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I stopped at my LHBS last weekend, was surprised to see over 5 dozen buckets on the floor. I wasn't shopping for anything but still came home with some yeast and hops. go figure! You can also out your local soft-serve shop(s), they likely have a bunch of 6 gallon frozen strawberry buckets...

what you are referring to is a water-cooled chiller, yes they exist. 98% of applications use air-cooled condensers but you can easily swap that with a plate heat exchanger for water-cooled. Personally, I am not a big fan of plate heat exchangers because they can clog, but a closed loop glycol...

I still listen to the "oldies" channel that I grew up with.. when I was a kid it was primarily all Motown and stuff from the 60's ... now they play anything over 20 years old and it is an eye-opener! 20 years ago we had Eminem, Coldplay, Missy Elliott, Avril Lavigne, LL Cool J, Kelly...

I don't have a chiller but I did stay at a holiday inn one time.... We make refrigerated chillers at my work, your temp swings described appear to have everything to do with the immersion coil and glycol temp. If heating with a band heater or other external heater was no problem, and cooling...

believe it or not, the piston in the compressor can get a little tight after a shutdown. A whack on the side of the pump might just get it going. More hopeful than anything at that point, but it has worked on a rare occasion. If the piston was siezed they will have high amp draw when trying...

Without gauges... You might get a better idea by taking an amp draw on your compressor when trying to start. The relay is a Start/Run circuit using the capacitor to the start pin, and then settles into a closed run status on the adjacent pin (the three pins of the compressor are...

you can get away with using ale yeast on an Octoberfest or Marzen recipe, the common thought is that the beer will be less crisp even if you lager after packaging in bottles or keg. Some people do not mind, some people do. The really dedicated recommend a swamp-cooler approach if you do not...

I'm with @cmac62... hops were not yet recorded as a brewing ingredient although ale was around when Ezekiel was alive. (rose hips, juniper berries, eye of newt, etc... ) I also get a kick thinking about "spent spelt" fun play on brewing! I hope you have fun and success with this!

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I did this with a carboy but only brave enough to do it for 2 beers in a row. That beer was a good one, and the fermentation was very strong within a few hours. S-04 on its 2nd beer did a wonderful job. This was the brew that made me wonder if I really was pitching enough yeast, surely the...

I wouldn't think that did harm to your yeast, people have used beer kits that are many years old without refrigeration. Your OG is not super high either, RDWHAHB or maybe a commercial brew while you wait for this to finish up! :D :bigmug:

I'd wait. Can you see any activity or are you fermenting in something more opaque? Any reason to suspect the yeast will not perform? One of the reasons I do not have a Tilt... Id be looking at the damn thing all day LOL!

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I haven't gown hops but I grow lots of plants... one day Ill get some bines in the air. Intervenial discoloration could be a nutrient problem such as intervenial chlorosis what is the soil mixture? is is always wet? You might want to watch for Verticillium as well. The first guess is...

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Im in! My temperature control and monitor gear is slowly being taken over by Inkbird.. great product and great support.

That could have been your cold break / trub separating from the wort if your kettle was being chilled for a while. In this case, everything goes into the fermenter. Scorched extract burns sugar to the bottom of your kettle, and long boil times with extract darkens the wort. You'll know if you...

Was it an older kit? We brewed some very old kits to see what it would do... it was beer but it was not good. I didn't bother to drink it dark could be from aged extract or other trouble in the process. Scorched etract would provide for a roasty like flavor maybe. When you cut heat the...

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well I'm not tossing out any softballs that's for sure :D (Turns out this is easier to play than select a locale with 300 pages of game history) So we have a Bavarian type town in the USA with an old brewery, brew show, and a weiner-dog mascot. They're also pretty busy up to December 25th...