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Awesome first cook! Just waiting on handles and wheels.

Ready for paint and a cook on Sunday!

Coming along nicely now!

And yet another step closer

One step closer.

Im assuming its straight to the bottle after the month? if so, Do you achieve the same clarity that way, as opposed to going with a secondary? Use finings?

And the cycle will be complete...... Good call!

Making beer! Drinking beer! And a little later I'll be eating beer!

lol!

Ok thanks for the input, I'm gonna go with it. The temp probe is taped to my carboy and has a foam insulator over the outside so I should be good.

What are your thoughts on the 67F they recommend for primary on an IPA with safe ale us 05?

Yeah it kinda looks like maybe the first section is primary, the second secondary... I've been fermenting the primary at around 16C, but according to that chart I should be up around 19.5C. My concern is too many esters and fussels. Any thoughts?

So I use beersmith.... Under the fermentation tab on my recipe there is a graph. Not sure how to describe it, but it has 3 different quadrants. The first and farthest to the left, and it looks like approx- 1/4 of the fermentation/ conditioning cycle, says 67 degrees Fahrenheit. The quadrant...

Thanks all for the suggestions! Had a sampler and calzone at Vino's. Was an awesome lunch to say the least. Followed up with the brewery tour and hung out in their tap room. Great beers all round and time well spent! Also hit fermentables the LHBS. Had a good talk with the guys there! Finished...

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