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• Posted in thread: Yet another lame on 06-16-2013 at 02:57 PM
  Welcome, and good luck with your brewing.

• Posted in thread: First brew EVER today on 06-15-2013 at 05:22 PM
  I use a laundry type tub, but for your extra warm room temperature you might be better off
  using a large cooler so the insulation will prevent it from warming up too fast. A wet towel or
  tee shirt ove...

• Posted in thread: New brewer headed to the middle east on 06-15-2013 at 05:10 PM
  Good luck with your assignment and with brewing.

• Posted in thread: First brew in the fermenter! on 06-15-2013 at 05:07 PM
  Congrats on the first batch.

• Posted in thread: About to rack to secondary... on 06-13-2013 at 03:04 PM
  If you aren't going to add anything additional to the beer, just relax and let it sit in
  primary for a while (another week or two) longer. No use in risking any problem introduced by
  transferring to a...

• Posted in thread: Well i guess i have to bite the bullet! on 06-12-2013 at 04:44 PM
  The sacrifices we make for our beer...

• Posted in thread: Greetings from Helsinki on 06-12-2013 at 04:43 PM
  Welcome to HBT

• Posted in thread: Low OG on 06-12-2013 at 04:40 PM
  Most likely the top-off water wasn't completely mixed with the boiled and cooled wort. It's
  really hard to get enough mixing to get a good hydrometer reading. I don't even check OG any
  more. If you ad...

• Posted in thread: Styles for Dry Yeast on 06-11-2013 at 07:15 PM
  Mangrove Jack's came out with a line of dry yeast - several strains. I haven't tried them yet,
  but it looks like there might be a lot better variety now if those turn out to be good.

• Posted in thread: Alpha Acid on 06-11-2013 at 06:37 PM
  From the way I read your post, I do about the same thing that you did by running it through
  some software or my own spreadsheet. A couple of items - 1) 9.5 IBU seems really low for most
  beers. Is it a...