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• Posted in thread: Can't use my hydrometer... Uh-oh.... on 06-05-2008 at 04:19 PM
  you really take hydro readings every day... even during active fermentation? Or are those
  simply estimates based on the OG and FG and the time span in between?I'd be a little freaked to
  take that many...

• Posted in thread: Bubbling? on 06-04-2008 at 04:39 PM
  I am a new brewer myself (currently fermenting my third batch) and was very anxious to get my
  first batch in my belly.Because of the great community on this site, I have already learned
  that longer is...

• Posted in thread: My Nut Brown Ale is overcarbonated on 06-03-2008 at 06:53 PM
  sounds like an infection... happened to the first batch I made with my friend earlier this
  year. Do you happen to see a ring at the top of the fluid levels inside your bottles by chance?
  that's a tell...

• Posted in thread: Whoops - too much (wort) on 06-03-2008 at 12:23 PM
  I'd like to shake the hand of the guy that invented Dutch Ovens. :)

• Posted in thread: Whoops - too much (wort) on 06-02-2008 at 07:51 PM
  Brew up some Apfelwein and see what she says ;). You may get off the hook for the fermenting
  beer smell.tasty eh? Get a nice appley smell?

• Posted in thread: Removing blowoff on 06-02-2008 at 05:06 PM
  Very generally speaking... when is it safe to remove the blowoff tube and replace with an
  airlock?Just after the kraussen settles?

• Posted in thread: Whoops - too much (wort) on 06-02-2008 at 05:04 PM
  It fermented like devil's water... was incredible. Thank goodness I used a blowoff tube for the
  first time. 6.5gal carboy and the kraussen almost touched the mouth of the glass!SWMBO didn't
  care for t...

• Posted in thread: 5gal carboy (for a primary?) on 06-02-2008 at 04:19 PM
  Anyone do a primary fermentation in a 5gal carboy? Obviously a blowoff tube will be used, but
  I'm just wondering if people do it.thanks!

• Posted in thread: Flask - stove top on 06-02-2008 at 12:54 PM
  Well... just as an update: Brew day was on Saturday... nice hour long boil, quick chill (about
  15 minutes), got wort in carboy... shook it up really good, shook my e-flask starter which
  started fizzin...

• Posted in thread: Whoops - too much (wort) on 05-31-2008 at 11:11 PM
  SLIGHTLY LESS ALCOHOL!!!!!!!! OMG IT'S RUINED!!!!!!!!haha just kidding.. thanks guys.