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I've been listening to The Jamil Show some and they mentioned that an Irish Red should ferment at 66F. I have always worked to do my fermentation above 70 degrees as the WLP bottle says it should be above 70. Would anyone mind telling me what fermenting at a lower temp will do for my beer and...

Awesome! Thanks Deathbrewer! Can't wait to get this Irish Red and try everything out!

Thanks for this post - brewing this weekend and this is really going to help me improve my process. I'm new to home brewing - did 2 Extracts then jumped into mini-mash for the past 4 batches. I have a couple questions I hope you (or anyone) could help me with I really like your idea of tea...

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Yeah thats actually the guide I was reading. Really great guide. The folks at my LHBS told me the ladel technique, but the dipping into the sparge water as outlined in that guide seems much easier! I was just wondering if one method is preferable to the other.

Great! Thanks Yooper! I can guarantee that I won't be giving up any time soon! All grain is in my future - just gonna get mini's down pat first. I'm just loving this hobby. Can't wait to get this mini-mash and make these improvements! Sounds a bit like making rice honestly - get it to...

OOOOHHHH I'm supposed to be stirring this guy up?! I've been taking the "don't sqeeze the bag" all wrong then. So I should be stirring the grains inside my grain bag while i do this? Great info - I'm learning so much from these boards! So you just plop it in the cooler and forget about it for...

Oh wow - so you don't even leave it on a burner while you steep? Just heat it up to a target temp, insulate the pot, cover it up and let the grains steep for an hour? or do you leave the pot in the oven you set for 157?

Thats a damn nice ass! Great video clip as well. Glad I stumbled in on this thread :P

Here is a great thread on sanitizers and cleaners (like Oxyclean) that has helped me a lot! https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/sanitizer-question-54932/

I have used the mini-mash method for the last 3 batches of beer - 2 batches are sitting in bottles and the first turned out pretty well. I really like to make notes on try on previous batches - figure out what went well, what went right, where can I improve/streamline the process. A...

Really - my LHBS said it was ok to bottle in. I have it inside a 5 gallon bucket with the lid on just in case though! I sure hope it doesn't blow!

Ok - Thats something I was wondering about. After you open up the growler - how long can you keep it around before it goes flat?

I hope so! I just bottled in it. Hopefully I didn't over or underfill...could be exciting though.

Awesome! Thanks. So if I'm leaving an inch or so I probably shouldn't fill it all the way to the lip, like i do my bottles? Maybe a half inch under? Out of curiosity, what happens if you underfill? Does it blow up? or does it just not carbonate?

So I went to the local home brew shop today to pick up some things and my Dad wanted to come check it all out with me. He decided to pick up a growler so I could just bottle him up a growler and he can just use that instead of me giving him a 6 pack. So, is bottling into a growler the same...

Just used Oxyclean to clean a round of bottles - wow. Dropped them in, went on a run, checked my email, messed around online (about 1.5 hours total) and the labels were all floating on top of the buckets! Pretty amazing. I did have to rinse them really well and might give them another rinse...

I think in that podcast (great podcast btw, been listening/watching a lot of them) he said that it doesn't kill the good bacteria in your septic system.

Awesome! Any magical dilution? Or 1/2 cup per gallon of warm water for you? And you give everything a rinse after this cleaning, right?

Just bought a 15lb thing of oxyclean at Costco today actually for this purpose. I noticed it had all these blue beads in it. I imagine those are purely for marketing it as high tech, but just to double check - I didn't somehow get an oxyclean that has soap in it and these are normal and safe for...