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I have lots of questions, but they all are dependant on my first question. Allow me to explain myself. My wife is pregnant and I decided to make a brew in honor of our kid! Then my thought went one step further thinking maybe I could do a barleywine that could condition until my kid is at...

FRUSTRATED! SomI taped everying up with foil tape AND I added the hole in the bottom for airflow through both cooling chambers. I hit a whopping 70 degrees! The problem has to be the front and top doors. I found one big leak there and added more weather stripping. I blame it on a mix of my...

I must have missed this in the original plans also...

Well mine looks pretty close to yours. He explanation about holes in the bottom being a bad idea does make sense. When I got home the temp was down to 72 and I hadn't done anything to it since changing the ice this morning. The yeast must be calming down. I think I am going to leave it be...

Well I bought some foil tape to install tonight. We will see if that fixes things. Beergolf, no hole in the bottom of the baffle yet, but if the tape doesn't solve the problem that will be my next step. I thought about making a 3" square hole in the bottom of the baffle and moving the fan...

I may have to go buy some foil tape today. I have the temp probe taped to the fermenter and it reads a pretty constant 75 since I put it in there on Sunday and continually switching out ice jugs. The air temp is probably 5 degrees cooler maybe more, but the wort definitely isn't.

Fan is working and when I put my hand up to the baffle cool air is blowing, just not cool enough I guess. I have the fan set to come on at 75 and cut off at 70. I don't think it has cut off yet. I went with this because it was cheap (which helped convince the wife) and was supposed to work...

This frustrates me especially because I haven't seen any other people on the internet with problems. After I built it I tried it out with no fermenter inside and it dropped to 65 really quick so I was excited. Now that I have beer in there it won't get below 75 (almost room temp, which we...

Well I brewed my first 5 gallon batch today and it went all right. It is a Belgian wit mixed grain kit I got from the local store. I have been doing 1 gallon Brooklyn Brew reicpes for almost 2 years, so the grain mashing was not bad. It was the first time I have ever used the wort in a bag...

This is my first post. I have made several batches of pre-measured ingredient kits over the last year and a half and I have decided it is time to start branching out and get creative. My question is about the effects of lemon or lime juice on yeast. In the past I made a grapefruit ale by...