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The main reason that I always do a secondary is so that I can free up the fermenter bucket and start a new batch. With 2 better-bottle secondary carboys, I can brew as often as the wife will let me mess up the kitchen. also, I dunno about the rest of you, but I ALWAYS get some more sediment...

nice run indeed! I just wanted to say that I also ran that BB witbeir a while back (in the summer). Upon request from my wife, I added 1/2 bottle of blackberry flavoring (available at LHBS) at bottling time. After 3-4 weeks in the bottle, we love this stuff. I have to restrain myself, as...

Okay, so I was feeling like an experiment.. here's what I did. I brewed the Fat Squirrel clone, partial mash (high OG around 1.080)... fermented it out on Safale-05 in about 10 days at 60-63F. Transfered to a secondary and let it sit for a week. NO activity in the airlock, I mean DEAD...

I was wondering if anyone ever re-uses screw-cap bottles, like liquor bottles, for bottle-conditioning beer. I want to put some beer in a square Jagermeister bottle. It's a 5th (750mL ?), and the cap is a screw-cap. It does have a little bit of a rubber coating on the inside of the cap...

I know.. I know.. why in the world would someone want to dilute a nice heavy beer. Well, I DO want to, so lets not debate the whys and what-not. I went overkill on this last beer (fat squirrel clone). I'm kinda new to the all-grain thing, and I am doing basically partial-mash on my...

First of all, this is my first post here. I've been reading this forum for a few months now. I have to say that the amount of information here is unbelievable, and with the Wiki, I haven't had any need to ever ask a question.. it's all here already. Thank you! Now, I've made about 5...