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• Posted in thread: BIAB Brewing (with pics) on 01-01-2013 at 11:27 PM
  Edit: Most of the issue revolves around boiling & cleaning. How to boil & clean using two
  standard sized pots in a typical kitchen sink....

• Posted in thread: BIAB Brewing (with pics) on 01-01-2013 at 11:19 PM
  Question: I have been doing BIAB for the last 6 months (10 batches or so) & now that its cold
  as hell outside in New England, I was wondering how to pull this off indoors. My thought was to
  do the mas...

• Posted in thread: We tasted our first batch... on 11-21-2012 at 06:08 PM
  +1 to bill above. The Brewers Cyrstals could have thinned the body too, giving it a more dry
  champagne-like mouthfeel

• Posted in thread: Hot Break and Racking to Fermenter on 11-13-2012 at 02:15 PM
  I have a keggle with ball valve & would always gets tons of break in my fermenter no matter
  what I tried when using the valve. I have since moved to the racking method & has worked
  perfectly & not dif...

• Posted in thread: My new (future) assistant brewer. on 11-12-2012 at 01:54 PM
  Congrats - all the best!

• Posted in thread: Smell of rotten eggs coming from primary on 11-12-2012 at 01:49 PM
  What sort of beer? What yeast? From 30K feet, the sulphury smell is fairly common for certain
  yest strains....

• Posted in thread: Using an old packet of dry yest to kickstart fermentation on 11-12-2012 at 12:02 PM
  Thanks for the input - it's started fermenting steadily with 1/2 of krausen since about
  midnight. Like you said, there's not much I can do now. Maybe I should have waited until today
  & gotten a fresh ...

• Posted in thread: Using an old packet of dry yest to kickstart fermentation on 11-12-2012 at 10:44 AM
  Thanks - yeah, I had already raised to 68-70 & swirled twice with no luck. I know starter are
  recommended & used to do them a few years back, but I'm too lazy so have been just pitching
  right from the...

• Posted in thread: Using an old packet of dry yest to kickstart fermentation on 11-12-2012 at 10:28 AM
  Hi, after brewing an altbier on Sat & pitching Wyeast 2565 (Kolsch), I had no activity after
  ~36 hrs. To clarify, when I activated the smack pack, it never really inflated so I suspected
  something was...

• Posted in thread: Can i bottle at FG 1.013? on 11-09-2012 at 06:21 PM
  To answer your original question though, 1.013 is not too low for an altbier FG. Per the BJCP
  guidelines, the FG range is FG: 1.010 – 1.015. You're currently right in the middle so probably
  not going ...