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Is cold crashing done in the fridge or freezer? What's the best temp for such activity?

So Mike, I've only been bottle carbing for less than 3 full days and i was planning on pasteurizing tonight as my plastic bottle feels tight enough, but I just had 2 gushers that lost about 2-3 oz out of each bottle. Is it too late to pasteurize? Should I cold crash? I plan on keeping all of...

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The down-side to living in Michigan is that the bars to not want to do this for us. They get 10 cents return on each, so to them, its like giving away money. So I have been hitting up friends and family, which yeilds only about 12-24 bottles per...

I did not... only had Munton's on hand and didn't feel like the hour drive to my LHBS was worth it just for Notty. But I was curious and tested after only 1 day in the bottle, Holy wow it was amazing. I will definitely use Nottingham for the next batch though, and compare/contrast.

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This is AWESOME. I just brewed my second Extract kit yesterday and I opted for placing filtered water and Ice into my wort to bring up to the 5 gallons and cool at the same time. Today, I was having second thoughts on wheter or not I should have used Ice, since it cooled the wort to 75* in...

25, 832 + 5 Gal Pumpkin Ale = 25,837

Hypothetically speaking, of course.... :)

Crab

To what do you mean here? Did you boil them or rinse in star-san? Or some other method?

Welp. Ended up with about an extra beer and a half without bottles. So I had to try it out, and i must say I'm very happy with it. Let it carb and cool, and this will be DELICIOUS!!! Thanks for the recipe Mike!

Drunk

Right on. This is my first cider. I'm glad its progressing then.

Okay. So today is bottling day for me. And I'm curious, prior to adding the caramel and canned juice, is the fermenting part 1 supposed to taste like a crisp white wine? Its actually not bad, but just a flavor I was not expecting.

Shot

Here's my first beer. Irish Red Ale, and it came out better than was expected. I'm so addicted to this hobby/obsession.