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One of my SS pots has some etching from 1 week of contact with star-san. Don't know how quickly etching happens, but SS doesn't seem like a good storage material. I store mine in an HDPE 5 gal bucket from Ace Hardware and have never noticed sliminess... I'm going to go check now.

Never used brewersfriend.com before, but had a look and it does account for changes to hop utilization if you scale recipes. So, that's cool! I found that you have to make sure to enter the correct boil size after hitting the scale button, since it adjusts your boil size as well as your...

A few things will likely change, depending on your equipment. One change that may have escaped your attention (it certainly did mine the first few times) is that if you're decreasing the amount of top-off water, your hop utilization will increase. This means a more bitter beer if you just...

I'm not an engineer (quantitative anthropologist), but I like to think that every brewer is an engineer. Just a little. With a hat. Then again, my maternal grandfather was an engineer at Bell Labs so that basically makes me one. Proof: I fit all of my stuff into very small pieces of luggage...

Definitely a bit early to say whether you've got "head problems." I'd fourth zeg, inhousebrew, and unionrdr's advice. Leave the bottles someplace warmish (68-72F) for another week, then put a few in the fridge. After a week in there, you should see better head retention. If you don't, here...