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do you use the lalvin 1118 dry wine or champagne yeast?

I would love to try this one but I dont have equipment to keg for secondary and cool, could I secondary at 65deg?

Thanks a lot, makes way more sence now. thats perfect I live in denver would you think I could cover it on my north facing patio in the day about 45-50deg and bring it in at night for a couple of days?

really? secondary won't clear it more?

so you added 1 more can of concentrate when you bottled it? to carb it? did you have to add priming sugar too?

it's down to about 68, have fan blowing on the towel covering it . I hope that helps. should drop to mid 60's for rest of ferm, 3 weeks then 2 secondary?

Reading a lot and trying to figure out what mead recipe I want to try. so the dumb question I have is- in everyones recipes the sugar added has a # after it , does that mean lbs? #=lbs ? that seems right but im new at this :confused:

Thanks RM-MN im learning as I go, right now it's a nice creamy deep yellowish color. so you think 3 weeks in primary? I have a secondary I was gonna do for 2 weeks also then 2 weeks in bottle. you think 7 weeks will do the trick?

im new to brewing but would like to brew a small mead batch to try it out. I have a mr beer 2 gal. was thinking about putting a air lock in top of it maybe using some plumers tape to seal the big screw on top. any feed back or a good 2 gal recipe?:mug:

yeah i pitched at 75

ok so I brewed a batch of american cream ale tuesday night. everything went great 6 gallon carboy primary.yeast active instant, wed night air lock blew off so put an overflow tube on. bubbled all night, thursday morning no more sound or bubbles I could see so went to investigate. temp was around...

Hello everyone, excited to be here. it's hard to think I have been drinking for 20 years and just brewed my first 5gal batch last night. there is so much I want to brew and so many questions I am gonna have I am glad to be in such great company :rockin:

Thanks , yeah I put a blow off tube on it . Just don't want to loose any of that delicious brew :drunk: thanks again Fuzze.

So when I was at work tonight my air lock blew off my primary, just brewed it last night. my wife said she heard it around 7 and I got home around 10 and put a cap with a hose into a bucket on it. did I screw up my brew? there was a towel over it so my place is not covered thank god.:rockin::rockin:

brewed my first full batch of american cream ale last night woo hoo. used hop pellets from kit. at end of boil and cool down used funnel w/screen to transfer into fermenter. scraped hops of screen and discarded them (were cloging screen) my question is , should i not have screened? is it gonna...