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If you get a scraper meant for cleaning ceramic stove tops, they do wonders for peeling labels or wax from bottles (or corny kegs, whatever)... Basically a retractable razorblade.

After 4 days your primary fermentation is basically done... The rule I see tossed around is 1-2-3 : 1 week in primary, 2 in secondary and 3 in a bottle before drinking. For your first brew I'd probably just let it sit in primary for 3 weeks, pitch your dry hop about 5 days before bottling...

The higher the ABV, the longer a beer supposedly takes to carbonate. Also you'll want to have those bottles somewhere around 68F, if it's lower than that they will take even longer to carb up.

I'm going to assume you found us? Sorry been all wrapped up in work and not paying enough attention to my email subs :) if you haven't, drop me a PM and we'll get you pointed in the right direction.

You could go with Edwort's Haus Pale Ale (google or forum search)... Very simple beer and likely just sub out the Cascade for Citra and turn out a nice beer. I did it with Centennial and it turned out real nice. If it's your first brew, keep it simple and go with some US04/05/Nottingham - aka a...

Surprised there aren't more of us Canadians here, that or we just don't like announcing ourselves :) I'm in Kelowna, BC - we got a pretty decent home brew group going here, about 10-12 of us. I'm doing mostly 6G All grain batches and been brewing for a little over a year.

Naughty Hildegarde is actually labeled add an ESB, the first to drag me back to trying them. Red Racer's ESB is also excellent! I'd be pretty pumped to find a good clone of either.

Some crazy math here? (6 and 4 got transposed) You guys managed to jump the total by 2k gallons here :) 24,689

25,081.5 + 3 = 25,084.5 (and I've read the first 100 pages or 1006 posts) Cool to read through cause you get to see the progression of so damned much time :) Quite the thread :D