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Thanks for the insights on this... lots of good experience here. I'm doing a trappist double right now, OG = 1.080. Not sure if I can say its AG, since there's candi sugar and the like in there, but it's based on a full mash. I'm two weeks into primary, and everything seems good. Was going to...

Hey... I've read quite a few threads on here and did some searching, but didn't come across anything that quite answers this one. I've heard of using dry ice to purge oxygen from secondaries, some people have carbon dioxide readily available from their kegging setups (and some just secondary...

Awesome... thanks for the reference points. I'll leave 'em out at room temp, drop one in the fridge every several days to see if there's a difference. If it gets worse, I'll chill 'em, otherwise let it take its course. Thanks again!

Hmmm... airlock. The cap on a bubbler can't weigh more than 1 or 2 ounces right? 1 atmosphere is about 14.7 pounds per square inch. A standard bucket has about a six inch radius? (2/16) / (3.14*6^2) is pretty darn small. I don't think the airlock has much of an impact. Maybe for a blow off type...

I recently got setup and tried my first lager. It was a 5 gallon recipe for a Marzen style that I built stealing data from "Designing Great Beers", "Joy of Homebrewing", etc. Mash, lauter, and boil went off just fine. The primary fermentation did not take off at all well... took >6 days for...

Interesting thread... I think when you agitate, you're rousing a system out of an relatively unstable status. In order to kick off some nucleation or whatever, you provided an activation energy.It's like a book standing on its side... you have to give it a kick to get it up and over an edge...

Got a ground-up recipe for American Brown Ale boiling away right now. Pretty conventional... 2nd AG brown ale, so I'm gonna call it Brown No. 2 to deter the inattentive.

Argh... echoing those sentiments on the extract. The bottle I purchased said one teaspoon per gallon, and I cut that in half since I don't like an overly spiced / flavored beer. I just racked to my secondary this morning, and the spruce flavor is very strong. Vanilla bean, cinnamon stick...