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Beautiful beer! :mug:

Hahahaha! Fun with brewing. :mug:

I used this product when I put 2½ gallons of wort in a 3-gallon glass carboy. I used a 7 gram packet of Coopers dry yeast, which always makes a huge krauesen. The Fermcap appeared to work because the krauesen never got bigger than about 2 or 3 inches, whereas many times it has climbed up right...

I only use dry yeast because I buy all my brew ingredients on the internet, plus my town in southern California gets very hot in the summer (often over 100 degrees for weeks), so no liquid yeast would survive. I have found Coopers yeast works great and tastes fine when fermented under 70 or so...

I find that the efficiency is 75% with Maris Otter and brew in a bag method. It is only 70% with American 2-row. All other things are the same. Maris Otter is a great malt!

Thank you for this excellent tutorial. I find that the efficiency also is dependent on the type of malt used. Maris Otter has a lot of diastatic power and I can get 75% efficiency with it.