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cheaper temp control for ferm = chest freezer and temp controller. for extract/steeping use buckets or put carboys in milk crates or get nuts and get yourself a conical fermentor. bright tank on a 5 gallon level is overkill. id buy a conical fermentor and rack beer off yeast into corny keg...

Here's mine. Cleaning kegs for some IPAs right now Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

yep the big orange one. i added 168f water till mash came back up to 153.2f and im gonna let it sit another half hour.

yeah i just have a home depot cooler and used that lid. i mixed strike water and grains thoroughly before closing lid and temp was at 154.6

tun was preheated, i put in 2 cups of 170f water and sloshed around for a min and dumped out right before adding strike water. took first temp post 60min mash w/o stirring then took temp after stirring and the temp after stirring was 148.6f .2 degrees lower.

i tried my hand at all grain for first time today. i had my grain all mixed around and happy in my cooler the temp was 154.6f, being my all grain my goal was 152-155. i popped lid on cooler and set timer for an hr. after an hr first thing i did was check mash temp and it was at 148.8f...

just moved to santa cruz 3.5 months ago from philly. looking to get into a homebrew club, anyone got any suggestions?

looking back, im disappointed in myslef for not trying homebrewing when i was 16/17. altho maybe that for the best. met a lot of interesting heads obtaining beer underage. there was hulk in daytona at the gas station who once offered a friend and i $200 to kill his exwife and her new boyfriend...

just started homebrewing this past spring 5g of hefe 5g of wit 5g of ipa 5g of brown ale 5g of mad elf clone 25 gallons in 2012 (8 months of homebrewing)

Brewing extract mad elf clone for Halloween. Hopefully ready by Xmas. Mmmm mad elf, I miss your deliciousness!

Yep, it was first time I used star san. I dried plug and neck w paper towel as suggested and now all is well. Thanks for the tips, much appreciated.

Hey there, just put my second batch into 6 gallon glass carboy. Everything's cool but I went to put my cleaned out primary away and noticed airlock was resting on carboy opening. I jammed it as far as it would go and proceeded to watch it rise slowly out of the neck and mouth of carboy. I...

Thnx for all the advice everybody, gonna take the next cple wks to decide me next brew. Leaning towards ipa so far. Thnx again for the input, much appreciated.

What's up everybody? I'm new to brewing, made my first batch this past Sunday and is fermenting away. So far im really digging brewing and want to start tinkering w recipes. I got a hefeweissen kit and was wondering if it made any sense to brew next time with same kit to see any differences or...