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Welcome. Hope you enjoy your stay here

My SO is a Hokie but alas, he's gone over to the dark side and become an Aggie for graduate school. (I'm a Longhorn so we are a house divided). Welcome!

Welcome I'm Donna aka Skelegirl. I just started as well. Hope you enjoy your stay here

I cannot speak about the other ingredients, but the yeast should be fine. I would be comfortable using it next month as well with one caveat: as long as the yeast has been sealed in an airtight container. Most expiration dates are estimates only, and they estimate conservatively to err on the...

I love it... I think it looks great!

Welcome! I'm part of the San Antonio contingency.

Hello... I'm Skelegirl (aka Donna) also living in Central Texas; San Antonio but I am working on a doctorate at TSU. So if you see an electric blue mini cooper with a Jack Skellington magnet on the back-just wave. I bottled my first batch, Canadian Blond this past weekend and am planning on...

Welcome to HBT! I'm also in San Antonio and new to home brewing.

I asked a friend about the whole extract vs. bean issue (she's a chef who just opened her 2nd restaurant in San Fran) and she suggests that you use the beans via scraping like others have suggested. She also suggested that if you can get a hold of Mexican vanilla (comes in a huge bottle for like...

Welcome to HBT!

Mine comes from the idea that I am a girl who spends WAY too much time with skeletons as part of my doctoral studies.

Wow, there is quite a San Antonio contingency here. I just started last weekend and bought my basics through Home Brew Fetish. He even hooked up the Significant Other with a Rootbeer kit for him and the daughter unit. I live over on the Seaworld side of town but work in San Marcos.

Greetings! I just started my first batch on Sunday. Where abouts in VA? The only reason I am asking is because the SO is from Roanoke and we visit on an irregular basis.

Welcome!!! Looking forward to hearing more about your brewing adventures

Hello all: I've been cruising the net for about six months looking into home brewing. And I finally decided to get off my arse and bought a basic kit today with plans to start on Sunday (Unfortunately, there is that pesky little thing called work which interferes with my fun most of the...