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Just had to put a blowoff tube on my belgian quad. I used some extra ingredients and as a result it has a very high SG (1.12). Took maybe 3-4 hours after I pitched the starter until I found this. :)

Whoops, I missed that. Darn. Going to have to find a source of a food safe sensor :(

This stuff is awesome. I've been building a controller for my fridge and I was wondering if I could wrap a temperature sensor (DS18B20) in sugru and put it in my fermenter without ruining my beer. I know its waterproof, or at least water resistant. I'm not sure if it's food safe, or if it's brew...

I let it sit and lager for a while. I wound up getting a 5 1/2 gallon carboy for it and transferred it. Very little airspace above the beer. That was a few weeks ago, now it's in bottles. I opened the "**** bottle", the one that wasn't completely filled and had some of the big chunks of trub...

Since I plan on lagering in the bottles, what is the best way to achieve diacetyl rest? A buttery lager is not what I'm aiming for.

By lager in the bottles, you mean storing them really cold for a few weeks, yes? That is entirely doable. I'll look into getting a BB for my next lager. I've read too many horror stories about glass carboys to buy another. Thank you again, Yooper. You are an endless font of information! :mug:

I could. My lhbs isn't exactly local. Something of a half hour drive either way. The area has a tendency to make peopleofwalmart.com look like the playboy mansion. The only things I can come up with are to leave it in the primary through lagering, or using the bucket as a secondary.

Just recalled that I've got my old plastic bucket primary. Should be fine using that as a secondary in my fridge.

Crap I need a secondary don't I.

Let me get this straight. Lagering is just keeping it cold for a few weeks? I can get it down to 40* or so in my chiller easily. Wasn't planning on anything yet, I had just read the instructions given to me with the kit and thats what it told me to do.

So far, so good. :) That jumble of wires is half of my fridge control. It's not finished yet, obviously.

Definitely will :)

Whoops, I completely missed that. My mistake. Thank you :)

Alright, this is why I ask questions before I do dumb things. So I should cool it down to room temp, pitch the starter, and drop it to 50-55* then? Starter has been in the fridge for 3 days, going to decant it when I get home from work. :) OT: Yooper, your dead guy clone came out amazing, by...

I was just following the instructions that came with the recipe kit. I've had other kits from them before without having any problems. :/

Alright, I made a 2L starter using 2 cups of light dme. Then let it stir for 3 days (Friday night to Sunday night). Now it's in the fridge. Here is my brewday plan. I think by Wednesday it should be settled out nicely and I'll pull it out a few hours before I brew to bring it back to room...

I've got parts in the mail to build a little unit to control the temperature of it exactly. Did you modify your chiller like that? I'm curious how other people have done it. I'm going to use a temperature sensor and microcontroller with an LCD to do it :)

A couple days ago I went and bought a wine bottle chiller to use as a fermentation chamber. I'm going to brew this lager if it kills me. :)

I see what you mean, I didn't notice that part. Looks like I need a second vial of yeast then. Lagers are definitely more complicated than I had originally thought. Good learning experience though :) I got a "yeast fuel" nutrient capsule. Should I add this to the wort or to the starter?

Yooper to the rescue again :) Good to know what cold crashing is. Without the liquid mixed in, what is the best way to get all of the slurry out? I looked at the mrmalty calculator before. Seems that White Labs doesn't put a production date on the vials, just a use by date. Or at least that...