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Sounds interesting, banana beer? Let us know how it comes out

Yep, standard practice to pop the lid and drop the hops in. It's ok to pop the lid because you kinda have to do that in order to get the hops in there :D Doesn't affect fermentation, though you may get a little bit of bubbles from co2 off-gassing. I never heard of anyone getting oxidation...

Congrats man haha. You got some serious willpower if it was that good of a beer and you still have some stored after months :D

Hahaha I can relate to that. Went vegan almost 2 years ago. Don't miss meat, miss dairy sometimes. I wouldn't know what it's like to go without beer, if I had to give that up somebody shoot me. To the OP, I second this, what you eat is what makes you gain / lose weight. A lot of people...

gentle tube insertion with lube does help. wait what are we talking about here? lmao

Good info! Glad I came across this, as I was recently wondering what would work better between cold crashing and putting a filter / rubber band over my siphon when transferring to a bucket. I'm guessing the suck back caused by cold crashing causes the oxidation?

I brew in an apartment also, and the tap water here is pretty warm (probably mid to high 70's). What I do is cool the wort with the wort chiller / tap water for about 25 mins, it should take the temps down to the high-mid 80s. From there I give it the ice bath in the sink, using 3 frozen gallon...

+ 2.5g Amber Ale 6,607.5

Really depends what the conditioning temp is. Where I live it's in the high 70's - low 80's room temp, so I get fully carbed bottles in a week. Though I get the best results if they're in the fridge for at least 3-4 more days before drinking em. If you live in a cooler place though, it could...

haven't found bombers at a price that I liked, but if you need non-empty quality 12oz bottles for cheap, I'd say Costco. They sell cases of Lagunitas IPA there for a really good price ($26 in Hawaii, probably little lower where you're at)

I think I got another thing to add: If you're making a pipeline, always make sure you have a lighter beer, unless you have a huge tolerance lol. I'm stuck with 3 batches of beer that are all in the high 6's-high 7% range and it's fine if I'm having a couple at home. However, when hanging out...

I had a similar problem myself, I got about a 58% efficiency on my first brew. Did you buy the grains crushed, or crushed at the LHBS? First run, I did a single crush at the LHBS. I finally got to 70-75% efficiency by: - Double crush (Still at the LHBS) - Mash for 90 minutes instead of 60. If...

Bottles from Deschutes and Ballast Point work well also. I think they're the same exact bottles you get from most kits or LHBS. I had a 12 pack of bottles that came with a Northern Brewer kit, and also looking at the empty bottles sold by my LHBS, I can't tell them apart. Except for the Ballast...

I've heard a false bottom is good to protect the bag from getting scorched, since you're using propane that's probably a good idea. In my experience though if your grains / water is near filled to the top, the temp is pretty constant. I do 90 min mashes on stove top with no insulation at all...

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He's right, the bucket won't take half your money if they decide to quit on you :D

I've been using all refractometer since about 4 batches ago (On 9 now). Brewing 2.5 gallon batches, it's painful to use 4oz for a hydro sample lol. But in any case, before I started using it exclusively I compared readings and I've been getting the same results. The biggest ah-ha moment for me...

looks normal to me

6202.5 + 2.5g grapefruit sculpin clone 6205

I learned everything by reading this forum and watching youtube vids lol. First batch was an extract kit, 2nd batch I basically followed the process on the BIAB forum (sticky at the top). Been pretty much doing it that way ever since, of course with some modifications due to trial & error, and...