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So how long to bottle condition? I know normal beer is 3 weeks. How long for big beers?

This happened to me on my last partial mash. Wort chiller leaked an extra gallon of water into my bk. turned out to be one of the best beers I've made. Ironic huh? Ill try this recipe again, this time without the extra gallon. Hopefully it will be even better!

I made an Indian brown ale all grain kit from Midwest, just checked gravity and everything looks good. Went from 1.072 to 1.012. So it's sitting around 8%. By far my biggest beer to date. It's been in primary for 8 days. I know big beers need more time, so how long should I primary, and how...

Haha, nice point. I didn't drain into my bk cause I had all my sparge water in it. So I needed to drain it somewhere...

Ok, just didnt know if the plastic could handle those temps. Didnt want to leach any plasticky flavors!

I know, was being lazy! I thought I remembered seeing something on here about it being ok to do, then after I did it, I was second guessing myself. It's been in there now for a while, so hopefully it will be ok...

So I just mashed, sparged, and drained about 6.5 gallons of hot wort (or is it extract?) into my bottling bucket. I plan to brew it tonight. Will it be ok sitting in the bucket for a few hours? I'm just worried about the temp. It's probably 150-160 degrees. Will it be ok?

So I just mashed, sparged, and drained about 6.5 gallons of hot wort (or is it extract?) into my bottling bucket. I plan to brew it tonight. Will it be ok sitting in the bucket for a few hours? I'm just worried about the temp. It's probably 150-160 degrees. Will it be ok?

I know I can mash now, get me boil qty, and save it for boiling later. I want to mash now, then boil it tonight. Anything I should consider before proceeding? I plan to leave my boil qty in brew kettle with lid on for like 7-8 hours. Anything wrong with this?

I think your medium chunky salsa has gone bad!

Link to Great Lakes? I can't seem to find them on google???

I'm looking for a place that will ship them now. Most places I've seen say they will only ship in late march or early April. I live in Florida and want to get a head start growing them before it gets too damn hot ( Aka march :p) !

Definitely use a bag of some sort. I just threw some hop pellets in fermenter and Waited 5 days, they never settled. Hop matter was everywhere. Had to use a mesh bag over auto siphon when racking to bottling bucket....

I use a plastic fermenter and a swamp cooler. I also use big blocks of ice, like bricks, to keep the swamp water in the low sixties. I haven't had a problem with stuck or dormant fermentation, except the dreaded 1.020 fg extract problem a few times, which I was getting before I started using a...

Cascade pale ale 3.3lbs light lme 4lbs American 2-row malt 8oz carapils 8oz caramel 10L 3oz cascade hops US-05 safale yeast 11.5 grams IBUs = 48 OG = 1.052 AL % = 5.2% Mash the 5lbs of grains with 1.6g of water at 152* f for 1 hr. Mash out at 170* f for 15 minutes. Vorlouf as needed until...

Long story short: made a cascade pale ale partial mash, wort chiller leaked about an extra gallon of water into brew kettle. Ended up with six gallons, not five. Og was 1.045, was shooting for 1.052. Is this going to make the beer taste watered down and less flavorful? I was hoping for a...

Well, airlock is bubbling away, 14 hrs after pitching. So we'll see...

Is it possible and reliable? Need to ditch the vinyl tubing the stainless steel IC came with. Was thinking of soldering copper tubing to it, but not sure about the different metals...

I unfortunately kept getting a stuck sparge, so I had to keep stirring to keep it going. I have a braided hose in my mash tun. Anyway to keep it from getting stuck?

The vinyl tubes are getting scrapped. Ill either get silicon or solder something on. Not dealing with this again. The tap water is city water. But we don't drink it. It's really hard and chlorinated...