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I have an older Amana refrigerator with a bottom freezer that I have been using for years as a fermentation fridge. It gets as low as 40°F. I use an inkbird temperature controller - it has worked fairly well. It could be stronger in this central valley heat when trying to cool off wort... Yes...

LOL! So not married. Putting a dark porter onto carpet with Nottingham yeast and a simple airlock. Recipe for disaster. I did that - plugged the airlock and then built up enough pressure to erupt - blowing off the stopper and hitting the ceiling. Fortunately it was in the kitchen. Lucky to...

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KAB4. Bayou Classic. Been using it for years and the batches have grown to 25 gallons. Converted to natural gas - but the thing is capable of significant heat output. Just need a kettle 12" wide. Oh - and fix your stove.

Finally had a chance to take a measurement of a different batch to compare the traditional glass hydrometer to the tilt. My graduated cylinder had cracked and had to get a different one...Not about to waste beer with a wide container! Tilt: 1.005 Normal: 1.011 So clean an floating in water...

Good input about testing the tilt vs a regular hydrometer. I've only zeroed a clean tilt. Yes stuff sticks to them and that likely influences the angle of the float. Taste: It's still in the fermenter. Just started the cold crash a couple days ago. I'll keg this weekend.

Seems odd that a yeast with an advertised attenuation of around 82% would have such a consistently high attenuation. Anyone else getting these kind of results? I like this yeast because of the high attenuation combined with the high degree of flocculation and resultant clarity. Beer: Basic IPA...

I have been buying from Hopsdirect.com for a couple years now. I buy their 1 pound packages. I have mylar zip loc bags from amazon that I use for the hops. it's not a vac seal situation. I simply squeeze out the extra air in the bag. Most important part is keeping all of this in the freezer...

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The part is perfect. The radius makes its way through the half bung easily. Here's some pics:

I received a wort pump for Christmas and now want to do everything possible with it because it’s new and different! So, does this make sense: Throw a biab into the pot at the last 5 min of boil to sterilize and then use the recirc pump to run all of the wort back through it to catch all the trub...

It still isn't a good idea. just go to Amazon and get this https://www.amazon.com/Eagle-1601MB-Polyethylene-Lever-lock-Capacity/dp/B0025QI4XC/ref=sr_1_27?keywords=30+gallon+open+top&qid=1581393291&sr=8-27 $45, no odor and works great. In Action:

2/10/2020 Update: Jalapeno pepper flavor in an IPA is not a positive addition. In fact....it's terrible. I shall slowly consume the 20 gallons of this slop as punishment for saving $30 vs buying a new container. (which I have now done). New is better. Jalapeno is not awesome.

I think I found a solution: https://www.brewhardware.com/product_p/spincyclereverse.htm

I have a kettle with three welded 1/2" npt fittings. One is the out, one is the thermometer and the last one was capped. For christmas, I received a pump and wanted to give it a go for whirlpooling during cooling with an immersion cooler. So I installed a ball valve and barb fitting. I...