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• Posted in thread: Do campden tablets de-chlorinate water on 05-08-2013 at 08:53 PM
  aquarium stuff is not going to be regulated to be food grade, so it can contain anything else
  as long as they don't think it hurts fish enough to be noticeable. Also I wouldn't want to be
  directly dri...

• Posted in thread: Belgian Saison Fermentation on 05-06-2013 at 04:52 PM
  take the gravity reading. do you know what kind of yeast it was? The Wyeast belgian saison has
  unusually high temperature range that it needs to finish. raising the temperature should help
  the yeast b...

• Posted in thread: Yeast Vial Tap Handle Adapter. on 05-03-2013 at 08:52 PM
  I'll take 4, pm me infojust throwing some ideas out there:would it be possible to make any
  taller to add a few inches to the height of the handle? or it would also look cool to have the
  aluminum base ...

• Posted in thread: keeping swamp coolers cool on 04-26-2013 at 04:52 PM
  you need something to carry the heat away. maybe find an old window AC unit or dehumidifyer
  that you can immerse the cooling coils in the water bath? or to make it less work make a swamp
  cooler and th...

• Posted in thread: How do you sanitize odd shaped or large items? on 04-25-2013 at 09:03 PM
  spray bottle + soak a paper towel and wipe stuff down

• Posted in thread: can I pitch onto yeast cake from secondary? on 04-24-2013 at 08:59 PM
  I've heard to wash and reuse yeast from primary, I guess this assumes yeast from a secondary
  will not be healthy from the alcohol? I have a lager that has been in the secondary for 6
  weeks, 8 since I ...

• Posted in thread: How long can yeast sit on a stirplate and still be usable? on 04-22-2013 at 06:26 PM
  i'd start over. being warm and stirred for that long they probably used up all the energy a
  week ago, and are dead/unhealthy now.

• Posted in thread: Keg Wine? on 04-08-2013 at 06:46 PM
  if you keep the keg at room temperature and use a short hose, like 1 foot, you probably only
  need like 1-2 PSI to push it out slowly. this probably isn't a noticeable amount of
  carbonation. im plannin...

• Posted in thread: Am I going to be late? on 04-03-2013 at 07:22 PM
  I got some from great lakes in middle of july last year and they grew to 12+ feet in cincinnati
  (with that heat wave). I didn't get any hops.

• Posted in thread: Growing hops on 04-03-2013 at 07:05 PM
  i grew first years in 5 gallon pots so i could keep a better eye on watering and pests .
  potting mix works great. they can be killed by overwatering without letting the soil dry some,
  over fertilizing...