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Just give it a gentle swirl my man, no need to panic. If it's a carboy, grab by the kneck and slowly rotate on its edge. If it's a bucket, pull your handle up and rotate slowly.

Somethings gonna get wrecked, although I bet it's you before the lawn mower. Have fun, and consume from a shot glass.

If you're so concerned then why not go this route. I use something similar and it works fine. Plus, no need to keep buying O2 tanks. http://www.midwestsupplies.com/aeration-system.html

I brew a lot of wheats, and I always seem to have some sort of stragglers floating after a 2 week primary. If your OG is stable just rack from underneath. 1 week in the keg will perform the same thing as a 1 week cold crash. Just dump the first glass, or get a spoon if you're into yogurt. If...

Put a piece of cardboard under the conical. Measure and cut the cardboard. Trawl craigslist, or go to Lowes, and take the cardboard with you. It's how I got my wine fridge sized out for my carboys. It worked so well I even had a whole 1/8th of an inch to spare :P Also, I dare say just a...

So are you sold out of the 4 x 1lb option? I get a page not found when using your link.

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Welcome aboard! Fellow Orlando brewer here. Check out the Sanford Homebrew Shop yet?

That's what I thought. If I were to throw caution to the wind I don't even think I would start at 7bbl system. Probably something closer to 3bbl. Unfortunately my area has almost no craft breweries at that size, so there's not really a lot of places for me to hit up. If I can keep bugging...

So how much did it take to get started up, if I might ask? I've toyed around with the idea of opening a Tap Room in my area, but everyone says if you don't have $1 mil then don't bother. Definitely doesn't look like you started with a $1mil by your setup.

As far as ruining a beer goes, I've found that some perceived ****-ups on my end have still produced excellent beer. Plus, as a kindly old gentleman at my LHBS told me once: "Humans have made beer for thousands of years, and I suspect that at the end of the day, you will have too."

Same thing. I just soldered the loop closed on mine with a big glob of rosin core solder I had laying around. Bet some hot glue would do the same thing if you don't have a soldering iron.

So this weekend I was taking a stab at making a porter recipe I've made before and ran into a couple of different snags. LHBS didn't have the yeast I tend to use, I accidentally bought the wrong hops, and to top it all off my propane tank went dry 40 minutes into the boil. At the point I...

How long do you intend to bottle age? Greater than 6 weeks and I doubt you'd be able to tell the difference between that and a 7 day secondary.

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Alright, sorry that took so long but got swamped with work and driving around the state for family stuff. Let me know if the link doesn't work. http://scottstots.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Conical.zip

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I just finished a cider for my girlfriend. There was literally 0 krausening and the whole time looked the way my beers do after 2 weeks in primary. My airlock did have some significant activity though towards the end of the first week, but I was using a german champagne yeast so maybe that's the...

No problems my man, also just noticed you were near Orlando. It's a little off topic but I'm in Oviedo myself. Any recommendation for brew clubs around these parts?

Oh ok, nope that's about right for mash and I'm probably confused myself heheh. For air temps are you doing it in a refrigerator? I started with a refrigerator and found that taping my johnson probe to the carboy offered a better temp reading. If you're just using the internal thermostat I...