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I did a yeast starter today and everything was going good until the very end. I forgot to sanitize the stir bar before I dropped it in! I did rinse any dust off it so it should have been fairly clean. Will this mistake rune my starter and my beer? Should I start over?

Thank you that helps.

My dad, brother and I will be traveling through Europe at the end of September 2014. We are going to Hungary, Austria, southern Germany and northern Italy. We plan on going to Oktoberfest but everything else is up in the air. Any place we need to go or do? If anyone from the forum will be in...

My dad, brother and I will be traveling through Europe at the end of September 2014. We are going to Hungary, Austria, southern Germany and northern Italy. We plan on going to Oktoberfest but everything else is up in the air. Any place we need to go or do? If anyone from the forum will be in...

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I had a barely wine from mikkeller (Denmark) and was shocked when it poured real light like yours. It is now my favorite barely but I can't find it anywhere!

I love midwest. Great prices but they charge exactly what fedex charges them and that is pretty steep. Their orders always take awhile to ship.

I used some real citrusy cascades in a hefeweizen and the banana clove did not mix well with it.

I'm real curious what your OG is on that barelywine and what is the SRM looking like?

Did you add sugar before you bottled it? If so just move the bottles to a warmer location in the house and give it a little more time.

To help learn the difference between the base malts I was thinking about making some single malt beers. 3 gallon batches of all the base malts with the same light hop addition (25 IBU), WLP001 yeast and the same gravity in each, around 1.040. My concern is I will end up with a lot of very bland...

Congratz on the first batch

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regular plastic bottles are not rated for near boiling temperatures. I would definitely worry about chemicals and taste issues.

Cool! I'm doing an ordinary bitter on Thursday. I think the main thing is to find your consistency and then be consistent with your process.

65% I followed the steps they did in the video and just "tea bagged" the grains every little bit to circulate the water. Didn't rinse them at the end. I used the default Beer Smith 2 BIAB calculations for water volume and temp and they came out perfect. I did a English Mild at 1.034 OG. So it...

I have been an all grain brewer for about a year now (about 10 batches under my belt), but after watching the latest Brewing TV I was inspired to try BIAB. It looked simple and I like the idea of a 3 gallon batch. I hit my pre volume gravity and I am in the middle of my boil now. I'm excited to...

I have the grain crushed at my LHBS. I did calibrate my thermometer and it was accurate and I am using 1.25 q/lb.

After doing a few brews on my new all grain system I am only getting an efficiency between 50% and 60%. I am only using a stainless steel braid in the bottom of my mash tun so I figure this is the main reason for the low efficiency. My main concern is if this efficiency is TOO low and will cause...