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Bottling it tonight once my daughter goes to bed. Will post the FG then, 2 weeks in primary then another 8 days on the hops. The color is a bit darker then I had planned but that's ok.

I just did a IPA in my 5 Gal carboy. Used a 5/8" blow off tube stuck on the 3 piece air lock. Worked just fine.... of course I am still trying to clean out that damn tube. I wanted to see the action. I plan to do it again, albit with a larger diameter blow off tube.

OG was 1.078 Expected FG should be 1.018 (I don't like to take a lot of hydrometer readings, at least not until my beer thief gets here). Should be around 7.2% Sounds good, I had planned not to do a secondary with this batch when I started, then the recipe got modified and I decided to dry...

I made an IPA 14 days ago. It has finally settled down enough to rack. I have been seeing a bunch of posts about head space in the secondary. I used my 5 gal carboy as my primary (I wanted to observe the processes) and I only have a 6.5 gal ale pale to use as a secondary. I was planning to...

There is a bunch of us former Buffalonians down here in the DMV! I had a boil over on a tiny batch of Mead last week, my wife is still angry!