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    Fast Ferment - Dry hopping and when to reapply Teflon tape

    Got the Fast Ferment Conical Fermenter, but I have a couple questions on it. -Dry hopping I would like to dry hop as part of our recipe, but I don't want to open the top of the fermenter since we only have 4.5/7.9 gallons in with a large C02 blanket. I was wondering, can I just add the...
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    Couple questions on odd tastes (Bannana esters/sedimenty/yeasty)

    We've actually brewed about 12 beers, and mostly all of them have had this odd after taste that we would describe as sedimenty/yeasty/bananna esters taste and we're trying to figure out how to fix this. Stuff we've run into: We haven't ever tried a yeast starter, and we were told that...
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    Cold crashed at 20 degrees, do I need to repitch yeast?

    I had our 5 gallon carboy outside for 2.5 days it got as low as 16F. there was minimal slush (barely any at all) at the top of the carboy after I brought it in. Do I need a yeast starter? Ive read that yeast just goes dormant until it warms up again.
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    Removing my beer from my yeast early to preserve sweetness?

    In order to get more sweetness into my beer, I was thinking on removing it from the yeast early, so the yeast doesn't have time to break down all of the sugars. I didn't want to ruin my beer in case it's too early though. It's been in the fermenter for 7 days and went from 1.073 to 1.016...
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