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Bottled red ale for Christmas

Brewed a red ale today. Had a classic complacency error as I used my unsterilized stir spoon to fish out hop bags at the end of cool down. Used it to stir the boil, but had it sitting on a paper plate on a counter. Hoping it won't do any harm. Might be my last 5 gallon brew. Don't drink much...

5 gal gose 5 gal pale ale 5 gal red ale 4805.25 gallons

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Welcome to the forum, but you can't possibly leave us hanging like that......

Sounds like your start is similar to mine. I was gifted almost a complete setup from someone getting out of the hobby. He boiled on the stove top so I bought an 8 gallon brew kettle, cooling coil, and propane burner. I started with extract, but after my third brew I switched to all grain and...

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Not sure what happened but my sach temp started at 160 instead of the 152 shown below. I added a gallon of cold water after 5 minutes and brought it down to 157. Doesn’t seem like this is going too cause me too many problems, but interested in opinions. Going to continue my brew and see...

Reminds me of a (much) earlier time in my life trying an ice cream float with beer - If you like ice cream and you like beer, what could go wrong???? Never tried it again :no:

Welcome! Never did a BIAB but I'm sure you'll be successful.

I just leave mine in the primary for 3 weeks or so. I only take two hydro readings, one after my boil cycle to find original gravity and one on bottling day to find final gravity. I've been a few ticks shy on OG but never had trouble getting to FG.

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