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Hey everyone, I know what cold crashing is and I want to try it to get some more clarity in my beers. The only problem I have is that I ferment upstairs but the only place I would be able to cold crash is downstairs in an unfinished basement. The basement is too cold to ferment in and I do not...

Hey man, I am in worcester, I only have two brews under my belt but am loving it so far.

Hate to do it but I gotta say Kentucky also.

I'm going with 122

Hey everyone. I unfortunately have an infection in my first batch :( . I am trying to place where it came from. I am fermenting in a plastic bucket and all looked fine when I went to bottle and the sample I had tasted very good in my opinion. After about a five days I was anxious to try some...

You definitely steeped your grains too high. From everything I have seen 170 should be the max temperature.

To preface this I would like to say that I have only finished brewing my second batch this last weekend so my experience is rather limited. In reference to the hot break I did try to add 3.15 lbs LME to a 3 gallon partial boil (only have a 15.5 qt pot) this past weekend and tried to wait for...

Count me in!

This is awesome. I love the show and what you are doing here. My first batch is still fermenting so I don't think I will be able to help contribute much to building recipes but would love to taste them! I am really looking forward to hearing about all the beers but especially the wildfire and...

Thank you everyone for your input. I was trying to just kinda guess based on similar recipes and this helped a lot. I only have a 4 gallon kettle so that is why I can't do full volume. Maybe I will scale down and just try this as a one gallon brew instead so I can do a full boil. How much...

Thank you. I am going to have to put this off for a while because my LHBS ran you off cascade and they wont be in for a few more weeks. :mad:

Hey everyone, I haven't made a recipe yet but was looking to try to make a big imperial ipa and wanted to get some opinions on it before making it. I wanted to keep it as simple as I could but hope it still would give off a great flavor. Brew Method: Extract Style Name: Imperial IPA Boil...

I am in pretty much the same situation :tank: The waiting is killing me I already planned what I want to do for my next 3 brews! I was wondering though if people use buckets with spigots on them to ferment. I know it is at least water tight but I don't know if it would hold up completely...

I currently have my 1st batch in my fermenter and it still has another few weeks before I bottle it but I was wondering if after bottling the beer needs to be standing up or if it could be laying down. I don't have the cases from the beer and have been storing the empty bottles (after cleaning...

Don't worry @weaver I was wondering the same thing also. Thank you everyone for your answers I can't wait to start brewing!

Hey everyone, I am very excited to be brewing my first batch this weekend (just a american pale ale extract) and these forums have been very helpful. I read a lot of the long primary vs secondary fermenter posts and do not mean to start that whole thing again but it seemed like most of...