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Search for Keezer, fermentation chamber, chest freezer, or swamp cooler You will find tons of ideas and ways to do temp control. Many, myself included built a simple and cheap used freezer into a fermentation chamber with the addition a digital temp controller (STC-1000) and some basic...

If you can get a LHBS to swap and option out/In kit pieces and parts to a stock kit,, then Kit is still an option I think. Austin Brew Supply does this.. We started with a top of the line kit, and then swapped in and out pieces I wanted... Then added options, Days later went back and bought...

That's an option.. but leaves you no way to shut off the gas to one keg

If you will be carbing and serving BOTH kegs at the same pressure you can get a manifold to split the gas to two kegs. If you are going to want a different pressure to each keg..get a dual regulator.

Best I can tell from reading, and what I do personally ... "Cold Crashing" normally refers to cooling the beer to around 34 deg F for a few days (or longer) to aid in clearing the beer BEFORE bottling or kegging. The process is used in addition to, or replacement of fining agents.

Or start with The ABHS clone and then adjust as you see fit. I'll be brewing this one again, just because the more I brew, the more I refine my process, and things do change.. While good beer, it was not a great clone..in the manner with which I brewed it. A second or third brewing with a...

Good deal... no matter the kit, it should at least get you some usable components that can be added to yours. Some of the cheapest of kits are, well a little hokey from what I've seen.. They will make beer...and if that is the only requirement... So at worst your friend has a "MR Beer...

I've only brewed it once.. so take it for what it is... but my results tasted nothing like commercial Blue Moon. Those that are drinking it, like it, and ask for a few more bottles every week.... tell me that is a good thing as they don't really like Blue Moon.

1: The folks that made the recipe, say it should be a FG of 1.053. 2: Neither of the two people who brewed this recipe , discussing it in this thread had a FG of 1.050 3: The Mini mash AHBS recipe brewed here, with a recipe specified FG of 1.053, that came out at 1.053 has good flavor, no...

Top off water not mixed well, not a full 5 gal volume, reading not temp corrected, bubbles stick to the hydrometer.. If yours was an all extract brew and you followed the directions, it's hard to miss OG

That's actually a problem ????:D I desire to make as many different beers as I can, each new recipe or recipe version is a chance to create. I have 5 batches in bottles, three in buckets or carboys..... one going to keg in the morning and that leaves an open spot in the new fermentation...

SG is stated to be 1.053 (front page of instructions, bottom of page) Of note.. mine was right at 1.053 when i brewed this a few months ago.. final was 1.010 (recipe spec is 1.012) And second note.... It tastes nothing like blue Moon :) And a final note: Skip the secondary ...it's not...

I've built my second fermentation chamber in about 4 months now.. out grew the first one already.. With that said ..... go as large as you can so you have room to spare.. Im going to sell the one I just built as soon as i find a larger freezer.. I can fit three 6.5 buckets or carboys now, but...

16 days later 5 gal transferred to carboy Specific Gravity of 1.007 :ban: added 1/2 tsp gel in 1/2 cup of boiled water. off to the dark for a few more days.

Ive used spent grain in cookies,,,, the pups love um, no ill effects at all. Trub? umm, no, for all the reasons posted above that makes no sense, nor have I ever seen it suggested..... think someone got some recipe ingredients mixed up...

I assume your using a wing capper If so, You have to be fairly aggressive I've found to get a good crimp, and when i remember to; I crimp, then rotate the bottle 90 deg and crimp again. Turn a few bottles upside down in a plastic tote, bucket, ect.. for a day.. if you come back and find...

I have used it both ways... seems to make no difference. The HEPA filter case cracked last week on brew day... I have no intention of replacing it.

My experience is yes..temp matters a lot. Though 63 ambient temp is pretty good for a lot of yeasts and beers, from what i have learned here and at each yeast manufacture I have used. Would help if you posted the specific beer, it's recipe, and yeast pitched, wort temp when you pitched ect.

1: An all extract kit will have all of the ferment-able sugars in the form of Liquid Malt extract (LME) or Dry Malt extract (DME) 2: Some "extract" kits will have specialty grains that need to be steeped. 3: Some "extract" kits will have specialty grains that need to be steeped and grains...

A: Forgetaboutit.. nothing you can do now,,, it is what is will be. B: My first three brews were done without fermentation temp control.... the 1st was GREAT...the second and third full of off flavors that make the beer barely palatable. C: The time, effort and expense is done, pouring it out...