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How cold is too cold? I have seen people post on this forum and others that they always brew their ales in the low 60's. However, the While Labs site indicates that the optimal range for the 001 is 68 - 73. Does anyone out there know if 001 will do its normal great job at, say, 63? (My...

So the consensus on this board seems to be to ferment ales for 3 to 4 weeks to allow the yeast to clean up some of the by-products of the fermentation. After considerable experimentation, I agree with this approach. My question is whether there is any benefit to such a long primary fermentation...

I am making a Whistling Pig Red Ale clone (5 gal.), the recipe for which I got out of BYO. OG was 1.053 and the Fermentis S-33 was pitched at about 60 F. It has been fermenting at 64 F (per the recipe) for three weeks, as of today. Today, I took the first gravity reading since pitching the...

Hello, Just started brewing a few months ago and have already learned tons from browsing the forums. Thought I would make it official and help support the site. Having a blast so far! My brews (all extracts with specialty grains, except the first) have been Coopers Pale Ale, an amber ale...