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I use a 3watt seed mat from Amazon. I place it up against the wall several inches away from the fermenter(s). Works great but my garage doesn’t get much below 40 or 50 most of the winter. Live in NC and the garage was insulated

5 gal American amber 3789

Porter house can be the best value…. Goes on sale around me for $8/ lb a few times a year and get a good strip and filet with each one.

Home brew blonde ale

I mainly mountain bike and then it isnt to far. My endurance has never been good but there are plenty of trails around here

Unless you are doing huge SG you could use 2 packs of yeast. Cost a little more but I’m to lazy to start a starter before I brew.

2 examples from my summer brews First high FG was a stout were the pump was to low and stopped. Mash temp hit 160 and it only fermented down to 1.030ish and wouldn't go lower. OG was around 1.064 2nd one was a low OG blonde ale (around 1.040) and the high FG was related to crud on the tilt…...

Welcome to the area. Been brewing for awhile and out near Greensboro.

If you are on the west side CARBOY may be an option. They still put on their competition earlier this year. I’m in the triad area so never been to there meetings but have done the comp the last few years.

I’d use the 0 min hops as dry hop to get more floral notes to play off the boss which may have a citrus flavor at higher temps. Last one I did fermented in 36 hours so 1 week in primary gives it plenty of time to clean up.

5 Scottish + 5 blonde = 3524

Need to consider how you’ll keep the beer lines cool. If the beer warms up as it goes through the lines you’ll have foam issues. Also if beer remains in the line you’ll have other issues if it is not kept cool, sucks as bad beer sitting in the line and possible mold if it is there for a few...

Or by 9 gallons of distilled water from the store. The boiling route would be my approach since I have a 10 gallon electric kettle… would just take a some extra time

43 hrs seems a little fast. Your expected terminal gravity may be higher than were the beer ends depending on your mash temp. Also when you transfer the beer you can check gravity with a hydrometer to validate the tilts accuracy.

I’m in again

5 gal of oatmeal stout yesterday

Altbier

747 + 5 = 752

Siberian nights

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