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I guess the more important question is, will the bottles I capped with the worn out capper still seal? Should I worry about that? Maybe recap them?

So the bell just wears down after use and then doesn't crimp as well?

I have one of those red plastic "butterfly style" cappers, and I noticed when capping my last batch that the caps didn't seem to be on very well. It didn't take much force to pry one off. Do these cappers wear out and need to be replaced? Does it sound like mine is malfunctioning?

Thanks Gildog!

You sir, are a man of far greater self control than I.

So say I'm making a Belgian Pale Ale, and I put the following fermentables into it: 6.6 lbs Briess Pilsen LME 2.6 lbs Muntons Light LME & 1 lbs Candi Sugar which Beer Calculus says should give me an O.G. of 1.077. Then I look at that, and I begin to wonder if maybe I didn't mean to...

Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll try the bleach solution first, and then keeping it always full of beer. Any ideas about how much bleach to use?

After fermenting an apple cider a couple weeks ago my primary bucket smells distinctly of apples. It's not really a bad smell, but you can tell what I've been using the bucket for. Is this just bad cleaning? Will this give some apply flavor to my next batch? The bucket's been around for...

Scratch that, I'll want more Millennium to compensate for a smaller boil volume.

So I've played around with what you've got here, to better fit some ingredients that I have available, and what I'm looking at is something like this: 7Lbs Light DME 1.0 Lbs Caravienne 1.0 Lbs Carawheat 0.5 Lbs Caramunich .5 oz Millennium 60 min 1 oz Mt. Hood 40 min 1 oz Mt. Hood 20 min 1 oz...

Patience is my number one brewing enemy. Do what Reddheadedstepchild says.

Nice job reminding us for the 1420 reverence, Bob! I'm going to bring that into my every day beer comments.

This recipe looks interesting, any tips for converting it to extract?

Thanks for the suggestion Yankeehill, but I just opened up an IPA I had in bottles. Does anyone else have any suggestions?

I just picked up some hops on sale from my local homebrew shop, and I'm looking for some good extract recipes to make. I've got: 2oz Mt. Hood 4.8% 2oz Styrian Goldings 3.6% 2oz Millenium 15.9% 1oz Nugget 14.6% I can always pickup more hops if needed, but I'd like some suggestions for...