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Ok folks so this is my first lager. I made up the starter 2 days ago. I had it sitting room temp and then put in fridge last night before I went to bed. Brewed up this morning and as I was starting I took out the starter to be ready for it. Had the wert cooled down to about 70 and the starter...

I am guessing my image didn't attach like I thought. Anyway today when I checked in on it activity in the blow off bucket has settled down. Going to I've it another day to be sure then put the airlock back in. On another note starting the Octoberfest now and hoping I did the starter correctly.

This is what I woke up to seeing this morning. Should I be putting a blow off tube on this thing?

Just did up a batch of dunkelweizen this afternoon and pitched the yeast around 3. Just had to take a peek and I noticed the airlock is going strong already. I am chalking it up to rehydrating the yeast prior to adding it. I also did up a starter for the octoberfest I am doing either tomorrow or...

Ok so I checked the temp this morning and it was held at 7.7c which is 45.86f. Not too bad for a 1.7cf fridge unit supplying a 10cf space. I think this is just going to be a perfect spot for my ales. I think I am going to keep the temp controller on this one and purchase a second for for the...

So everything is hooked up and running. Going to monitor it. I have the dial turned up all the way just to see what it will do. I had it set on 1 out of 5 all day and with the front porch around 85 it came back up to 50! I also got my hands on a 5cf chest freezer for $60. Hoping to have that...

Bob any ideas on how I can "pump" it out? I should know tomorrow or even tonight on the exact temp since I am putting together the controller for the freezer once I do get it. I could also use it for this to better maintain certain temps as well. I just have to hook up the probe and get it in...

I had thought about it which would help lower the temp some I would think. The other thing is I may get more life out of the ice chunks. They would last about 10 hours but then again it is on my porch which was staying about 85-90 at that time as well. Lately it has been between 75-80. The plan...

So after 45 minutes dropped 10 degrees. I think this will work out great for my ales just fine. Just waiting to hear back on a 5 cf chest freezer so I can get this octoberfest started. Temp Update Looks like after 2 hours I was able to get it down to 55 on the coldest setting. I am going to...

70 degrees right now at start up.

Here is the way it is

So it has been running for about an hour and a half now and has dropped around 15 degrees or so. I do notice one thing I need to do and that is notch some of the insulation so that more of the grate around the fan is allowed to do what it should. I will post a picture to show how it is in a bit.

Me too. Going to be firing it up in about 5 minutes or so.

Not the prettiest setup but then again who sees the back! Just have to put the interior fans in and hook it back up and see what it does.

Ok so a little bit of an update with pictures. So I spotted a mini fridge on CL for $20 and jumped on it. It is only a 1.7 but was surprised to find out that it was an electronic cooling unit. Which means no tubing or the likes. I am going to integrate the fans and coolers along with the...

Had a brainstorm today. I was thinking to myself how could I make this thing even better. I came up with 2 options. First I could use a 5000 btu ac and build it into the back of it. With this option I still will have condensation to deal with that come out of the rear of the ac. My other option...

Planning on bottling this Saturday. Kind of wish I had not racked to secondary since the more I read on here suggests if you rack to secondary 6 gal there is going to be a lot of head space that should be topped with CO2. Will have been 9 days in secondary. I will not be doing it again since...

Exactly what I had though I could do. Since it is going to be 2.5 gal from each kit it should work out the same as I were doing just a single batch. Thought of adding a valve to the the new brew pot I am going to use for this size batch to make it easier to get into the fermenters.

I figured I should be able to do it. Oh yeah I am a sanitizing freak (work in an ER) and sanitize everything for at a minimum of 15 minutes....do I need to, probably not but it makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.

Okay I know I read something about this somewhere a few days ago but did not pay much attention to it since it was what I was looking for at that time. What I am wondering is if it is possible to brew up 2 same kits in an 8gal pot which would be 5 gallons then split it into 2 separate fermenting...