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Thanks to @inkbird and your products for helping me to make great beer!

The more I think about it a cheap upright freezer (or refrigerator) seems like the way to go. Building a chiller coil and glycol chiller seems like a fun project but I can't really see the added benefit of spending that much time and money.

I have a Ss Brewtech 7 gallon chronical on the way and no way to regulate fermentation temperatures. I currently use a brew bucket in a swamp cooler. While waiting, I built an ITC-1000 dual stage temperature controller. I can now go two ways: buy a cheap chest freezer and use that or build...

Would love to have any of those items. I'm in!

It's frustrating because the inside of the bucket is rough to the touch due to all these scratches and imperfections, whereas the outside is perfectly smooth. I was originally just going to send it back but with shipping cost it makes more sense to keep it...

Thanks guys, hearing this makes me feel a little better but I still wish it was smooth. I guess I'll see after the first time using it how easy cleaning it is compared to my other fermentation vessels.

Will you be getting Amarillo in anytime soon?

I tried Sierra Nevada pale ale in college and hated it. Now it's one of my favorite beers.

I just received a new 8 gallon fermenting bucket from Adventures in Homebrewing. When I opened it up I was very surprised to find it full of scratches and pits. I'm worried that this bucket is going to harbor bacteria. Customer service told me that while the inside of these buckets may not be as...

So to the Celebration recipe I added a 10 minute and a 5 minute addition each with 1 oz of Simcoe and 1 oz of CTZ. I debated a Chinook late addition but since this recipe used all my remaining Cascade I'll probably use some of my Chinook for dry hopping.

They're not more than a few years old so I'm not concerned about freshness. More just whether it's a good idea or not and make sure I'm not missing something. Unless there's a good reason not to try this I'll probably do it just to see what happens.

I wanted to brew a Sierra Nevada Celebration clone and have assembled all the ingredients below to brew this weekend. See recipe: 12 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (3.0 SRM) 1 lbs 12.0 oz Caramel Malt - 60L (Briess) (60.0 SRM) 8.0 oz Cara-Pils/Dextrine (1.3 SRM) 1.00 oz Chinook [13.00 %] -...

Of course I went out and bought a therminator a day before this was posted. A little far from me anyway...