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will aging in room temperature bottles give the same result for meads and ciders as aging in a fermentor? as far as reducing the harsh flavor.

I've done a few extract kits, and I want to move on to making my own recipe... or at least buying all of the ingredients separately as kind of a first step on the way to making my own recipe. I want to buy specialty grains DME hops. My question is which online store would give me the...

I'm looking to eventually get an immersion chiller, but in the mean time what if any downsides are there to cooling down in a chest freezer?

I don't get it, do you let it sit on the yeast cake for a year??

My wife says she loves the hobby because she always knows what I want for birthday/xmas presents :)

I'm with you! I live in AZ as well. The temperature rise isn't the worst thing in the world as long as it was at the end and not the beginning. Stability is key during fermentation. It's better to have an entire fermentation at a stable 70 than 3 weeks of bouncing between 65 and 75. That...

19.97 for shipping to AZ... ouch

Ok, well that creates a new problem :drunk: I have my main primary fermenter going with a cider. The cider I made was fairly simple. I bought 5 gallons of pasturized 100% apple juice no perservatives and added 2lbs of corn sugar then pitched Lalvin champagne yeast. I started it about 4...

6 months in bottles or 6 months in primary? This is a question that has come up a lot for me personally as I read your comments here and on the beginner's forum... I know that we are supposed to wait for flavors to mellow an clean, but the timeline at each stage escapes me. If it is 6 months...

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haha, My first brew is at 4 weeks in primary and I am bottling this Saturday... I am literally about to crack with anticipation. I've already got 2 more batches in primary to distract myself from worrying about trying the first one. It's beginning to get ridiculous. hydrometer samples are not...

I'm actually from surprise,You'd have a bit of a drive haha

thanks everyone, as always this is the best medicine for an over anxious beginner like myself, It was bubbling pretty vigorously, and I think maybe it may have just popped the lid a bit on the bucket. The first night it was making a loud (almost bass drum) like sound with every bubble so this...

I started my second batch on Sunday and everything went well. (much smoother than 1st brew). I'm brewing a Red Cedar Ale with Wyest 1728 scottish ale yeast (it's what came with the extract kit) I got everything all set with the fermentor and got an OG a little lower than I wanted at...

Thanks to all who responded to this thread... the gravity meter was sanitized, I was more worried about aeration or some other results of moving the krausen around or opening the seal too early. I'm not even going to touch the damn thing for 10 days... I promised myself after last night. My...

hello fellow brewers. My first batch has been in the fermenter for the last 6 days. Everything went relatively good throughout brew day, and the airlock started bubbling away withing 8 hours. I watched the airlock for about 30 minutes last night without any bubbles. I decided to open it...

Thanks for the advice everyone! I think I am going to employ the towel and bathtub method to regulate the temperature. I eventually do want to get more equipment, but I am still feeling my way around the process. hopefully everything will be ok.

I have been perusing the forums for a few hours now, and I decided I would add my own little "did I ruin it" as it looks like all first timers do. Details: Brewing a Black Lager from a brewer's best kit, but due to it being Arizona and not wanting to pay to cool my house to lager levels I...