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You may also have had a mini-krausen in the bottles and that is what you are seeing.

Cool and dark is the way to go. I have shelves in my basement away from natural light that stores all my brews.

Yes they do explode and the glass shrapnel can imbed itself inches into your skin, face, or walls. It is NOT something you want to mess with.

1. Minimum of 4 weeks 2. Don't always use one but have left several batches up to 18 months 3. Minimum 3 weeks but had lots of brews around for several years

This is the site to use for Sake. He is a member here but you'll get faster answers on the site itself. He is the go to guy for Sake. http://www.taylor-madeak.org/index.php

I agree with Ischiavo, split between two bucket for best results. Also, loose lid is fine and will not allow anything bad to get in. Primaries do not have to be air tight for good beer.

They will be viable but may not be the right sex. You want the female plants only and with seeds you have a 50/50 chance that they will be male. If you are growing just for hops, buy starts. If you want to grow them for decoration (like that's going to happen around here) you can use the seeds.

It will be fine. Hops are basically weeds and its really hard to hurt them.

There is a good chance that it is this or similar company http://www.usplastic.com/

That was fantastic. :D

Welcome to HBT! Walker is correct on both points.

The downside to using DME is that it takes longer to carbonate your beer. There really isn't any upside to using DME. Because of the small amount used, you get no flavors from using sugar.

Yes. 22 ouncers usually take a week or so longer the 12s.

Yes to both questions.

Yeast doodles, mine looks like that a lot before it's completely settled.