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    Christmas ale

    This should get you close, I bottled this last weekend, smelled and look delicious. Wort Volume Before Boil: 6.50 US gals Wort Volume After Boil: 5.50 US gals Volume Transferred: 5.50 US gals Volume At Pitching: 5.50 US gals Volume Of Finished Beer: 5.00 US gals...
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    What to use to top off after racking?

    Most people start with a larger volume and anticipate the volume lost during racking and from the trub settling out. For a 5 gallon batch (ending with 5 gallons): Start with about 6.5 gallon boil, figure about a gallon lost during the boil = 5.5 gallons into the fermenter. 0.5 gallons lost to...
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    Temperature Controller

    Hmmm...slighly confused on what you want to do here. Are you thinking of having both of those scenarios at the same time. Or when you are fermenting an ale, you will have the freezer set a 68(or what ever temp) and then when you are fermenting a lager, you want the freezer to be cooler. If you...
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    20% evaporation loss?!? -OR- Man, am I geek.

    I also live in boulder, and I use 15% as my evaporation rate with a keggle (probably a little less surface are then a kettle) and with a medium boil If you had that water boiling like a bat out of hell, you're gong to lose a lot of it.
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    Ranco Temperature Overshoot?

    Im not at home right now, so I cant say for 100%, but I just wired mine, works perfectly, and Im 95% sure it is NOT wired like that. I will look at it tonight when i get home. I think the short black wire(going from the lower thing to the higher thing) should be coming out of the port to the...
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    5.0 cu. ft. Chest Freezer Conversion

    Im not sure on this exact model, but my brew buddy just bought the Holiday 5 cuft chest freezer from Lowes, hold three ball lock cornies and a 5 lb CO2 tank on the compressor hump. You should really go and measure the freezer first. About the tower, I dont know if its tall enough, but in...
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    Good Christmas Brew

    Here is my AG version, its in the secondary now and looks, smells, taste amazing Expected Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.051 SG Expected OG: 1.070 SG Expected FG: 1.011 SG Apparent Attenuation: 84.0 % Expected ABV: 7.9 % Expected ABW: 6.2 % Expected IBU (using Tinseth): 45.0 IBU Expected Color: 11.3...
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    Good Christmas Brew

    i did this for last christmas, tried to base it off Great lakes christmas ale. 4.7 lbs Dark Malt Extract 3.3 lbs Wheat Malt Extract 1 lbs Pale Malt Extract 1 lbs Clove Honey steeping grains 1 lb Crystal 15 L 0.25 Caramunich 60L Hops 1 oz amarillo 60 mins 1 oz Willamette 12 mins Other things...
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    Ohhh, my back

    Ive already had one this year...just on my shoulder, which is a whole other story. Im going to give in 2 days, if no progress, ill go to the doc, get me a backiatamy.
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    Foam issue

    your keg has a hard-on
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    Ohhh, my back

    In the past two weekends, been able to brew a Belgian Golden Ale, a Christmas ale and then 10 gallons of delicious ESB. 20 gallons in 10 days...I like it. I also finally bought a new chest freezer, acquired all the components (4 kegs, gas line, beer lines, all the hook ups, 3 faucets, 20-25 lb...
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    Victory Malt vs toasting your own 2-row

    Is victory malt the same as if I toasted my own 2-row. For the ESB I made today, I baked some 2-row at 325F for about 14 minutes. Could I substitute Victory malt for the toasted malt?
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    Critique - late hopped all simcoe IPA

    not too familiar with "amber malt." Is is a standard crystal/carmel? Or something thats real cool that i dont know about?
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    hop help

    I would not reccomend adding them to the primary while fermentation is happening. You are going to clog your air lock or blow off tube. Add them to the secondary. You can also let them sit in the seconday for a longer time since there is not a need to rack your beer off the yeast cake, as...
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    Help on wiring

    You helped me too, just got my Ranco and will be wiring it up tonight
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    Hopped or unHoppped

    Hey there, and Welcome, Not to be rude at all and I really do mean good, but by the nature of the question, you have a lot to learn about brewing and beer. A short answer to your question, hopped extract will give "some bitterness" to your sweet extract. So now for more info....Beer is has...
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    A sign from the beer gods?

    I personally say skip the PM and go straight for it. In the long run, you will probably save money by not have to get "bigger" of the same equipment you all ready have for PM. And on top of that....its just better. You will start designing beers recipes and from that process, you realllly...
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    Yet another Temperature Controller Question

    Yeah, Bobby, I have watched your videos, and that is where I got the idea of putting it on the lid. The only thing is....you did a reallllly nice job on that. I dont know if I have the craftsmanship for that. I have all my faucets and lines and every thing, for now I just may hook up a picnic...
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    Yet another Temperature Controller Question

    Thanks alot for your quick response. That seems easy enough, now all i have to do is decide, do I want the collar connected to the lid of the freezer, or the base of the freezer......haha say goodbye bottles....:mug:
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    Yet another Temperature Controller Question

    I just bought a beaut of a chest freezer, 8.9 cf of glorious glorious cold beer. Now I need to keep that beer cold, and not frozen. I want the Ranco ETC-111000, but I am not 100% sure how this works. My overall question is....Am I going to have to hard wire this thing at all? Or does it...
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