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Would you ship?

just brewed it this last weekend. cant wait! only one question. how much priming sugar does everyone recommend for this? i dont want to add too much. any suggestions? thanks.

looking for grolsch bottles. i live in pa and would even pay for them and drive to pick up.

Day 7 and its still churning away! Its a slow ferment but its getting done. Sent from my SCH-I535 using Home Brew mobile app

Update. We went out for a while, came home and I checked it again and there was activity!! Its still going so I'm going to gI've it the two weeks and check it again. Thanks for the advice everyone.

Ok. Got home and checked sg. I pitched the yeast sat around 3:30 pm. As of 4 pm today, my sg went from 1.100 to 1.060. I think I'm going to let it go for two weeks and check it again. Sound ok?

Re-aerating, isn't that a bad thing? I was always taught that once you put the yeast in, not to introduce any more O2. If its ok at this point ill try it. Now, I have yeast nutrient in already and I used it in the starter, i also added 2 pounds of honey. Should I add more nutrient? How do I do...

:off: since ive got you guys, do you know of any program that will let me print bottle top labels? had one, but i reformatted and forgot to save it. thanks

ill let it go for now, i hope i didnt stress the yeast out. i did a starter to make sure i was pitching a good amount. ill take a reading in about a week. i typically leave it in the primary for two weeks before moving it to the secondary with the fruit.

i did this batch on sat afternoon. i never did get the activity i normally do with this beer. day one, the temp went from 68 to 72 and things looked fine, decent activity. yesterday, things started to slow down already, and today, nothing. now, i know airlock activity,(i have a blowoff tube on...

I have a question. I think my ferment stalled and the temp dropped. Since I don't have a brew belt, would it be ok to do a warm bath to try to restart the yeast? I can't repitch because this yeast is only made once a year and I only got one vial. Thanks for any help

Guess I'm just lucky to have such a great lhbs.

Thanks. Just went there and looked around. Looks like a great resource. Saved it and I'm gonna print it out to put with the rest of my info. Thanks a lot!!:-)

I don't understand. Is everyones lhbs that expensive? I can get bulk extract and grains for less there. Even the "chain" stores couldn't beat their prices. I don't go anywhere else. Love them!!

Hello. I have a question concerning bottle carbing my beer. This is a big beer, og is 1.100. Last year I checked online and I was told to put 4.6oz of corn sugar in. I didn't get very good carbing. Did I not put enough in? I'm considering putting 5 1/2oz in this year. Does that sound right? Or...