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    Screwed up two batches in one day.

    A new record! I brewed both a Surly Furious and Stone IPA clone last weekend, and I managed to mess up on both. On the first, I didn't add an ounce of the flavor hops at fifteen minutes and again at 5 minutes. I should've been adding an ounce of two different hops at both time points, and...
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    How large can my starter be?

    I'm planning on doing a couple of IPA's this weekend, both using White Labs WLP001. One of the recipes calls for double pitching, so I would need three test tubes of yeast total for the two brews. If I just buy one test tube of yeast and make one large starter to split between the two...
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    Original Gravity and bottle conditioning

    I'm noticing a trend after the 5 or 6 extract brews I've done, plus perusing this board. Is it fair to say that the higher the OG or ABV of the beer you're brewing, the longer the bottle conditioning should last? Is it the complexity of the ingredients in a particular beer that's more...
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    How did the old timers do it?

    I mean the REAL old timers. Anywhere from 200 to 5,000 years ago. Specifically, how did the brew process go with no sanitation, when the cardinal rule these days is sanitation, sanitation, sanitation? Was every beer they made infected, and they made do? Was some good and some bad? How...
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    Just toss it out?

    My first brew attempt. Everything went fairly smoothly except for the yeast. The liquid yeast was left at room temperature for a four days because I thought it was dry yeast and I went on vacation. When I got back and got ready to brew the batch, I realized what I had done but said to heck...
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