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  1. brendanb

    How important is temperature control after fermentation slows?

    searched and found this thread. i'm having a similar problem. i have a swamp cooler system setup but i just can't rotate the bottles fast enough to keep the temp down. it's at around 78F right now (after about 14 days of 62-65F) and the initial fermentation is done. i was going to try and...
  2. brendanb

    Dark Lord Day 2010

    one of my buddies works there, so i got one of the magic pink bracelets (free food and drink all day.) it was a total mess though. at one point i was standing in the middle of the crowd and some dude asked me if i was in the line for the atm. i was like...where the f**k is the atm?
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  4. brendanb

    interpreting the bubbles

    thanks, guys. i'd have another hydrometer by now, but it's just such a pain to get to my lhbs (~1 hour each way on public transportation) that i save my trips for when i need a bunch of stuff...or at least more than one thing. i'll just keep it at 70 for a couple more days and then rack to keg.
  5. brendanb

    interpreting the bubbles

    hi, all. being the idiot that i am, i totally busted my hydrometer about 2 seconds before i was going to take my og reading. so i've had a pretty generic apa hangin out in primary for 3 weeks in my swamp cooler between 62-66 degrees on nottingham yeast. before work the other day, i...
  6. brendanb

    founder's cerise (cherry ale)

    yeah...my girlfriend is bugging me to make some of this for her. anybody know of any clone recipes?
  7. brendanb

    dry hopping with a high alpha%

    i'm dry hopping in the keg, so i went with plugs (as per advice from my lhbs) and they didn't have any piney hops in plugs, so i just went with cascade. i'm sure it'll be fine. citrus might go better in the summer anyway. thanks again for the help, guys.
  8. brendanb

    dry hopping with a high alpha%

    yeah...the more i read from that link, the more i'm leaning towards simcoe. i have all day to decide...but i keep changing my mind.
  9. brendanb

    dry hopping with a high alpha%

    oh hell yeah. thanks for the link! i think i might go with the chinook...if my lhbs has them in plugs.
  10. brendanb

    dry hopping with a high alpha%

    after a bit of thought, i think i'm going to save my millennium for next ipa/apa. any advice on a good dry hop that would give me a more pine smell/taste? what are your favs, and what flavor/aroma profiles do they give? thanks again.
  11. brendanb

    dry hopping with a high alpha%

    thanks for the help, guys. i think i'll give it a go, then, and use them for bittering on my next batch!
  12. brendanb

    dry hopping with a high alpha%

    hi all. i have an apa that's in it's third week of primary, and plan on racking to a corny next week. i'm going to go with the hop bag in the corny, floating with a cork. my question is how high is too high and alpha% when dry hopping in a keg? i have 2 ozs of millennium plugs that...
  13. brendanb

    how warm can primary get after initial fermentation occurs?

    ok...so it looks like 75 is the highest i should let it get, then. i have no idea how i'm going to pull this off. thanks for the replies.
  14. brendanb

    Beer not carbonating in keg..

    what is the temp?
  15. brendanb

    First brew today!

    one thing i do with my clogged funnel is just use my stirring spoon to scrape back and forth along the screen. sorta pull the gunk to the walls of the funnel and the wort can get through. once it's through, i scoop the hoppy gunk out and into a bowl or something. this also helps aerate the wort...
  16. brendanb

    how warm can primary get after initial fermentation occurs?

    i have an apa that's been in primary for almost two weeks. the initial storm has passed, and now i have tiny bubbles coming up here and there. it's in my swamp cooler, but there is only room for one carboy in there, and i have a batch of ingredients i want to brew tomorrow. if i take it...
  17. brendanb

    hop bag work for hop pellets?

    this looks kind of cool. i usually just dump my pellets into my boil, but i hate straining it all a few cups at a time through my funnel into my primary. i would imagine using a bag like this would HAVE to get less results than just pitching the hops directly into the boil...right? do you guys...
  18. brendanb

    Successful Dry Hopping Techniques?

    lol....how do you know? either way, thanks for the advice. i'll skip using the cork. one less thing to sterilize, right? but yeah...anybody have any experience with millennium hops as a dry hop?
  19. brendanb

    Successful Dry Hopping Techniques?

    anybody tried dry hopping with millennium? i have an apa in primary. plan was to prime for 3 weeks, rack to keg, dry hop with two oz's of millennium right in the keg with hop bag and a cork to float it.
  20. brendanb

    keeping primary cool?

    thank you, doug. looks like i'll be adding ice rotation to my daily schedule for a while then!
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