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Everyone: thanks for the input. MagicMatt: Your full explanation in your post was very clear. About a stopper, you said... "Personally, I use a solid bung stopper (remove the airlock altogether) when cold crashing. This will still create a negative pressure in the carboy, but it will not...

I always start with a blowoff, then switch to a 3 piece. Once I tried a Belgian golden strong and it was in my main fridge around 35 for weeks at the tail end, and my little bit of research caused me to believe a s-type is better at those temps because of the possibility of drawback. I used one...

Wondering if the attached image of an s-type air lock modification would work. I get by pretty good with DIY engineering, but not so much with physics. (and as I'm getting started with brewing, working on warming up to chemistry too). I'm ready to move to fermentation temp control, and i'm...

This was a morning of crushed pessimism. First, I received way more and way quicker responses than imagined. Then, the little brew store had the exact yeast (same as original - WS-05) that I was sure they would not have. What's this world coming to?

You folks are amazing. I planned to post my question and immediately fly to the store, hoping there may be one response when I returned. But I posted, blinked, got the first response, typed my response to it, hit submit reply and saw four more.

What about the aeration issue?

Last night I brewed a specialty grain and extract IPA (DFH60 clone). I believe all went well except during rehydration I screwed up and added my dry yeast (Safale US-05) to 150 degree sugar water. Immediately realizing the error, I cooled it (that took several minutes) then tried the "test"...

I will do that and compare it to the directions. I have another question. Last night I did the first FG hydrometer reading and tasted the beer. My hydro reads 60ish degree water at .998 instead of 1. The reading on my beer was 1, so I figure it's 1.002. I'll do some more readings, but...

kombat, do you think it's too much, too little, a typo? I'm using the old Yuengling Premium 16oz returnables - a pretty heavy bottle.

It's great to receive so much response, and all optimistic... I'm getting a warm and fuzzy feeling - much like what I expect when the brew is finally consumed. With respect to the Duval clone instructions in the PDF with my second post, one other thing is completely new to me - the cold...

Thanks guys - I'm following you, with the exception of nucleation points, which I'll look into later. I think I'm good on following the directions on the sugars, and I do intend to use my hydrometer to ID the end of fermentation. But I didn't know how to interpret the directions on the second...

Hello, I'm Rob - new member, and not much experience with brewing and forums. I'm not sure if my question belongs in this thread - please advise on that. I'm brewing a Duval clone. It calls for what I think of as an actual refermentation - with 8 oz cane sugar (boiled in 2 cups water) and...

I looked around the forum and thought I should have posted the issue below as a new thread - so I just did it Hello, I'm Rob - new member, and not much experience with brewing and forums. I'm not sure if my question belongs in this thread - please advise on that. I'm brewing a Duval clone. It...