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Doing my first beer (ipa) in a primary for 3 weeks and I want to get clear beer. I heard that cold crashing for a couple days helps the dead yeast settle to the bottom and really helps clear the beer. What is your thought of cold crashing? Is it worth the effort or should I just forget about it?

Okay thank you! Helped out a lot. Hopefully get good results with my first go!

Sorry for grammar errors, typing from a phone... And if anyone has a co2 chart that'd be perfect!

Just bought everything to put together a kegerator. I get it in a week and my beer is done in a week so it's perfect. My question is I have seen some people talk about force carbonation right hen they out it in the corny and hear that it works for people, also I have heard to just let it sit at...

Cody from Olympia! If anyone wants to do some homebrew trading pm me!

18,407.5+5=18,412.5 5 gallon batch of rainy day ipa

16,803+5=16,808 5 gallon batch of rainy day ipa

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Reverse osmosis! Haha all the brew short term is hard to get down!

Okay thank you, if I was to use bottles water would you recommend spring or distilled? I've heard of people using both...

Using city water which water reports show chlorine, sulfur and lead... Damn:/

*switched to star San forte 2nd batch

Well I had two batches turn out bad and it some what tasted like chemicals. I used iodine the first time and I kind of just winged it with the amounts :(. And when it was time to bottle it had a funny smell to it and didn't taste great. And te second batch had that same funny taste, but I...

Is it possible or you to over sanitize equipment and lead to an off taste in your batch of beer?

just looked up my water report and it says that for chloride it has 250ppm and 250ppm for sulfate, 1.3ppm for copper and 15ppb for lead. could this be a big reason why my beer didnt turn out right??

Okay thank you all for the good advice:)

Okay thank you! :)

Okay perfect, so if I picked up some pbw then I could use it to clean everything or should I do the pbw and then star San to clean like pots and carbons and what not?

And I'm going to use bottles water from now on. What is preferred distiller or spring water. Heard beer needs certain minerals and what not. Not sure if that's true or not...

Okay thank you, I now have purchased star San and some unscented dish soap to was pots and what not. For the bottle cleaning would it be better to get a tote and fill it with an ounce or two of star San and let te bottles fill up for like a half hour or so? And if I so that should I still rinse...