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I took your advice and produced a lovely beer. Sipping on it right now. Bought 5 of the M41, 5 M49, 5 M31. The M31 is making a tripel for me right now. Thanks!

Greetings! I'm quazi new to the brew world. So please bear with me. I'm focusing on Belgian styles. That's what brought me to brewing. I have a lovely saison I was sipping on with the NZ yeast some kind man in another thread turned me on to. Meanwhile there is a carboy of tripel happening in...

I know this is probably too late to help the OP. I've rather new to brewing (just a year in) but the saison and belgian styles is why I started. I've done 2 batches in which I've used rosemary and orange peel. Both turned out very goon to me. The first one, my husband ordered an IPA it that...

David, I just looked at those Mangrove Jack yeasts. All the ones that are comparable to what I brew have a "best at" heat range that is quite high. I brew a nice hefeweizen too! Perhaps I don't need a fermenting chamber and just buy yeast that is tolerant of my house average temps. The M-41 and...

Thanks David and Reevesie! I will look into the Mangrove. And as I said before, I've not had an issue with the quality of most my batches. It's just that we are having such a heat wave and my husband and I are hard put to try to cool the house to what would be within the ideal range of those...

Okay, looking at the cost of a 7 cubic foot chest freezer, they are quite cheap by my estimate. It looks like I could fit 2 buckets in there. I'd just have to squeeze my husband's darkroom stuff in a tighter space! Or he could sell it to offset my brew habit :) I looked at the carb calculator...

Thanks BrewNYC! I like your yeast as kids analogy :) I had actually done some studying of an Australian no chill method. They have water quantity issues so they came up with a solution, but I decided that my ice bath was effective enough. Golddiggie, I'd have to get my husband to give up...

Wort chiller won't work for me if my ground water is 80° will it? My galvanized tub with ice packs gets me to 70° in 20 or 30 minutes. I thought that was pretty good. I actually took one bucket of hefeweizen to my brother's who keeps his home closer to 68°. I'll study the other things you...

Thanks for your information. Sorry I'm so slow to reply. I've been away from a real keyboard and the phone is too tedious. I've been looking into a fermentation chamber. I've been undecided if it is worth it. But maybe it is. I've never kept my bucket any lower than the 70°. My husband and I...

MaxStout, Thanks. That's good info. That swamp cooler method is how i chill after brewing. However, not with the tshirt. My groundwater is 80° out of the tap this time of year. This is why a wort chiller is no good for me. But I have a vast collection of those cooler blocks that ship with the...

Thanks for responding. I haven't drank the whole batch, but so far, every bottle is flatter than I want. Not entirely flat but almost. The instructions say 2/3 cup of corn sugar. I have a scoop that size and use it. Sometimes I add a little extra sucrose (about an ouce) but I'm not sure that...

I'm sort of new to brewing and have been relatively successful with my beginner extract kits. At least I've gotten beer that I like to drink :) Now I'm getting a little experimental, and experienced my 1st flat bottling job. This brings up some questions that I'm sure mean that I don't really...