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• Posted in thread: Amarillo Hops on 01-06-2011 at 10:19 PM
  If your friends have never brewed before, why are they so partial to Amarillo? Dry hopping with
  Amarillo is just fine. Dry hopping adds an additional burst of hop aroma and flavor to your
  brew. This i...

• Posted in thread: Did I Ruin My First Batch on 01-06-2011 at 09:53 PM
  The strange part about the yeast that the kit came with is that it instructed me to use half
  the packet and throw the other half away.Do you remember how big (in grams) the yeast packet
  was? And did y...

• Posted in thread: First Starter? on 01-06-2011 at 09:45 PM
  I wouldn't worry about the krauesen either. I've had starters that had no krauesen, and
  starters that had so much that it came out the top of the flask(1 liter in a 2 liter flask),
  even on the stir pl...

• Posted in thread: Gravity not adding up? on 01-06-2011 at 08:21 PM
  Recipe?

• Posted in thread: Propane Burner on 12-27-2010 at 02:13 PM
  Scroll down to the bottom of this page. Read the "similar threads".

• Posted in thread: bottled my first brew! (questions) on 12-21-2010 at 03:46 AM
  That is a fairly typical change in gravity for an extract batch.Sure you can try one in a week.
  But it would be better if you could hold off until at least 2 to 3 weeks before putting the
  bulk of them...

• Posted in thread: Two Packs of Yeast with IPA kit? on 12-19-2010 at 08:49 PM
  2 activator packs would be 2 billion cells if I'm not mistaken.It's actually 200 billion cells

• Posted in thread: Quick question... on 12-18-2010 at 01:37 AM
  Why would you do such a thing in the first place?

• Posted in thread: Should I let my beers completely ferment out before bottling? on 12-17-2010 at 07:09 PM
  Pay no attention to the potential alcohol scale on your hydrometer if you're making beer. That
  is there for wine makers who let it ferment out to 1.000 or lower. You shouldn't ever have beer
  that ferm...

• Posted in thread: deactivate yeast on 12-17-2010 at 04:36 PM
  I suppose it's because "deactivated yeast" sounds better than "dead yeast"