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The thermometer will give you an estimate of the actual temp of the beer. When the fermentation is highly active, the temp of the beer may be a little warmer than the temp of the surrounding water, but if you have one of those sticker thermometers on the side of your carboy you can tell for...

If your house is at 75 the internal temp of the beer will be around 68. It usually keeps the actual beer around 5-10 degrees cooler than the room temp, so you should be fine. I am refering to my set up. If you just use the shirt and the bucket, it will work, but not as well. You may need to...

man, I miss the beer in San Diego. Grew up out there. Great beer is harder to find out here in Phoenix. Gotta make my own!

You can save money by making an evaporitave cooling setup. Just need a small water pump, some tubing, a large tub, a towel, and something to crimp the tubing on. Easy and works great! Keeps it 5-10 degrees cooler than the air.

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Hey Wacko, I'm not sure i understand if that link is an Extract or A.G. recipe. I see extract and 2 row? I am looking for a Hoptober Extract clone if anyone can hook it up. That beer is awesome.

Man I forgot how much beer is lost to the massive amount of trub/pumpkin. It's a shame to have to dump that!

Last time I brewed this I used 1 tsp of Spice in 1 cup water to make the tea, and I found that the spices were a little on the heavy side. It wasn't until months after letting it sit that the pumpkin flavor was able to come through. For my current batch that is in primary i was thinking of...

That's true.. Forgot about the sediment ring on the bottom of the bottles. That technically is one way to tell, but that won't happen until a ways into it.

You wont be able to tell that it is carbonating by looking at the bottles. And don't worry about leaving sediment in your bottling bucket.. The priming sugar that you added will still activate some in the beer and begin the bottle conditioning process. I usually at a little over 3/4 cup of...

Anyone know of any competitions in the Phoenix area for the summer time? They all seem to be around February - April.

Ya i just baked it in the oven and then added it directly to the boiling wort. It worked fine, just had more trub at the bottom of the primary than usual. Just used care when transfering it and everything turned out fine. I didn't need to strain it.

Did it at the boil and it worked perfect for me!

Thanks guys. That makes much more sense to take the reading AFTER I aerate. Don't know why I did it before this time. Now I'll just have to settle with not know the ABV. :(

It was 5g. I dont know what partial boil is. I boiled for 60 minutes then added about 3.5 gallons to the carboy to get it up to the 5G mark. I only swirled it around for a couple seconds before I took the reading. So that is probably it. Damn!

I just made an IPA and used 9 lbs Malt Extract. I figured it would come out around 1.060 or higher. The O.G ended up being 1.052. That seems pretty low for 9lbs of extract. Anyone have any ideas why it would read so low? :confused:

Man that sounds like a nightmare. Glad you got it worked out.. I recently had a similar problem, only when i made a blow off tube like you did... it started getting clogged too. What worked best (after searching on here) was to place some foil over the top of the carboy opening (if you have a...

Thanks, It is a pretty narrow tube. Fits over the middle part of the blow off. I'd say 1/2" thick. That is all i have though, so might have to try the foil.

I came home today (luckily at the time i did) to find my airlock full of wort and clogged. It was on a glass carboy. After switching it out and getting clogged again a couple times, I made a blow off tube. It looks like that is going to get clogged too. I have heard of people using foil. Is...