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If I remember correctly, the taste came out pretty dang good, but the body was pretty thin. I took notes at the time, but I've moved since then and have no idea where they are.

I have Willamette, Cascade, Centennial, and Chinook growing right now. The Chinook is having a harder time than the rest, but I am getting cones off of all them (they are first year plants too) right now!

I'm in Orlando area. Centennial has hops already, first year plant. https://www.dropbox.com/s/e4gq186uiove8zb/2012-05-12%2009.05.46.jpg https://www.dropbox.com/s/7otn45hfgmy6yvm/2012-05-16%2018.19.35.jpg https://www.dropbox.com/s/7lrp7eow3wssivj/2012-05-20%2016.58.56.jpg...

3rd in line.

My local apiary had a variety of honeys last time I went in and told them I wanted to make my first mead. The man who runs the place showed me the backroom where he had >10 meads going, and he frequently wins awards for his meads. I told him I wanted to make a strawberry-banana mead that would...

+1 on not using Chlorine to sanitize. I had two ruined batches with a taste similar to what you are describing and I was using Chlorine to sanitize for a year. So 2/12 batches were ruined basically, fast forward and I'm using star san now, no ruined batches in the last 5-6. Also get a filter for...

I got one going at www.austinsbeerblog.com . I primarily review beers and document my homebrewing experiences.

Thanks for the information! I made my own today and all I needed to buy was the rheostat and the knob! Today I made a stir plate! | Austin's Beer Blog

For the Oktoberfest it was a week fermenting at 50, slowly ramping up to 65 and then back down to 50 for a few weeks if I recall correctly.

The pils base malt was pilsner and the oktoberfest was 5lb vienna, 3lb munich, 2.5lb pils. Neither had a 90 minute boil, I used a 60min boil Yes. I've been meaning to get some starsan but I usually forget/am too lazy to go get it on brewday. Looks like that will be my next buy before my...

The fault I am noticing smells and tastes strongly of hose water on a summer day when you first turn it on. I don't use hose water and I've had the majority of my batches come out smelling/tasting fine. Some information that might help diagnose what I am dealing with below. 1) My teacher in a...

Check the sticky at the top of this subforum titled "Washing Yeast Illustrated". It's very informative and I've followed it multiple times with success. I've used 8mo old yeast with success before and I imagine I could use older yeast, just haven't tried so yet.

Hey Erroneous, yeah I ended up getting around 15 which turned out to be too many. I've had some problems with them which I've needed to fix (bending the lid lips up and replacing some of the valves). I've got 5 left that I haven't touched and presumably still need some work but if you want them...

I'll take some and pay for shipping!

If no one wants to pick this up locally send me a PM and I would probably pay for shipping to FL.