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On day 18, cold crashed for two days at 35º. Kegged and force carbonated. I'm sure it will improve with time, but it's going to be hard to keep it around that long. Already tastes great! Nice coconut flavor, but not much chocolate from the nibs.

Would have loved to see a follow up to this.

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When cold crashing with the Speidel, I've been removing the airlock, and screwing on the cap. Will loosening the cap to relieve pressure once during the process be more likely to oxidize the beer than just covering with foil? Would I be better off just leaving the airlock on with some vodka in...

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Update: Took a gravity reading yesterday, and it remained stable at 1.015. Tasted a sample, and it was pretty good. Only the vaguest hint of coconut flavor though, so I'm going to let it go a bit longer before kegging.

After researching, I found a post about swirling dry hop bags, then leaving them in the fermenter for a while longer before removing them. I haven't used coconut before, and wanted to make sure the flavor would still permeate the batch without swirling. It sounded kind of risky to me, but I...

It is a wide mouth fermenter. I reckon fishing them out with a pair of sterilized tongs would be too risky? Just thinking of the beer they've probably soaked up... I've seen some posts where people grab dry hop bags with tongs and swirl them around a bit to release the flavor while in the...

Cool, thanks VikeMan.

Actually, I figured I'd sample it in a week, then let it go longer if necessary.

I'm brewing a porter. I just added two mesh bags of toasted coconut w/cacao nibs to the primary (Speidel 30L), which I'll let sit for another week or two. I weighted the bags, but didn't attach a string, so I'm a bit worried about fishing them out without causing oxidation. Should I remove them...

Went off without a hitch. So much easier than bottling. Thanks!

Tomorrow, I'll be doing my first transfer from Speidel 30L spigot to keg. I'm not ready to jump into closed transfer quite yet, but had a few questions. I've removed the airlock and replaced with the screw on cap, and put the fermenter into the fridge for a cold crash. Can I leave the cap...

Good to hear they're backing it up, though it's got to be a pain to box back up for return.

Thanks. That's the direction I'm leaning. I've had a pre-purchase question in at Morebeer since yesterday morning, and have yet to receive a response, which concerns me.

I'm about to buy my first kegerator (I'm not handy at all, so I'm buying one). I've done a ton of research, and was looking at the Komos V2 at Morebeer. Seems it'd be perfect, as I also need to control fermenting temps here in the summer. I stumbled across this Ivation on Amazon (...