my cooler.

Today I tested a cooler that I made close to the mother of fermentation, available online. It worked well - I put three 1/2 gal milk jugs with ice in the evening, and filled a 6.5 gal carboy with the tap water at about 75 degrees. The fan kicked in immediately, and worked all night. In the...

All right, I am doing a single fermentation, and this coming Tuesday it will be two weeks since I brewed this batch. The instruction sheet which came with this Samuel Adams Boston Ale clone says that the final gravity has to be 1.012. Well, today I measured gravity, and after temperature...

Thanks for the great thread! Considering the price and my overall dislike of chemicals, I'll probably use a dremel. I did a few letters on a glass mug today, and it seems to be all right - doesn't go anywhere deep.

Did anybody try to mark a carboy from outside with a dremel and a diamond bit? I would like to make something like a ruler with quarts and gallons marks, but I am not sure how safe it is. I am talking about a 6.5 gallon Italian glass carboy purchased at AHS. Thanks for any ideas!

Thanks everybody for welcoming! I am already lost in this ocean of beer information :-)

I meant to say that when the paper is closer to the wall it hangs in a more accurate way and occupies less space in the bathroom.

No way! It's just ugly when it goes over. And it takes more space. Aesthetically, going under is the only way to go.

In Texas the tap water is not that cold even in winter (which rarely lasts for more than a couple weeks anyway), so I decided to go a two stage way. I bought two 20' lengths of 3/8'' copper tubing at the Orange Despot and a 5 gal bucket. Then I took a stripe of 1/8'' iron, welded plates for in...

Hello! I am originally from Russia, and I badly missed bread (I mean real bread) starting with day one on American land. As a result, I had to teach myself how to bake bread. In a couple of years I was able to get the taste and crumb that I wanted. Now, after baking bread for about ten years I...

Has anybody compared the bubbling rate of the s-type vs three-piece airlocks? Do they allow the same amount of bubbles per unit of time to escape from the carboy/bucket/whatever? Ideally, one has to use a T-connector and attach both at the same time to compare :-)

I forgot to tell about another minor difference between my two batches: for the first I used an airlock with a plastic insert, while for the second it was a one piece airlock. Can it be that the latter requires more pressure to force the gas through the water? In a two piece design the gas just...

Thanks for a peace of mind! I was really worried this morning... But now I am confused - how can it be that airlock activity is irrelevant? It seems to me that hydrometer and airlock are just two sides of the same coin: yeast consume sugars (density of beer decreases, so the points get lower)...

I tried the search, but didn't find anything related to my question, so I hope some experts will explain to me what is going in in my carboy. Here is the deal. Two days ago, I brewed a batch of the AHS version of Samuel Adams Boston Ale. Half pound of Crystal malt 10L, 6 lbs Extra light pale ale...