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  1. M

    Fermentation chamber: window ac vs minifridge

    Oh wow, yours is the chamber I was talking about! Id love to see some more pics if you have them. What kind of insulation material is that?
  2. M

    Fermentation chamber: window ac vs minifridge

    I'm planning on building a fermentation chamber to live in my garage, which can get above 90 degrees in the summer. I've seen plenty of examples of people building chambers with window unit ACs as the cooling source, but I've also seen one with a minifridge with its door removed and an...
  3. M

    American Brown Ale BBD Brown Biscuit

    Fermentation activity was going strong the next morning and was done in about 2 days. I haven't taken a FG reading yet, but I'm wondering how long to keep this in primary. Fermentation temps have been between 65 and 68F. I'll probably let it stay on the warm side as some sort of ale-based...
  4. M

    American Brown Ale BBD Brown Biscuit

    Brewed this tonight. OG is around 1.060 but I measured a bit warm. Wort tastes nice.
  5. M

    How to Age Anchor Christmas Ale?

    Thanks for all the tips. I have a closet that is on the edge of the north side of the house and isn't well insulated. Its been staying around 60F lately. I've been using it is my beer cellar / ferm. chamber lately. I think I'll keep the Christmas ale in there til it warms up and then move it...
  6. M

    How to Age Anchor Christmas Ale?

    Hmm...assuming my wife lets me, I eventually want to buy an old chest freezer and a temp controller and make a fermentation chamber out of it. If/when that happens, I can cellar in there, I guess.
  7. M

    How to Age Anchor Christmas Ale?

    Well yeah, that would be my first choice :) I'm trying to decide if its better to go warmer or colder as I am not equipped to cellar at proper cellar temps. Or maybe I should just go ahead and drink it...
  8. M

    Sweet Stout Deception Cream Stout

    I bottled this yesterday (after 3 weeks in primary). I had a FG of 1.022. Wasn't as sugary sweet as I had expected...much better balanced. Reminds me a bit of Left Hand's Milk Stout. I can definitely taste coffee, but not chocolate (maybe this will come out as it ages). At any rate, I think...
  9. M

    How to Age Anchor Christmas Ale?

    I had some of the 2007 Christmas Ale the other night and loved it. How should I go about aging the six pack of 2009 Christmas Ale that I just purchased (I'd like to age it a year or two)? It was in the cooler at the store...should I keep it in the fridge or should I "cellar" it at 70F as I do...
  10. M

    Sweet Stout Deception Cream Stout

    Cool. Yeah, I'm using -05 so maybe it will be ready. I just looked in the bucket and the krausen's still there, but is lower than its peak. Looks like i had about 1.25" of Krausen at peak. Sounds good. I brought it in but its near the back door so maybe it will stay more around 68F than...
  11. M

    Sweet Stout Deception Cream Stout

    :mug: A couple more questions: 1. I brewed on the 12/5/09 and would like to bottle on 12/23/09 so that I can give some to my father in law as his christmas present. This would only be 2 and a half weeks of fermentation though. I guess I really should wait, huh? I planned to brew it...
  12. M

    How many times do you re-use bottles??

    I never considered that bottles could only be used a certain number of times. Has anyone experienced this with 22oz bottles? I've got two doz. bombers that I inherited from my FIL that are at least 10 years old and have probably been used at least a dozen or so times. I bottled on sunday...
  13. M

    Sweet Stout Deception Cream Stout

    I also had an OG of 1.07. I followed the extract recipe except did LME instead of DME. I finished the boil with about 4.5 to 4.75 gallons of wert. I went ahead and topped it to about 5.25 gallons to hopefully offset the high OG (I don't know if that will actually work though :D). My...
  14. M

    Dry hop while cold conditioning

    I'm accidentally cold conditioning a I2PA right now while trying to dry hop with 2.75oz whole nugget (the weather got cold real fast and my wife won't let carboys inside the house). I did an intial dry hop of 2oz of nugget for 3 days in the primary, then racked to secondary where I am dry...
  15. M

    Best Way to Recirculate for Immersion Chiller

    Does it make a difference if you're NOT recirculating?
  16. M

    Lubbock Water

    I lived in Lubbock for 8 years and was affraid to even shower in that stuff.
  17. M

    The Best Method for Filtering Post-Dryhopped Beer?

    Just as an update, I used the steel/copper wool method this weekend when racking from a bucket fermenter to a carboy and it worked pretty well. I didn't get any clogs, so my siphon was never interupted (well, except for when I stopped paying attention and let air get in the line) and it...
  18. M

    Wort Chiller Build

    I'm planning on building a wort chiller soon and have similar issues (our tap isn't that warm, but it can get over 80f in the summer). I'm planning on building a prechiller out of either 25 or 50ft of 3/8" copper and an IC out of another 50ft of 3/8" copper. To me, its less moving parts, less...
  19. M

    The Best Method for Filtering Post-Dryhopped Beer?

    I'm going to be trying this with a Choreboy (copper wool rather than SS) soon. I figure I'll just boil it in a quart of water to sanitize it.
  20. M

    What is your favorite IPA yeast besides...

    -05 is hard to beat for its ease-of-use and cost-effectiveness. I would like to give pacman a try though.
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