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Kegged this tonight. Tasted great right out of the fermenter. Thank you for a great recipe!

Cool. Glad to see that I was on the right track. I will be getting a Beer Gun for my birthday. I can't wait to put it to use. I will be sure to give the bottles a healthy blast of co2 before filling.

I am planning on bottling and aging part of a batch for for a year+. Would it be better to bottle condition this part of the batch, or would the beer age just away well if I bottled from my force carbed keg? Does keeping the yeast in the bottle provide any benefit? I amm inclined to think...

Just pick up the ingredients for this. I am looking forward to brewing it this weekend.

Count me in. Thanks for the offer.

You're most likely done. 72 is pretty warm so you will probably have some off flavors. Leave it alone for a couple of weeks and let the yeast clean up after themselves. It's hard to wait but you will be glad you did.

I may be using the dreaded picnic tap. But I may make my own using an extra long line to help cut down on foaming.

I am thinking now that a crash cooled secondary (probably in a keg to make final transfer easier) will be sufficient to clear most everything out. I could always just make a hefe and it wouldn't matter as it would be cloudy anyway. We are driving front north Carolina to the Wisconsin Dells in...

I am planning on brewing a couple of beers to take to a reunion and I have a few concerns. We will be driving for a couple of days, and I know that the sediment will get stirred up a good bit while we are driving. I am thinking of racking to a keg and crash cooling for a few days. Then...

I fermented in the mid 60's also. I had nice activity for 4-5 days and then it settled down. I left it in primary for a total of 3 weeks before racking. It came out nice and clean tasting.

Wow! I just tasted a sample from the secondary after 1 week. All I can say that it is amazing. I could bottle and drink this right now. I am going to have a hard time waiting the four weeks for secondary, and the four months conditioning I was planning on.

Subscribed. I have been toying with this idea myself. It is a great idea for filtering beer that you want to transport over a long distance and don't have time to wait for the keg to settle out before serving. This should work great when I drag a couple of kegs from NC to a family reunion...

I think I just pissed myself. That's too funny.

An easy way to stop the boil over is to use fermcap during the boil. I haven't come close to a boil over since I started using it. I love it.

Racked to secondary yesterday. It tasted great before adding the bourbon and oak. I think that this one is going to live up to all of the positive press that it has gotten here.