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I recently put a collar on a small fridge to make a fermentatin chamber. I used liquid nails and silicon to seal it and I didn't really wait very long for it to cure / didn't air it out really at all. My first batch had really bad off flavors (wasn't infected though I don't think) - it was a...

I would take a look at StarSan if I was you. You can mix up a spray bottle and just spray things that you need sanitised and it is no rinse so it is super convenient.

I got two packets at the same time and neither has a date on it.

Yeah I am definitely going to rehydrate next time. Bit of a krausen on the go!

Checked it this morning and it was bumping along nicely. Not sure if the temp increase or the few shakes triggered it but it seems happy.

Yeah that is what I did (swirl/shake). Did it at about 38 hours which might be a little late... cross fingers and how dat krausen shows up.

Thanks man...

I did my first extract brew and it seemed to go pretty well...until I moved from the boil pot to the fermenter. I used a siphon so I could try to leave behind the stuff at the bottom of the pot (hops, cold break). So like no aeration from that transfer. Then I added water to my fermenter (did...

Yeah I wonder if it is a true lager or if it is just something coopers is calling lager...because reading other threads/recipes it seems that 21c would be too high to ferment at, yet the instructions say 21c. :confused:

Yeah I think it did come down rather quickly. Not sure what kind of yeast it is, but the instructions were to pitch it at 21-27 with a preference to be at the lower end of that range then to ferment 21 or below. So hopefully being on the upper end of the pitch range won't hurt me too much...

Yeah I will have to look into a better solution for the summer months. Here in Sydney it gets pretty warm even indoors unless you regulate the temperature somehow.

I bought the Coopers DIY kit with the lager ingredients. Despite the instructions and the youtube videos suggesting that I do a test run to make sure that I can accurately hit a temp between 21 and 27c when filling the fermentor - I decided that test runs were for chumps. I ended up being...