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You're sitting at 66% apparent attenuation which is right at the bottom end of that strain. https://www.wyeastlab.com/rw_yeaststrain_detail.cfm?ID=139 Probably done at that FG, but you could crank it up to 70 deg to possibly squeeze out a couple points. Buuuut if it tastes good and you're...

Just for clarification, Since EuBrew and I said two different things on cold crashing...you can cold crash either before or after bottle carbonating. You'll have more than enough yeast in the bottle to carbonate even after cold crashing. Personally, I don't cold crash before bottling anymore...

Great call on the water. Looks like you're brewing hop forward beers with soft water. Harden that water up a bit and you'll have a crisper beer. It made a world of difference for my IPAs. Check out https://sites.google.com/site/brunwater/

Cold crashing will help. If you are bottle carbonating, I wouldn't bother with cold crashing until after the bottles are carbonated (~2 weeks in warmer temps). The small volume in bottles allow for a quick cold crash. It may not be related, but perhaps a bit longer in primary may help...may...

Other questions to help: 1) How long in primary? Use a secondary? 2) Bottle or keg carbonate?

There really isn't any "wrong" answer on this one. Personally, I would keep it simple. Toss in the entire packet without hydrating. You'll lose some cells, but you'll have more than enough to complete a nice, healthy fermentation. I drop half a packet (non-hydrated) of yeast into my 1...

15psi quite a bit low for beer gas mixture. Figure you're only pushing 3psi of CO2 to maintain carb. I generally push 30psi or so.

Weak...very weak.

Way too early to tell. This early in the fermentation there are a handful of things that could be causing perceived astringency. Heck, you may even have just picked up a bit of the krausen in your taster. Give it time, brother.

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How did everything work out for you? I'm in Miami (80 deg + ground water in January) and the dual immersion chillers didn't work for me. I finally found success in using standard tap water to bring it to 80 and then connected the chiller to a small pond pump, put the pump in a bucket of ice...