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So I just bottled my first batch and I'm pretty sure everything so far has gone off without a hitch. Lots of fun, I'm really loving this brewing thing. I now have alost 2 cases of beer bottled and would love to start on my next batch soon but I'm not sure when I'll have those bottles freed up...

It'll probably be gone in a weekend lol

Revvy, same situation. West facing room on top of an uninsulated garage. My room has temp spikes you wouldn't believe. Looks like mother nature is cooperating though!

This nice weather is sticking around in my area for the next two weeks. Not a day with a high below 65! Good for beer, good for me! :D

Open windows, no a/c, no fan, and outside ambient air temp of 90+ F. I understand it is very difficult for 5 gallons of water to drastically change temp based on ambient air temp alone, but I definitely think 80 would be possible. 70 to 73 would be the norm. Thanks guys, now the roommates wont...

Bottling today. My original plan was to stick the bottles in my closet for conditioning with a variable temperature but nothing under 60 or over 75. Recently the east coast has had some lovely weather and I'm suspicious my closet could hit temperature of 80 or higher occasionally. I fermented on...

Starr Hill Brewery (Charlottesville, VA) has a Hefe called The Love which I can get in a bottle or on tap at work. They claim their strain of yeast came from a Munich Hefe. If I could get some from a bottle or the dregs of a keg, do you recommend subbing that yeast for the original in the recipe?