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I have been working on this too. I have easy access to powdered yeast nutrient but I wanted to see what household/food items I could add to help yeast convert basic table sugar (also experimenting!). So far I have learned that adding some old yeast (brewers yeast, bread yeast, any yeast) to your...

oil is not water soluable, so no, the oil will not mix with the wort but when you consider the extremely small quantities required, who cares?

Bakers yeasts are isolated strains of brewers yeast. A better analogy would be to ask if you would eat feed corn instead of sweet corn.

Nutritional yeast by definition is dead yeast. It will not ferment anything, although it could provide food for viable yeast!

well....technically jacking is a form of distillation. Also called "fractional freezing" its hardly a big deal because all you are doing is removing a fraction of the water in your fermented beverage by freezing it (essentially the same process that icehouse uses) , but technically it is against...

oh, and as far as yeast and other additions: I figured a dry wine yeast would be appropriate, maybe champagne yeast, which is what I use for ciders and fruit wines (and I have a lot of it sitting around). For my first batch I want to keep it simple, this is mostly about understanding rice as a...

Thanks to all for the input. I'm trying to avoid using minute rice or flaked rice, mostly due to the pretension that I could use a non processed whole food product to create a fermentable. I hadn't thought of making amazake, many of the rice wine/sake recipes I have been able to find online seem...

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=avanti+mini+pub&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS327&prmd=imvns&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1008&bih=649&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=18240120586052531853&sa=X&ei=j76ITtnJEKjm0QHaken-Dw&ved=0CFoQ8wIwAA when it was working (that is to say when I put in a fresh...

I ended up getting an Avanti Mini pub instead, because supposedly it was all set up to do what I needed without a conversion kit. The problem is that the CO2 cartridges just aren't enough to dispense a full mini keg of homebrew. I talked to a gas distributor about converting the thing to hook up...

"not to derail... but I've been thinking of a sweet potato beer. Care to share your recipe or how it turned out?" sorry, I got distracted and never returned to this thread. I have to say the sweet potato porter was a bit of a flop, mostly due to inexperience. I was still learning how to mash...

Ok, I have seen several posts here that relate to this, but I still feel like I have been unable to resolve this problem. I recently found some amylase enzyme at my LHBS and I got excited, because I have been interested in experimenting with other grains, specifically rice. I understand that...

thanks to all, thats very helpful. I just threw some specs into brewsmith, which of course can't tell me how it will taste, but at least I will have an idea that things should work out in general. I will look at the Smash threads. Learning all the abbreviations on this site is sometimes more...

Ok, so I am all about craft brewing, I have a honey oat imperial stout, a cherry amber ale and a sweet potato porter sitting under my counter waiting to be kegged. On the other hand, I am curious about trying a very stripped down recipe consisting merely of 2 row, cascade hops, and notty yeast...

hahaha! THANK YOU! I am so glad there are people like you who are crazy enough to try stupid things like this. I am wholly convinced that this sort of experimentation is the source of all human innovation and civilization. think of the first people who tried drinking fermented liquids in a...

heres another option: http://www.compactappliance.com/EdgeStar-Deluxe-Mini-Kegerator-TBC50SOB-Beer-Cooler-Open-Box/TBC50SOB,default,pd.html?mtcpromotion=GoogleBase%3EClearance_Items%3EOpen_Box%3ETBC50SOB&src=SHOPDISCOUNT I just found out that with the CO2 accessory set you can use any standard...