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So I'm currently working on acquiring a chest freezer to make a fermentation chamber. The one I can get should hold 2 buckets. How long do I need to strictly control fermentation temps? The reason I ask is that in my house it routinely drops below 60 degrees in the winter and can exceed 80 in...

So I brewed my second all grain batch today. First batch went great and I nailed all my numbers. Everything was going great today until I went to vorlauf. I opened the valve a bit, grains came spewing out then nothing. Uh oh. My buddy and I ended up dumping the entire mash tun, grains and all...

This will be my second starter. First starter I did 1 cup DME 1300mL of water and boiled for 15 minutes. Transferred to flask, cooled, then pitched yeast. It worked fine. I just want to know for future reference when a calculator tells me I need a 2 liter, 1.5 liter, etc. starter.

I recently got a yeast starter kit from northern brewer. The directions have me a little confused. It has directions for a 1 liter and a 2 liter starter. The 1 liter directions say to use 650mL of water and the 2 liter directions say to use 1300mL of water. Maybe it's just me, but I was under...

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Yea my mash tun will have a false bottom. I was just wondering if there was any other reason to have one in your kettle. At this point I can't justify that extra expenses but maybe I'm missing something?

I don't plan on mashing in my kettle though.

I've tried searching but none of the threads answer my exact question. I'm considering going all grain after a few extract brews. I need a larger kettle and I'm trying to figure out what purpose a false bottom would serve? I'm currently leaning towards a 10 gallon cooler mash tun and 10...

The nugget nectar clone is 6.6 lbs LME and 1 pound DME. Figured it was safe to call it about 8 lbs of LME. Both are 5 gallon batches, no additional sugar added. The only difference I can see is the nugget nectar has a lot more steeping grains, but it was my understanding steeping doesn't result...

So my first brew is just finishing up fermenting and I already have my next two batches planned. The next batch will be the Dead Ringer IPA. That kit uses 9lbs of lme and has a target OG of 1.064. My next planned brew will be a Nugget Nectar clone from my local hb store. That kit uses 8lbs of...