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Count Me IN!

Welcome back...to life and brewing.

Count me in!

tried this place? http://www.cornykeg.com/product/universal-lid/

I have used champagne or crown corked bottles before. I use a regular #8 or 9 cork with a wire. I just put a standard crown cap in between the wire loop and the cork. It' works for me. If you have a champagne corker, all the better.

Is the renewal cumulative? If I renew now with time left on my membership, does it add a year at the end of that one?

Im at 25 and counting. That+32655.5=32680.5

Glad you enjoy it and welcome to the obsession. :D

I use vodka. I've never had a problem.

sounds great

Make Wine.

If you can't use the hops fresh then there is nothing to stop you from drying and freezing them. I did that last year with my very meager harvest and I used them recently as a dry hop on a summer wheat all grain. The beer was delicious. I used maybe 1/2 oz. full leaf for a five gallon...

I'll try again

It helps to clear the beer though but maybe that's old school. And I like to get it off the lees.

It may have been a fast ferment and could be ready to move to secondary. You should get a hydrometer to be sure. That's the very best first upgrade you should do right away. In any case, opening the fermenter is ok just not too often and keep it as clean as possible. As far...