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I really like your little mason jar fittings for your tubing. Where'd you find those?

Thanks everyone for the info

ok thanks, maybe i'll give it a try

I thought I saw a post about this somewhere last year, but I can't find it. I have an old school upright freezer with the coils inside. Is it possible to move them around to make the freezer usable for a fermentation chamber? Its a really cool vintage freezer thats just been sitting in my...

I'm tired of the swamp cooler. I'm gonna pull the trigger on a used deep freezer to use as a fermentation chamber. I've got some space in the garage I'm looking forward to setting up as a brewing area. So other than the freezer and an inkbird temp controller, what else do I need? It's...

I chose not to decant this time, just threw it all in since it wasnt very big. It just started showing signs of life about a half hour ago, and its already throwing out some explosive bubbles. I'm a bit nervous because I tried to cram 5.5 gallons into my fermenting bucket which might hold 6.5...

Thanks for the advice. I got off early today, so I'm gonna brew it up this afternoon.

Thanks. I've never made a starter so I dont know how important it is to reach the correct cell count. I didnt get to brew yesterday because the krausen on the starter didnt stop growing until around 5 pm, which didnt leave me enough time. I probably wont have time to brew for another two or...

On the advice of some of you here, I postponed my brew day last sunday because my liquid yeast needed a starter. I almost threw it in and hoped for the best, but I didnt want to mess this recipe up. "Juicy Sundrops NEIPA" from Home Brew Supply.com. OG:1.075, Imperial Yeast Barbarian (200...

I guess I'll bite the bullet and learn to make a starter.

This yeast came with an extract kit. I'm not real happy that they suggested a yeast that will not work with the kit.

Date on the bag is 3/8/18. Target OG is 1.075. NEIPA. According to that calculator, I need 310 billion cells, and I only have 93 billion viable cells

Brew day's tomorrow and I'm using a liquid yeast for the first time. Imperial yeast Barbarian A04. Should I make a starter for this? I've never made a starter before.

I've had early success with my IPA's with two weeks in primary, dry hop (if applicable) for around 5 days, then cold crash for two days or go straight to bottling. I did do a double IPA last month, ABV 9.5 that if I had to do it again, I probably would have put it in a secondary and cold crashed.

I'm sure answers will vary on this. But for IPA's, in general, how many weeks of bottle conditioning before the beer reaches its peak flavor/aroma? I have been experimenting myself with labeling and refrigerating different weeks to try and pinpoint the best conditioning length. Just curious...

Yes I have used the bathtub or swamp cooler method several times now with us-50 and made some damn good beer. I didnt even use ice. I just filled it up with water around 65 degrees, put the fermenter in water, and draped a towel over it and let the bottom of the towel hang in the water...

Wow. Your a legend. Thanks!

When using a priming calculator to determine the amount of priming sugar needed before bottling, which temperature do you use? The fermentation temp, current temp at the time of bottling, or the temp at which the bottles will be conditioning? And how does cold crashing effect this? As a side...

I've been using the brewers friend scoring sheet and the BJCP beer scoresheet to rank all my favorite beers. Just to help me better evaluate my own home brews. Is there a standard scoring sheet out there I should be using? I've noticed some of my local beer stores have scores posted from time...

ok cool. Thanks everybody