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also its a top opening and closing chest freezer will this cause problems?

i couldnt find it through search so could someone list me the parts needed for converting my chest freezer to a kegerator and the steps too please

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any one have an awnser?

so yeah do they work with the heni brewtender if not which do and where can i buy them?

ok so what specifically makes a wit verses a wizen? should i use malted or unmalted wheat? is wit fermented like an ale or a lager? think similar to shocktop

yeah i know i picked up the wrong kit when i got it but let me tell you its pretty clean tasting and its also pretty clear i guess the secondary was what made it so clear

it started fermenting the next morning i am going to build a wort cooler before i start batch 3 well my oktoberfest turned out nice and it was dry lager yeast pitched at 85

well it was pitched at 95 it was down to around 70 by morning i used wyeast 1056 american ale yeast

well i brewed my 2nd batch of beer on friday a dopple bock style with ale yeast and again (gonna have to make a wort chiller) i couldnt get it down to yeast pitching temps but i had to go to bed so i pitched the yeast at 95 degrees and its still fermenting today(well air lock is bubbling so...

also with the smack packs do you have to smack them before putting them in a starter

ill be reserving a small amount of the yeast from the 1st starter to make the second starter

ok so looks like a plan for when i get my dopple style ale in the second

brother you did exactly what i did i had a brewers best oktoberfest kit and stupidly followed instructions. i mean the beer is good its just weak, my og was 1.052 and now my fg was 1.018 and that means im only at like 4.5 abv% . it will not go down much further so youll have good, low alcohol...

well with the white labs its recommended that you make a yeast starter a day in advance but with the dry you don't have to really you don't even have to reconstitute it most people do but i don't think it has to be. but it looks like you payed extra for the white labs so i would prefer using...

trust me im on my first batch also bout to start the second and i had the same feelings as you but i can tell now that patience is important. i wanted to try my beer so bad and each time you take a gravity reading of course you take a taste but if you wait and i know it sounds hard it will be...

you put hops in your yeast starter?

how well would it work if i mad a 1000 ml starter let it ferment for 1 day then poured it into a plastic container (obviously sanitised) with an airtight lid (wont have an air lock though so idk if it would be ok) while i let a second starter ferment

i was just like you in worrying about when to put it in the 2nd and all that but as i have heard here so many times in the week ive been on this forum let your gravity do the talking ferment in the primary until your specific gravity gets down very close to target then rack in to 2nd because...

yeah but what im gonna do is use half the dme let the yeast eat it then decant it then use the other half to grow more yeast i think it will do well im not setup to pitch 3 liters of yeast but if you know a way that i could make 1000 ml then store it and make another batch and it work well then...