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Sorry to resurrect an old thread. But I recently bought this kit and saw the strong recommendation for a blow off tube with this beer. I was gonna go with just a regular airlock and a drop of fermcap S but I decided to go the blow off tube route. I'm glad I did! I probably would have had a huge...

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Thanks for all the help. I will utilize them in the next batch I make. Cheers.

I am assuming that the hops are fresh. I bought them from the only LHBS that I know of on the north side of Chicago. And I used them about a day or two after I bought them. I also started the timing and threw the bittering hops in when I got the boil started. So when the boil gets going at 200...

So I got a Mr. Beer kit on the cheap and made the batch that came with the kit. Wasn't the greatest but it was drinkable. I did drink it all. Threw everything out afterwards to save space. That was about 5 years ago. Fast forward to the present time. This former Miller Lite fan is now a craft...