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Hi, I'm wondering how much of this slurry to use in a 5 gallon batch? I mixed up all the trub with about 300ml of leftover beer. Stirred it all up and poured into two mason jars. Poured off the top beer from both and consolidated into this. Do I pour all or half of the non-beer yeast and...

it's a coopers fermenter bucket. What's my best bet for cleaning this? Soak with a little oxy clean?

smells like nail polish remover, pretty strong.

s05

This krausen looks really waxy. I haven't opened it, it's the new style coopers fermenter so I can see it pretty well. Top of the bucket is showing no condensation at all. Probably safe. Tastes awesome. I'll report back on this in a few weeks to tell if anything blew up :p

It's been consistently .007 for 4-5 days

I just did a biab centennial blonde. Been in the primary for 10 days now and there's a thick, creamy krausen layer on top that looks to be about a quarter inch thick that won't seem to fall. I'm thinking of just racking and bottling it, because I want to get another one going on a bit of the...

Awesome recipe. Curious to know about something. I made edworts pale ale and planned on making 15 gallons based on what I bought. Really happy with it, but I'm thinking something lighter might be better for my caloric intake. Also, I priced this out and if I re-use the s-05 it'll run me about...

So.. I decided to drink a couple green beers just for fun. I bottle condition, after 3 days I opened a bottle and it was barely drinkable. Strong astringent taste, little to no head. Tonight is day 6, still a faint astringently taste but definitley more drinkable, drank the whole thing...

Just emailed my lhbs owner, he's going to order up notty and centennial next week! Sweet!

Hmm. Any similar hops I could use?

I'm missing a few ingredients but I'm hoping I can sub in some stuff: my lhbs doesn't stock cara-pils. Can I sub in .75# more two row? Also, no centennial hops. Can I sub with cascade instead? I also have some few month old EKG kicking around. S-05 works with this as well, correct...

What's the consensus on fermenting time with S-05? I took a reading after 3 days and I'm at the suggested FG. I plan on leaving it another week and change, probably a total of 2 weeks. Sound about right?

So I brewed this up on Saturday, BIAB method. Put 28L in the pot as I thought 30 would be pushing it, turns out it would have been okay. Ended up with 19L (5.0 Gallons) volume into the fermenter so my OG was slightly higher @ ~75% efficiency. Got a terrific hot break, stuck at 152, was my first...

Be precise with your cleaning and sanitizing. That's one thing you don't want to mess with. A few degrees in your mash here or there, not a big deal. Infecting it, big deal.