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Welcome to HBT. :ban: Read past threads and feel free to ask questions. This is a great place and a great group to learn from.

Welcome to HBT! :ban: Looks like Pennsylvania is bringing it.

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I'm a beer snob now. I only drink red beer with red meat and white beer with white meat. :D

Dogfish Head in Fairfax and Falls Church. Both are pretty close to my hotel. I may have to see if they do growlers to go or at the very least go and have a meal and a beer. Thanks Kilted Brewer.

I am on a business trip in Herndon, Va next week. Are there any local brewpubs or good local brews I should visit or try while I'm there?

I have developed a liking for the bitter stuff. BUT I still enjoy the "lighter" side as well. Actually I have found that I taste more in the beers at the other end of the hop scale.

RDWHAHB!! Don't sweat it. Of course if you're worried, you could drop ice in your tub and get it as cold as you can for a couple days.

How much yeast do you pitch for the starter? Meaning, if you're making a starter for a lager then you need a much larger yeasts cell count. Say you make a 5000ML starter. Do you pitch 2 vials of yeast into 4600ML (so you don't go over the 5000ML) of "wort" to make your starter? Do you pitch...

Never mind. Mine wasn't so bad then. I chilled the starter and now am debating whether I want to try and use the yeast at the bottom or not.

It is happily fermenting away. This was the first brew using my mashtun and my fridge. At least the fridge is working right. knock wood..... I should have finished beer in about 7 days and then it is into the keg.

It only gets better. My starter had been going in my ferm. fridge and I had no signs of life / fermentation of any kind after 24 hours It looked exactly like it did when I pitched the yeast. Had to make an emergency run to my LHBS and pitch two tubes vice one in a starter. I just didn't...

In the middle of batch sparging my manifold came apart and runoff stopped cold! So I ended up having to scoop out about 5 gallons +/- of 168F water and 12 Lbs of grain using a tupperware container and straining/draining it through the screen in my funnel into a 1 gallon plastic jug. So it is...

Has anyone ever order anything from them? All they carry is stir bars of various sizes and shapes. I need to stock up as I have a habit of dropping them into the fermenter and forgetting they are there 2 weeks later.

So buy a cheapo lamp and use a 25 watt lamp? Is light 24-7 during fermentation a problem?