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Thanks for the info. I'll give my idea a shot and see how it goes. I know NPT is designed to withstand pressure so I feel pretty confident in getting a good seal between the threaded post and the thermowell. As far as ales go then, how much headspace do you allow for your ales when primary...

@McMullan Thank you so much for this. I've been brewing for a little while and I'm thinking about doing pressure fermentation for the first time in a corny keg. Glad I came across this thread and also happy to see it isn't years old. I wanted to ask your opinion with an option I was thinking...

Quick update. Just took my gravity reading after fermentation really cooled down and we are at 1.012. So all is good and bottling is just down the road.

Great to hear! I was thinking that was about where to start, then bump it up at the end. Maybe up to 71 or so to finish primary unless you’ve found a better max temp. Yeah. Currently getting winter again with temps here dropping into the 30’s outside haha. The heaters right now kick on every...

Haha, I did intend for 1.07. Yes, I’ve been using the calculator on Brewer’s Friend. For temp control I’m using a wine fridge as my fermentation chamber. I have a couple inkbird heating mats as warmers. It’s set for 66 degrees with one degree of variability high and low. I’m using a thermowell...

Quick update. Fermentation started within a few hours and is going gangbusters now. It’s filled the headspace with krausen but I expected that and had the blowoff tube already installed. I’ll take a gravity reading after things die down and see where I am at then. Started 1.7 with White Labs 001...

Thanks guys, appreciate the help. I hadn’t realized the cake was there until it poured into the fermenter. At that point i didn’t have a good way of getting more liquid so I just poured what was suspended, even though it was clumpy. I did oxygenate the wort prior and I did end up giving it a...

Hey guys, new here! I’ve done a couple brews and today I was in a big rush when finishing. I decanted a 2L starter, shook the last portion a good amount and poured without looking at it. Turned out a decent amount of the yeast was still a yeast cake. I did end up shaking the wort some but it of...