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I have a brown or a Belgian strong. Havent decided which i want to do first lol

Cool thanks. I was hoping to brew this weekend but on that recommendation i might not be... My starter kit doesn't get here until tonight,was hoping i could just dump it lol.

So another question about the starter. If i want to brew on say Sunday. Could i make the starter on Friday and just pitch it straight off the stir plate on Sunday? Also with 1 pack of white labs yeast would a 2L starter be required? I used the calculator but when searching through old posts I...

Va beach, va I couldnt find anything under 150 that was remotely clean lookin. Only mini fridges are under 100 and i am worried a 6.5 carboy wont fit.

Gotcha that makes perfect sense haha I live in VA so under 40degrees isnt always typical but very possible. But i do have a smallish electric heater i can throw in there. I cant find a cheap fridge tho haha

So people using a fridge for a ferm chamber. Do you need a heat source? I see some other posts about using a reptile lamp. But I wonder why not just let it kick on and off as needed for cooling? I dont see the point in adding heat to just have it cooled off again?

15% would still work for me.. lol

Also what temp controllers would you all recommend? I currently have an itc1000 in my keezer but i like the idea of the inkbird models that just need to be plugged in. but with so many different models im not sure what the differences are. like the 306 vs 308 vs the others.

I appreciate all the feedback for sure. I will add water treatment to my "must do" list along with starter and temp control.

I googled my cities water quality and this is what came up, not sure im smart enough to decipher it haha.

ive compared them to some recipes posted around the site and they have been pretty close. I can post em here if your interested, only done 2 variations so far. I posted a porter, my last brew, and people said it looked good.

I have been setting the c02 at 10 psi in my keezer and letting em sit for at least a week. Most of them longer as I drink the first. My brown ale was better than my first irish red(this one had to much water) so the 2nd irish red sat for at least 2 weeks in the keezer, i tried it last night and...

Awesome thank you. The fermentation temp was the main thing i kinda thought that was the case but having confirmation is always nice haha. Water chemistry isnt something i really considered. I kinda had the thought that it would make good beer but might prevent it from being amazing beer so...

Anyone who likes to knit pick feel free to do so 😂 So far my reintroduction into homebrewing has had a couple bumps in the road. Learning as I'm going and very much still enjoying every second of it. But so far my batches, All grain, have been average at best. To me they taste like "beer". If...

gotcha, I will check my place out. They are usually much cheaper than amazon on most items but for some things they dont carry much variety so they may only offer expensive units. I know like the stir plates there they only have a 65 dollar setup when i was looking for a cheapy. Same went with...

So what stone do you use? or do you I was looking at this here just bc it came with everything inclusive but was skeptical bc usually the all in 1 package means a lot of subpar items. I was looking at the pump you linked as well. Amazon.com: HIRALIY Aquarium Air Pump, Fish Tank Air Pump with...

would something like this be sufficient? for a cheap improvement over shaking the ish out of it? If im gonna invest a little more for some stuff for starters i might as well get the full step covered and improve aeration...

Slightly higher. Ended up being 1.060 which is higher than most ive brewed... not sure if it classifies as high tho. What other ways can O2 be added?

Yeah but its all I have. Its worked in the past lol.

I stuck it in the fridge And i shook the living sht out of the bucket before hand lol, im a relatively big dude and i was sweating after 😅🤣