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I've never had a pumpkin flavored beer. But my birthday is in mid October, so I'm thinking of just trying to have a variety of styles hanging around and have my own little 'fest around here!

A hydroponics store will have lots of airstone and airline stuff. I know thats where I bought some 1/4inch airline t's. 1/4inch is also used as drip irrigation line. You should be able to find some things here: http://www.bghydro.com/BGH/items.asp?Cc=PM&iTpStatus=0&Tp=&Bc= They also carry lots...

Pretty much same thing as everyone. If it's an old cruddy bottle, oxiclean soak inside and out. If it's freshly poured, rinse well immediately and store well until bottling day.

Yeah for sure I will. I did find it interesting though just for kicks. I tell ya, now that I've had a couple of my latest brew, I dont hardly worry about it for some reason. :)

Hmm, I decided to go over to the beer calculus dealie and punch in the ingredients, and for a 5 gallon batch it estimates OG1055, FG1014. Recalling how someone had said that the gallon marks on brew buckets *can* be far off, and having already used the marks to measure my top off for this...

It was fairly fresh yeast, I'd checked the date code and even saved the packet. I get the feeling that it's finished, but I'm waiting a couple of more days to check the SG a few times in a row. I could always bottle in my plastic bottles, but they seem to take forever to carb up I've noticed...

I was sipping the sample which I'd just taken from the primary fermenter 20 days after pitching. I guess I should add that it's a 5 US gallon batch, and the Coopers dry yeast was an 11.5gram pack. It did not taste bad. I would have described it as tasting like an amber ale that had half a kilo...

I took an autumn amber ale kit with a kit specified OG of 1042 and FG 1012 and added 500 grams of dextrose. That kicked the OG to 1062, that was 3 weeks ago. A pre-pitch sample tasted kind of like iced tea. This kit was shipped to me with the wrong yeast, so I pitched Coopers on it dry...

Another +1 for the sulfiter/vinator. Works great. 3 or 4 squirts in each bottle and set it to drip. If it's an ez-cap bottle, dip the cap and gasket down into the solution real quick too and that's that. I do this while the priming sugar is nearly chilled down enough to pour and bottle the batch.

I have a small landing at the top of my basement staircase that I have my eye on if needed. Did my best to seal up gaps and drafts in the basement this summer. Hopefully that'll help some and I can keep operating in the basement too.

Just thought I'd mention that I still have yet to receive the length of tubing that I'd already said not to bother sending, but which they sent last Wednesday. Emailed them yesterday. Was told ANOTHER length would be sent fedex. Just got back to them, asked please not to bother. I just want it...

Set it on stun and watch the perimeter for romulans.

1055 would be 55 (1055). Sounds as if you've hit 1044. Did you stir well? Add all the fermentables?

Ok, good to know. Because like the OP, I would like to be able to know within a few degrees or less what the real temp in the fermenter is while trying to cool to a specific temp. Measuring the swamp cooler water temp would *seem* to be a good way to know, but perhaps not so much. Next time...

I say 56 to 57 sounds absolutely perfect for swamp cooler water temp. Is it well confirmed that ferment temp is ~10 degrees hotter than swamp cooler temp? Because without ice, swamp cooler water temp will be ambient temp anyway. If the evaporation itself cools the water and not just the air...

I also have a lab thermometer (the $5 one) and it seems to be the standard out of all of my thermometers. Dont boil it, but for the 150 to 160 range or whatever you exactly need, it should be really good. I tie a thin wire to mine and dangle it from an upper cabinet knob down into the kettle...

I bottled a batch last week that used wyeast 1056 in a similar sounding swamp cooler with a cloth over the bucket and icy water in the tote/tub. Using my half gallon jug and smaller 12 ounce frozen container, my temp probe read 59 at coldest in the swamp cooler water. I kept it that way for...

It's probably going to be totally fine. Make a small starter maybe. I'm still awaiting my "priority mail". Now as I make it out using google maps, their store is 1089 miles from my house. I could drive it in 18 hours. But priority mail takes at least 6 days. You know what? I bet they sent it...

I dont mind that I bought a thief because the one time I took the siphon apart I almost broke it, lol.

It PROBABLY will be ok as it hasnt really been super duper hot in the east at all the last few days. I'm waiting for a replacement item from midwest supplies that I was told last Wednesday was sent out via priority mail last Wednesday. How the heck long does USPS Priority mail take anyway...