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No, I dipped my candy thermometer in the brew & also a digital thermometer. Both checked out.

Thanks for your input. My brews don't have that pristine flavor I prefer, they have an "off" flavor, don't know why & originally thought is was my conical or way I'm brewing. This is why I started thinking about a better fermenter like X3, but didn't think too much of glycol chiller seems...

Just tested my hard cicer with Red Star Premier Blanc & it shows same temp in house which is 74 now. This thing's going crazy after 3 days. It's not warmer in center.

Makes sense on watering down. All I've been making are 5 gal extracts and most are ales, some dark & some blonde from Northern Brewer. I've done 2 lagers over 10 yrs but never turned out well. I use 05 & 06 mostly, except for the lagers which I used W-34/70. I have no temperatire control...

What proccess is off? I was trying to be brief since there's not many steps in brewing. Steep grain for 20 mins @170 in 2.5 gals of water & discard, start boil for hour & add hops, malt or syrup, and cool down. After wort is ready, pour in bucket of ice to desired temp for pitching. What am...

Well, my extracts are for 5 gallons. So, I work with 2.5-3 gallons to create the wort with some evaporation anticipated. After all is done, I poor wort into a bucket with Ice to make up the difference which is 5-5.5 gal (not 5.5 to 6). How would an extra half gallon of water be too much on...

I have been extract brewing for over 10 yrs. Started with a couple of 5 gallon buckets & upgraded to a 7 gal conical for fermenting. When I chill wort for pitching, I dump wort in my 5 gal bucket & put about 7 lbs of ice in it until it reaches about 80 degrees, then pour that in my conical and...

What kind do you have?

Thanks. Well, maybe I'll just order some Brewer yeast. I'm totally rural & nothings out where I live so need to make an order. I'll just look for kit sales.

Hi all! I figured there some experienced folks here that did some experimenting with ec-1118 on Ale & need some advice. I have a pale ale that's supposed to have an og of 1.052 (lost my s-04 I was going to use) so using the ec-1118 I had available for mead. Would this work very well considering...

I never heard of those before.

I live in Snowflake, Az and interested in preordering rhizomes but unsure if hops, or specific species of hops, would grow here. It's very windy & dry during spring/summer (but can water, of course). My elevation is about 5,600 ft. - zone 7 Can someone recommend something?

Any ideas to have good clean looking beer after it's ready? I kegged a delirium & can't find out why its cloudy. I transferred after everything was settled.

You all have so many advertisers, its virtually impossible to type a good reply here without being interrupted by ads.

I'd ask or participate on this forum but got tired of continually closing out spam on this site.

Oh, ok. Never had to use that before. I noticed no fermentation in the conicle as I've always done in the past & transferred it to keg. Over the last year, I decided to let the brew selfcarbonate - I started to do this after my co2 tank was empty & I was able to tap from that. I'll look into...

It was just sitting in the keg, nothing else allowing pressure to escape. So, you think it was infected? I went ahead & put it in my cooler. Maybe that will fix the issue.

Way over carbbed on it's self carbonation? It wasn't charged with anything but it's own gases. I was going to charge it once the air was bled out but it didn't need it. Maybe I'll just put it in the cooler chest to reduce any yeast activity remaining. As I said, this is the first time I've...

That's what I initially thought but after I bled all the air out & opened keg, the foam started overflowing down the side of keg.