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And caps I threw in a little plastic bucket with .5 ounce of iodine and let soak for 20 mins and washed off afterwards( with tap water:( )

It was an Irish red ale and it was held at 68 degrees. And I cleaned my bottle by dumping iodine in each one and a little water and scrubbing with my bottle brush for about 15 seconds each and washing out with a bottle washer and hung on a bottle drier for about 20 minutes to dry. And my water...

I purchased an all grain kit at my local brew store and I made it the day of. It was my first time using all of the supplies(racking cane, auto siphon, spoon, bucket, carboy, etc). I did use my faucet water which I know isn't the best, but I sanitized everything very well, with the iodine...

Whoops I was over thinking too much! Haha.

Okay will do! What did you use to insulate your heater?

That's why I'm hoping for! Now tonight I think I'm going to tackle that paint can heater project. Does it seem to work fairly well for you?

Freshly put together stc1000, next in line is to buy a chest freezer and kegs! Keep you posted

Bigfloyd you're a life saver, that is probably one of the sweetest setup a for temperature control and I'm glad to say it was a total success! Thank you:)

Hey just tried hooking up my stc 1000 just like how you sent the link, all is working well but when we went to te cooling part it just flashed and got no juice to that outlet. The heating outlet worked when it was supposed to and shut off when it was done heating.. Any help is appreciated

Okay thanks a lot! I'm debating on building an insulated box that would hold a carboy in it.. What would you recommend to cool it with if I went this route?

I'm still kind of fresh to the brewing process but I will do my research and ask around and see if we can figure this one out! This beer is well worth the effort! :)

Okay that makes sense, I've been doing research but you just answered all my questions right there. That's my project for the weekend:)

I could movie it intone closet but the temperature varies from a little below sixty to 65ish so not sure how the beer will react in that environment

Okay thank you, do you use the fridge temperature control for the cooling or how does that work?

Okay both of those helped a lot, just deciding which route I want to go with this!

Can anyone help me out to find things to put together for a temperature control for my brew. Want to be able to stick my brew bucket, carboy, bottles etc in it and have no idea where to start and what I'll need to buy...

I have the bottles sitting in my room under the blanket so if I take it off then light will hit them. Do you think it's worth taking the blankets off?

Alright thanks for the info! I just got impatient but if good beer will happen in a couple more weeks then I'll just have to force myself to leave it alone and do it's thing!

Okay thank you, I have just heard that some don't like it cuz it adds more oxygen into the beer and increases chances of contamination. Thanks for the advice tho!

The directions say to move the beer from te secondary fermenter to a racking bucket before bottling, I am just curious if that is the recommended way to do so or to just bottle from the secondary