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What about glass? How much safer is it to use them after an infection?

Thanks for the update. Great news but at the same time sad news knowing that contaminated plastic equipment can't be saved but you can still use it for something else.

175 would denaturate/kill the enzymes so you'd have very little to no conversion at all.

I've noticed the film as well since I started to use StarSan, but it should be harmless since StarSan is no rinse

Don't worry, yeast has to be in the wort to ferment it. It would have sunk anyways. You'll be fine.

The cooler a beer is the less head I get. So try keeping them in the fridge longer and see if it helps. :mug:

Not sure what 2 1/2 is but whatever it is, using a hydrometer you need two readings to calculate the alcohol content: one before and one after fermentation.

If you used the amount of hops that was prescribed for 6lb dme and 1lb honey, it's going to be more bitter, first because you'll have less residual(unfermented) sugar and second because of the slightly better hop utilization during the boil. 6lb dme and 1lb honey would have given you an og of...

5 lb. Congratulations!

Thanks, what you're saying makes perfect sense, but why would you want to use a fixed amount of water with variable amounts of grains? Doesn't anyone want the maximum efficiency?

I would highly recommend that too, unless you know that you make good beer every time, but even then I would taste it myself first before serving it to someone else. Oh well, advices are asked only not to be followed anyways.

Apparently he's doing an Oktoberfest. This is supposed to be a lager.

Could it be because you had 3 gal of beer and used the priming sugar for 5 gal? How much sugar did you use?

I don't get this. So the less grains you use the greater the efficiency is? It seems that the graph is saying that with no grains you'll get 100% efficiency.:drunk: Enlight me, please!

KISS. Try Yooper's "yellow" fizzy beer.