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Whenever I pitch my starter and I am druck or not so druck, I always gotta cheer: GO YEASTIES GO! My neighbors must think I am the king of UTI's or something.

Well I just finished drinking my first beer from my first temperature controlled batch. WOW! What a different that makes. It's hot here in Tucson and even in the winter the house was just too warm. Beers would creep up into the high 80's. I gotta say, temperature control makes the world of...

So I have been searching craigslist religiously for a chest freezer to use as a fermentation chamber. Most of the freezers I have found are about 10 years old give or take a year or so. My question is, how long do these units last? I know that is partly dependent on the cycling of the...

Forgive me, it's the last night of finals week and I am fried. However, my roommate and myself are in a beer argument: First off, he does not like the taste of hops at all. Any bitter beer turns him off completely. Tonight he made a strawberry blond ale from an extract kit. The instructions...

So yesterday I started by first brew. Followed all the instructions up until adding the wort to the primary fermenter. I siphoned the wort into the primary fermenter but did not stir it. There was a very obvious separation between the water and wort. I let it cool over night and this morning I...