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Good stuff. Thanks everybody.

I am on my way to Colombia this weekend and will be there for a couple of weeks. I get around ok, but I don't know if there is a way increase my chances of finding any good beer that might be around. Here in the U.S. I ask around for "breweries", "good beer", "craft beer", or "micro brew"...

I don't think that my dry Kool-ade version needed to be any sweeter, just constantly mixed so the lemon did not all sit at the bottom of the keg, so I would not worry about adding the artificial sweetener.

35 degrees or 60 degrees? Which is a better place to keep it if I am going to let it sit for a couple months?

I am hoping you are right (and that is my guess too). Unless our beloved acidic cleaner somehow made the freezing temp higher. Some internet searches today taught me that some long chain alcohols and testosterone <insert joke about adding testosterone> can move that freezing point up a bit...

I knocked the fermentation chamber temp down to 31 this morning and headed to the office... and then once at work I remembered that I have a jar of (mixed) Star San in there as a bubbler. You think it is going to blow by the time I get home?

Hey Dan, I am not seeing the cheap peristaltis options. What am I missing?

I would like to have a solution for fighting gravity for sparge water and also moving some wort through a whirlpool/immersion chiller but I don't think I am ready for investing in a March pump. I normally have drunk friends come over when brewing, I don't mind using their drunk muscles.

Did you make a note of the temp of your wort when you measured your OG? What was your expected FG before you got your lower than expected eff?

Having good yeast blow out of a starter breaks my heart. I always just stand there cleaning up the top of my wife's fridge (hopefully before she gets out of bed) and think: "Damnit, here I am trying to get my yeast count up, and half of it just scmutzed itself out of the bottle". Just feels like...

Great thread folks. Hey Ed, do you think that your troubles in years 2+ could have been a result of the news paper that got put down at grade? I understand that news paper serves as a great weed barrier, to keep the weeds from coming up, but I wonder if that kept the roots of your hops from...

To each his own. :). When I started my deal I wanted a 5% beer with the lemonade flavor added so i went with the dry Koolade. If you are mixing 50/50 and want a 5% beer you would need to brew a 10% beer. This year I just need to figure out a way to keep the lemonade flavor from settling to the...

Soak or don't worry. The next batch will just chang the style of the odor. Word to the soon-to-be wise... Don't "scrub" your plastic. It is almost impossible to do without scratching. Those tiny scratches can harbor bad bugs. Peace.

Which yeast did you use?

Wait for the krausen to fall. Those yeasties are still working for you.

34260+6 (Brown Pants)+5 (Sweet Stout)=34271

Sounds like you nailed it this time. I would give it one or 2 more weeks in primary and then bottle, not bothering with a secondary. To avoid the fermentations that stall out and make the best possible tasting beers, the general things to remember: 1) oxygenate that wort really well as you are...

+5 Perfect Day IPA = 28932

Math adjustment for BullDog and Buffman: 27,871 + 5 (Bulldogbrewer) + 6 (Buffman) = 27,882

Ha I skipped right over that string because the title referred to the other part :) . Thanks for bringing it up, and thanks to everyone for their input. Peace.