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Sounds like the 12 in. is the one to get. I wonder why they recommended the 10 in. Perhaps they meant for the 5 gal. cooler.

I was looking at false bottoms on the Midwest Supplies site. I was planning to buy a 12" false bottom to use in a 10 gal. Home Depot Cooler that I am going to buy. However, along with a 9" and 12" false bottom, they list a 10" which is described as "fits 10 gallon Rubbermaid coolers." Now...

I was at the LHBS Friday to buy ingredients for a recipe that I brewed today - a modified brown American. While at the store, my brain went on vacation and I somehow ended up grinding an extra pound of chocolate malt. Now it sits in my refrigerator waiting to be used. Does anyone have a recipe...

I do leave the lid off for the boil and replace it when I'm cooling. I'm gathering from your comments that it is fine to leave the lid off for the whole cooling process. Isn't there the chance of airborne infection during the period after the temp reaches 160?

Two silly questions: I brewed today and everything seems to have gone well - the ESB extract kit from morebeer.com. I did my second full boil so I used my wort chiller to chill the wort. My silly question is that with the chiller in, the pipes that bring the water in and out prop the lid of...

Thanks. This is really helpful.

I entered all the ingredients into Beersmith to get the estimate I got. AHBS suggests 3 yeasts to use for this beer and it seems to be the yeast that causes most of the difference. I used White Labs Burton Ale with an attenuation of 72% according to Beersmith's yeast table. The highest...

I brewed Austin HB's Nipper IPA kit two Sunday's ago. It managed to survive blowing the lid off the plastic fermenter one night, and having taken a couple hydrometer readings, it actually seems to taste pretty good. Two days ago, I did a hydrometer reading (9 days in) and got a reading of...

I just bought a turkey fryer and will be doing some full boil extract brews. Most kits, like AHB Nipper IPA which I brewed last week, specify boiling half and then topping up. Will doing a full boil rather than a half boil affect the amount of hops needed to attain the recipe's IBU?

How common is this! My first was a Mr. Beer American Devil IPA. SWMBO was so impressed that one day as we drove past the local home brew store (Culver City Home Brewing) she asked if I perhaps I might be considering the idea of stopping in. Reluctantly :D, I said I might consider it. To make...

Well, my IPA exploded. I have 5 gallons in a 6 gallon plastic bucket. OG was 1.061. Last night, some time between 1 AM and 6 AM, the airlock clogged up and the top of the fermenter blew off. This morning I sanitized the lid and airlock and replaced them. So far, after a few hours, the airlock is...

I did my first batch, a Belgian ale in January. I cracked the first bottle after 2 weeks in the bottle and it was bitter. After three weeks, it was still bitter and I thought maybe it was infected. Then this weekend, after about a month, I was pleasantly surprised to be drinking what turned out...

Thanks for the advice. As it happens, I took a look at my 10 pound take which is starting to get a little worse for the wear. I ended up getting a 20 lb. tank which I will use for both. So, I got to use the new fryer for a full boil extract IPA on Sunday afternoon -- much easier than using an...

Having the bug bad, I just bought a cheap Bayou Classic 30 qt. turkey fryer at Home Depot. I was planning to use the 10 lb. propane canister that is attached to my barbecue, not feeling overly comfortable with having a backyard full of propane tanks. When I got home, I opened the fryer and saw...

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