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I've got the Ricki Carrol kit and I'm ready to try my first batch of cheese. I'm having no luck at any of the local grocery stores finding milk that looks usable, though. Most of it is ultra-pasteurized, and even the stuff that only says "pasteurized" is always "pasteurized, homogenized...

This is my first time using a White Labs tube rather than a Wyeast smack pack. I've done a Kolsch with the Wyeast before, so that's my reference for how Kolsch yeast "should" behave. The tube I used was WLP029 with a late June 2010 "best by" date. When I pitched the White Labs tube into my...

This is my first time ever growing hops. I started them off in planters just as an experiment, but now it looks like they're growing fairly well on my balcony. I haven't been watering them every day, but yesterday I caught up and gave both pots a decent amount of moisture. Today when I went...

This is the end of my first year as a homebrewer so I wasn't around for the hop shortages of the last couple of years. A few of the recipes I've worked on so far have called for Challenger hops or other types that my LHBS doesn't carry any more. I also haven't had any luck finding a source for...