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It folds over when the freezer lid is down. :)

Thanks! for the off gassing expanation. Slower is better i guess. I dropped the temp to 40 first and then to 33. I used this paticular balloon as it folds over when the freezer lid is down. :)

Someone on a forum, somewhere said the baloon will keep oxygen from entering the FV when the tempurature drops and airpressure changes inside the carboy. I think it is also to keep water in the airlock from being sucked in too, or maybe I was suppose to remove the water from the airlock. I am...

After 4 weeks in the primary carbouy i decided to cold crash today. I dropped the temp in the the freezer to 33 and put a baloon over the airllock. This is the second time I cold crahed and my 5th all grain brew. The baloon filled up at first, and as the temp dropped the baloon deflated...

I just brewed Captain's Ration which I purchased from Midwest Supplies, I see Nothern Brewer has the kit too, it's an all grain kit. The beer has been in the primary for 16 days now. Fermentation seems to have stopped. My recipe did not call for adding water after the boil. I had 17 lbs of...

It sounds like yours turned out pretty good. Mine did too with the kit I ordered at Bells General Store. The liquid yeast survived the journey from Michigan to S. Florida with 3 day Fed-Ex shipping. Mine is hazy, but should sit in the bottle longer. I started sampling after 1 week. After a...

Here's a report from the temperature logger, that's about 24 hours. It shows how the temp changes over time. I can see where the temp controller kicks in and the temp drops, and then slowly rises. The temp is logged ever 2 minutes. It's interesting where it gets choppy, i wonder if the yeast...

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No, I did not intentionally pitch the yeast at a high temp. My immersion chiller can only bring the temp down to about that far. I put a lid on it for 40 minutes after taking out the chiller while i cleaned up a little. I think I had had enough of brew day, and got sloppy. I also drank a...

Hello all, I brewed a Bell's Two Hearted Ale all grain kit from from Bell's General store. I think the temperature I pitched the yeast at is a little high. I am wondering how that may effect the final product. I logged temperatures with a probe taped to my glass carboy and made a graph. The...

The instructions on Bell's A62 liquid yeast say refrigerate until it's time to pitch, and pitch cold. So that's what I did. I sent an email to Bell's General store asking about making a starter, they said it's not necessary. Fermentatio0n started pretty quick.

You can also order the kit from Bell's General store and have it shipped to your house. They include the liquid yeast which they use. :-)

Yes, you inspired me to make my own graphs. Will do another batch soon and make more measurements. Logging data and making charts is good fun :-P Gives you something to ponder as well.

Just takes a little ingenuity and help from others who have figured things out the hard way. I have done 3 batches now with my Mash and Boil and this thread has been most helpful. I am going to buy a brew in bag now. On my last batch i put a temperature probe in the mash to record and log the...

making me thirsty and it's only 9;30 am. Looks good to me.

I like the accessibility you have with the standup fridge. I like to watch the fermentation action sometimes. I can only see the top while in the chest freezer. I have a harness on my carboy to put it in and lift it out of the chest freezer. I bought a humidifier too for the freezer. It works...

Thanks for the advice about not using a secondary. I was never too keen on using the secondary, I just thought it was part of the process and went with it. Time to order my next beer kit. Belgian all grain I think. Erik

I changed the settings to +4 F for a day and made another graph It does not make a big difference I set them both to +1 F for a day and did another graph, attached. I had the temp set at 63f .

I was thinking about putting the probe in the beer. Thanks for the suggestion.