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Are we going with the Great Western 60L? If so, 1/3 sack works for me. Sorry for the late response on this, btw.

I wouldn't mind getting in on this Crystal either if neither of you wants to do a full half sack each. Also, anybody interested in going halfsies on some Vienna?

Thanks everybody. I'll go ahead and pitch it tonight when I get home from work. I'll definetely try the fan out and hopefully that'll cool it down enough.

I have a wort that I brewed very late Saturday/early Sunday and still haven't pitched the yeast. I'm going for an Oktoberfest style ale as I'm fermenting with Nottingham. I was counting on my basement being around 60F, but with the recent heat spell and our old Central AC unit, the...

Looks good to me.

Just sent an e-mail myself. Thanks for setting it up; how does payment work?

Sorry for the confusion. I'm doing an oktoberfest with US-05, and trying to ferment as close to 60F as possible. I'm wondering when I go to lager this beer if I should rack the beer off of the yeast or just throw the primary in the fridge as is? My other question was: Is lagering even...

The question is: Should I rack an O-fest off it's yeast for lagering? I'll be bottling this so I'm worried that if I rack off the yeast I'll have problems with carbonation since I'm bottle-conditioning the beer. Also, is lagering even necessary when using a an ale yeast like US-05 fermented...

2.5 gallons. I would scale up if I had more ingredients, but I'm limited to what I have on hand, which is what is listed. I guess I could just dilute the recipe a little as the ABV is a little on the high side to begin with at 6% ABV... I'm gonna go ahead and make it a 3 gallon batch with...

I'm planning on brewing this Oktoberfest recipe today: 3 lbs Munich LME .5 lbs. Pilsen DME 1 lb. Caravienne I have an ounce of Hallertau hops that are a little higher AA% than I anticipated them being (4.6%). I was originally going to go with this schedule (based on the hops being 3.8%)...

No one?

3.0 lbs. Munich LME 0.8 lb. Pilsen Extra Light DME 1.0 lb. Caravienne 60 min. - .50 oz. German Tradition 20 min. - .25 oz. German Tradition FO - .25 oz. German Tradition I'm mainly looking for a yeast that can ferment warmer and I want to stick to dry yeast as I've had really...

Was this a 5 gallon batch or 2.5?

People have mentioned, that oxygen permeability is an issue with these, but others have mentioned that they are using these container's as secondaries (which is what I would want one for). How does everybody feel about that? What about longer term storage, say for example a mead or sour?

Thanks for the link... some good info. in there. Sadly our water jugs have the 7 on the bottom. I might hit up Home Depot in search of some or some of the grocery stores around here sell them.

Yeah, I should have mentioned I want it for a secondary.

I was just wondering if you can use the 5 gallon water jugs that are used for an office water cooler as a better bottle/carboy substitute? I'm assuming that you can, but just want to know if anybody's tried this. Thanks for your help.

I'm working with a grommeted lid on a plastic bucket. I've tried using all the tubing I've had and nothing fits that grommet. Also, my airlock is the s-shaped one.

Unfortunately, I don't have the right tubing to facilitate that. Any other recommendations?

I did a search and didn't really see anything relevant to my situation. I brewed yesterday and ended up with way more wort than I expected, a little under 6.5 gallons. The problem is my plastic bucket fermenter is 6.5 gallons, so there's barely any head space. I pitched the yeast last...