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• Posted in thread: Star San Storage on 12-26-2012 at 07:55 PM
  One of my SS pots has some etching from 1 week of contact with star-san. Don't know how quickly
  etching happens, but SS doesn't seem like a good storage material. I store mine in an HDPE 5
  gal bucket ...

• Posted in thread: Adding malt at knockout. on 12-19-2012 at 04:20 PM
  Never used brewersfriend.com before, but had a look and it does account for changes to hop
  utilization if you scale recipes. So, that's cool! I found that you have to make sure to enter
  the correct bo...

• Posted in thread: Adding malt at knockout. on 12-18-2012 at 04:02 PM
  A few things will likely change, depending on your equipment. One change that may have escaped
  your attention (it certainly did mine the first few times) is that if you're decreasing the
  amount of top...

• Posted in thread: What's your occupation: Engineer or Non-Engineer on 12-05-2012 at 01:33 PM
  I'm not an engineer (quantitative anthropologist), but I like to think that every brewer is an
  engineer. Just a little. With a hat. Then again, my maternal grandfather was an engineer at
  Bell Labs so ...

• Posted in thread: Problems with head on 11-28-2012 at 09:04 PM
  Definitely a bit early to say whether you've got "head problems." I'd fourth zeg, inhousebrew,
  and unionrdr's advice. Leave the bottles someplace warmish (68-72F) for another week, then put
  a few in t...