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Me and a buddy both brewed a Berliner Weisse. His was brewed on 1/1/12 and mine was brewed on 1/29/12. For his, he used wheat liquid malt extract and I went all grain. We both used Pilsner grains and WLP 677 (Lactobacillus Delbrueckii) and WLP 011 (European Ale). The main difference is...

I think it'll be fine. If you wanted to, obviously there are tons of things to be upset about, but everyone makes their mistakes and figures it out. I have similar experiences with my buddy who occasionally brews with me. I go through my process with him and explain why we need to do these...

Wouldn't boiling it warp the plastic? And how long are you talking about? 10 min?

I was making a Berliner Weisse and had a starter of Lactobacillus ready to be dumped into the carboy. Then without thinking I just dumped the Lacto into the carboy with my brand new funnel with a splash guard. The funnel's infected and can only be used for sours right?

Picked up a chest freezer and temp controller about a year ago and began using it as a fermentation chamber during my brewing seasons (i.e. when I have the time and resources), then in the off season, it's a beer chest. Just recently got started kegging, so now it's a keezer. I noticed right...

Going to brew a Berliner Weisse based on Jamil's recipe it calls for 4.2 lbs of Pilsner malt and 3 lbs of white wheat. Like the Spurhund Zunge recipe Jamil says that you only boil for 15 min. Why isn't DMS an issue for this beer with the short boil time and Pilsner accounting for over 50% of...

I use distilled

I could only get through the first 10 or so replies, but I'm going to go ahead and assume everyone's being trolled at this point. Please feel free to let me know if this has evolved into a meaningful or interesting discussion since that point.

Your thermometer sticker should actually be within a degree of the temperature of your fermentation. The 5 degree difference would apply, if your temperature reading was measuring the ambient air temperature.

As many people have stated, getting the best value for my money is my biggest priority. Fortunately, there are four LHBS within 40 min of me and their prices are quite comparable to online retailers. I find that most of the time if I'm shopping online it's to find more exotic ingredients (like...

I bought my refractometer for $40 from Austin Homebrew Supplies and I've been quite happy with it. Its readings usually match my hydrometer, so most of the time I don't even bother with the hydrometer.

@nebben make sure your refractometer is still calibrated by measuring distilled water. The calibration can get thrown off when you check the gravity of hot wort. Make sure the gravity level of the distilled water is still 1.000

Sorry, didn't mean to detract from your original question.. I have a 10 gallon aluminum kettle also and the bottom half looks okay. Hard to tell from the pic, but just make sure that the water level you boiled was higher than the level you plan on brewing. I agree with the person who said...

I thought you're not supposed to use oxyclean or PBW on aluminum because it'll leave the metal pitted?

I've made a couple of strawberry blondes. In those brews, I let the beer ferment in the primary for a couple of weeks then racked the beer into a secondary with my strawberries. Adding the fruit in the secondary instead of the boil helps keep the flavor and aroma in the beer. Someone...