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Just put my American Rye ale in the swamp cooler yesterday. This is my first time using one. My question is, how do you know exact temps inside or know how cold to keep your water. I've been using ice bottles, but I don't want to take the lid off to take a temp and possibly infect. Note: my...

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Made a pumpkin ale partial mash using real pumpkin, sat in primary for 3 weeks, transferred it to a secondary just now and tasted a sip. It has a sour bite to it. I'm wondering if this is from using the real pumpkin, my blow off tube being too deep in water, or will it go away after another week...

I cracked open a bottle of an IPA I made and it tasted amazing, just had an initial sourness flavor to that first sip. It has been bottle conditioning for 9 days, I will be allowing it to condition another week (just wanted to get a sneak peak). Anyone else get that before or know how to fix it...

Anyone know of any good recipes using oatmeal? Can you use oatmeal for a partial mash? I'm not fully AG yet.

Anyone know of any good recipes using oatmeal? Can you use oatmeal for a partial mash? I'm not fully AG yet.

Cleaning SUCKS! That's all I wanted to say 💩🍻

Is it ok to use the dishwasher plastic limbs to rest your bottles to drip dry after dunking them in star san? I would of course run a cycle first. Just curious if this is a viable option w/o the bottle tree.

Is it ok to wash bottles through the dishwasher? Obviously I'm going to sanitize them before racking, just curious how some of you guys do it. I'm not kegging currently

It's been 4 days since brew day and my blow off tube smell smells like bananas. Is this normal or am I in trouble? Beer is pumpkin ale using real pumpkin and was a partial mash

What was your very first brew day like?

Just got home from work and my 2nd day of pumpkin ale (with real pumpkin) is exploding out the airlock from my 6 gallon glass primary carboy... What a sticky mess this is. What should I do? I'm afraid to take the cap off the airlock or take the airlock off. I don't want an infection or pumpkin...

Two questions: are wort chillers (Immersion) worth the roughly $100 investment? How quick should you cool your wort below 100 degrees right after the boil? I ask this because after I did my second batch yesterday I realized how bad it sucks using a sink ice bath and constantly chilling the...

Thought my brew day was gonna be yesterday so I purchased a Wyeast smack pack (1056) yesterday, smacked it, however forgot an ingredient so I couldn't brew until today. I placed the smacked smack pack in my fridge over night and used it for my wort today. My question is, will I have any...