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What about if you wrap a towel around it that sits in a tub of water in order to cool it? My guess is that is just as bad.

Congrats! What did you make?

you can also take a boat to inisheer ( sp? ), the smallest Aran island. I loved it. the boat ride was rocky but beautiful.

I brew in a one bedroom apartment in NYC with one air conditioner. I get the living room as cool as can be and then start brewing. The only really tough part is cooling the wort but an ice bath at the end should bring it down to pitching temp.

I had brewed years ago so i went with the old school way of doing things. My next batch I am just dumping into the fermenter.

I must be doing it wrong because every time I rack from the brew pot to the fermenter I get hops clogged in the auto-siphon. After cooling, I stir in order to create a whirlpool and let it sit for 15 minutes. I try to hold the siphon high in order to avoid any hop remnants, I use plugs. But bits...

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I get frustrated with the auto-siphon whennracking frmm the brew pot to the fermenter. No matter how careful I am it get clogged, rather quickly, with hops and is a real pain to clean. I end up pouring through a sanitized screen type strainer. On my next batch I am skipping the auto-siphon...

Last night I went to an Austrian restaurant in Manhattan. It's an excellent gourmet restaurant. They only had 1 austrian beer, Goesser ( don't know how to do an umlaut ), the rest were German. They did have a few wheat beers including a Berliner Weisse ( forgot the brand ). I thought that when...

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I honestly have no plans and sort of don't care. I was supposed to go to a friend's house in the evening, eat hamburgers, drink beer and watch them light some illegal fireworks with their kids. But they couldn't get fireworks so they moved it to a friend's place a bit out of the city and that...

Why can't you remove the bottom shelf and clear compartment? If you rested the carboy on the bottom would that work or is it at an angle?

I don't think that this is correct. It will sanitize fine but will last a long time if you use distilled water. I suppose if you have water that is very high in calcium there may be a problem. But regular tap water will work fine. I wonder if one saves any money by using distilled water as...

It give a dry Pickering taste, it's described as tasting like tea where you left the bag in too long.

I'm the dishwasher but I do have a bottle washer attachment for my faucet.

One thing is to not squeeze the grain bag too much or you'll extract too much tannins. Feel free to squeeze your yo-yo as much as you want.

I dried them on a bottling tree but then stored them right side up in 6-pack containers.

I have some bottles that were cleaned and then stored in a closet. Is there any reason to clean them again other than rinsing? If so, how long in PBW? I am not looking to skip sanitizing in Star-San, just soaking in PBW. Thanks!

I was covering the kettle with aluminum foil but I decided to leave it uncovered to let it cool quicker on my last brew. It definitely cooled quicker but I haven't bottled yet so I don't know if I had any infection problems. I brew indoors so there is no chance of leaves or bugs.

I have 2 fermentors, one is a carboy and the other is a plastic bucket. What is the most accurate, but relatively easy, way to monitor the temperature of the beer as it is fermenting? I currently have my bucket in a tub with water and a towel and fan arrangement to fight the heat but I am flying...