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Hey guys, I have decided that fermenting at 80 or so isn't such a good idea. So I am in the market for a tub for making an water bath for my fermenter. My question is this. Would buying an insulated 10 gallon beverage cooler (ie. igloo, coleman) be better than buying something like this...

I'm using bombers too so I can minimize the amount of bottles to fill.

sorry, hydrometer. I also looked a bit more on here and it looks like I should prime with the normal amount.

So, I have a beer that I am bottling today. I mashed too hot, and the FG finished at 1.034. It has been that for 2 weeks. Do i need to make any adjustments to calculating the amount of priming sugar since I still have a lot of sugar in there? Or will it be the same since the are...

Thanks for all the replies so quickly!! It sure does say 159 in byo, but I have seem some posts in forums about this recipe and some have wondered if it was a misprint. I think I'll just take the 1.034 and be glad is isn't way higher!

Hey guys. Looks like my fermentation has stopped a bit early. Looking back on it I'm pretty sure I underpitched, fermented way too warm, and possibly under aerated (all of which will be fixed from now on.) I brewed the Dreadnaught recipe listed here from BYO, but I did 2.5 gallons BIAB so the...

Here is the mill - mtn gearsmith grain mill http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051MQ14Q/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 Is this similar to a corona mill, and would it work?

So all is said and done. Just went the easy way, and threw everything in all out of the bags the way it came. 75% efficiency. Lesson learned....don't over think things.

Just got done with a double ipa, The Three Floyd's dreadnaught clone in BYO. After the boil, I took a reading of 1.082, better than I expected for first all grain. When I drank the hydrometer sample, I was amazed at the lack of hops in the sample even though I calculated 107 ibu's. Could it...

Hey guys, doing my first biab tomorrow! Got a quick question though. I bought my grains pre-crushed from northern brewer since I do not live close to a lhbs. The bags have a lot of grain dust in them which in no way can be held in the grain bag. Should I dump it in, or try to avoid it at all...

Just wanted to add my 2 cents after reading this post. I didn't have so much as a boil over as I did a splash over from stirring to hard, but a small amount of wort sat on the stove during the whole 60 min boil. It was pretty much concrete. Tried oxiclean and baking powder and neither worked...

Hey everybody, new brewer here and I have a quick question. I have been looking at making my own bottling bucket from a 2 gallon icing bucket from my local bakery. The spigots at my LHBS and online say "for 6.5 to 7.9 gallon buckets." Would it be okay to use one of these or are there...