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Western Digital seems like a more reliable brand IMHO.

Thats like looking at porn and the camera zooming in on the guy moaning. Nobody wants to see that. LOL :cross:

Well I try to pay attention to ferment temps, but did not know the variance in flavor based on this yeast in particular. After reading about the yeast in the description via wyeast homepage, the higher range of this yeast can produce a slightly fruit ester, and the low end mimics more of a...

Yup I am running a johnson a419 on my fridge. I am going to keg my recent ale and connect to my tap, meanwhile brew a lager and put next to ale on tap. I can serve ale a little cold, and just let it warm up slightly while fermenting in the same fridge. I dont have room for a chest freezer for...

X2 starters will help make sure you get a good ferment + it makes you look like dr beer walking around with erylnmeyer flasks. Look up homemade stirlplate, to push your starters to new levels.

Not to dilute your brew thread, but yes I noticed the higher the temp the more it leaked. Maybe 1 cup total no big deal. And your right potting the electrical connections are mucho important. This is the part I was paraniod about when brewing. About how far are your valve handles open...

Sweet Pol good luck. Glad to see your finally getting to brew. I recently ran this system for the first time the other day. Things went very smooth. I did have a very small leak around heating element in hlt however. I had not had a problem with leaking previously in testing. (might have to...

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Yeah I think that is an american style heff thing.

Well I was after good beer. I hope there is not any funny off flavors because of this. :(

Well damn I will lower it down then slowly. I did not know that it would affect it like that. Man I feel like I missed the boat here! I just went by what beersmith said to keep temp at.

What was the post boil target to begin with? Dont worry I have failed several times at this.

Yeah it must be my deviated septum from fighting, that forces me to use the slight + pressure that the bottle gives. You guys should try sinusgeni and sinus buster products. They have a capsaisin product that works great on headaches. They have great neti salts infused with spearmint and...

Ok so after sparging for about 40min at 170f, I hit my target pre boil gravity of 1.045 for 7.7 gals. I have a slight problem however. After getting my boil volume I still had sparg/wort/water in the mash tun left to drain. It was about 1.5-2gal to be exact. I wound up draining it to...

I would boil down to get desired gravity. (you would have less beer and stronger hop flavor however) This would be my wild guess in this situation.

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Get the bottle it is way easier to use. (I have used both) Neilmed makes a bottle with rinse packs. (they sell at walgreens)

Not sure on how hot things got. I am controlling fridge temp via johnson controller probe taped on the front of fermentor. I have my temp set at 65-66. I am using wyeast 1007 I believe. I had considered using a blowoff but can never get them clean after brewing. The krausen part is a real...

Unless you are comfortable with your processes, I would lay off the drinking. Drinking will only distort things when they are new.

Ok so after working out my issues and getting my Herms system in order, I wound up brewing a Düsseldorf alt beer. It appeared to be a dark amber when going into the boiling pot, but was much darker after getting into fermentor. I wound up getting 1.051 final gravity before pitching yeast. I...