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Soooooo I gots me a stuck cider. Some background... I used a local vermont organic cold pasteurized cider with no potassium Sorbate to begin with. I have always just dumped and pitched and had a fantastic cider at the end. This time I tried to get fancy and add some Campden tabs and pectin to...

Does the viability date adjust when you create a starter? I.e. On 12/15/2014 I brewed a 2.5 gallon SMaSH to bump up my heady topper experiment. I harvested some yeast from the fermenter on 1/1/2015. I created a new starter with what was harvested on 1/15/2015. Which date should be used for...

Background, I harvested some Heady Topper yeast and stepped it up to the 2.5 gallon mark so far. I'm about to harvest into separate mason jars for re pitching in later 5 gallon batches. My question is, when re-pitching Mr. Malty says to use 124ml's of yeast. Is this 124ml from the solid yeast...

What's the purpose of boiling DME for 10-15 minutes when making a starter? If conversion has already occurred prior to the drying process, why can't I just heat the water and dissolve the DME? I just got into the world of yeast starters/washing/harvesting/ect...

Anyone tried this or have any pro's/con's to drilling out the plastic big mouth? I like the idea of a base valve for siphoning as I'm about to break my auto siphon over my knee. I would just get the better bottle pre drilled but c'mon, who doesn't want a big mouth for super easy clean up! Sent...

Anyone tried this or have any pro's/con's to drilling out the plastic big mouth? I like the idea of a base valve for siphoning as I'm about to break my auto siphon over my knee. I would just get the better bottle pre drilled but c'mon, who doesn't want a big mouth for super easy clean up! Sent...

Soooo first all grain batch just finished per instructions from northern brewer. However I still have an unusually high FG? Everything was brewed as prescribed, efficiency looked good, just looks like the yeast stop working? Attached is the copy paste from iBrewer. Thanks guys! Chocolate Milk...

So im tryin out a lager for the first time in an extra fridge i have. I was carefull to keep turing the fridge on and off to keep it within lager temps. However, I had a big party and some jack hole turned the temp down as low as it could go so that he could cool off his Natty Light... Me being...

So last night i had some friends over to learn them the ways of home brewing. We all got in the RDWHAHB state of mind, but i think we had a bit to many home brews. I had a bunch of left over hop pellets, and my buddy wondered what they would taste like. Not the taste of a hop pellet (singular)...