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Haha okay okay. Done. I use 3 piece airlocks because I can stick a piece of half inch tubing on them to make a blow off tube... I used to use the S type back in the day but didnt get them now because I thought they were outdated and the 3 piece had replaced them....I was wrong... I also didn't...

Spotify shuffle did good. Toots and the Maytals - Funky Kingston

I may do the US 05 thing; it seems like a lot of people use it and can guess that it's for good reason. I also believe that US05 is actually "Chico" strain while BRY97 is not (which makes its name kinda misleading).

lol, there's really nothing fancy about my fermentation game, it's just an old freezer my father-in-law gave us years ago and it still kind of smells like wild game despite me cleaning the H. E. double hockey hell out of it (I hope this doesn't transfer to the beer). The only thing that fits in...

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I finished my first brew yesterday morning (about 12 hours ago) and I'm not seeing any activity/bubbles etc. I am well aware that I might just be doing "the thing" and worrying about....well...nothing. But on the off chance that it isn't "nothing", I want to get ahead of it if I can. What I...

The character sheet looks like this: Brown Ale American Brown Ale 5.3% / 12.7 °P Anvil Foundry 6.5 120V 67.7% efficiency Batch Volume: 3.2 gal Boil Time: 60 min Mash Water: 4.42 gal Total Water: 4.42 gal Boil Volume: 3.97 gal Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.041 / 10.2 °P Vitals Original Gravity: 1.051 /...

Kick to kill - Major Accident

I’m pretty stoked about it. I was going to post this in “my brew day got postponed” thread but it didn’t get postponed and now I have beer fermenting in the garage. Everything went well, I even hit my pre boil and OG which I figured I would have messed up. My strike water temp was off so my...

thanks. I'll look into that.

this is news to me. I will dial back the shaking and perhaps only "gently agitate"...or just pitch it and carry it to the garage

My strike water is heating up.... Beer is back on the menu boys!!

Wisdom... I like you. I'm a machinist and "close enough" is something that makes me cringe when I'm doing machinist stuff. BUT ...I'm off the clock and this is beer, not components for those people I make components for and my doodad reads right at zero with tap water so it is indeed "close...

yeah.. This was the conclusion that my research led me to....after the fact. I'm gonna get after it tomorrow night...tonight? Saturday night and just calibrate my refractometer with my brewing water, that makes sense anyway since that's the water I'm adding the sugars to, so it seems like a...

Brew...night? I was going to brew an American brown ale tonight and got all my grains crushed and everything else weighed out and cleaned my anvil foundry.... again, then realized that I don't have any distilled water to calibrate my refractometer. I have since found a workaround but it's like...

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Do whatever you have the most fun with. Just remember that if you take up drums, don’t make a single beat during sound check until the guitar player starts tuning up.

Well this is just lovely. I just got an ounce of Sabro to go in a brown ale and a porter that I’m going to start like tomorrow night. I got it to accompany HBC 472 (which Murphy’s law dictates that everyone will tell me is horrible too now) because I figured the cream/coconut flavors would be...

Campden tablets are a good investment. You can bypass leaving the water sitting for 24 hours, which is great for me because my doggos would just drink it anyway unless I put it outside where worse stuff than dog slobber would get into it …or cover it which, I believe, defeats the purpose. As...