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I only use a secondary to dry hop or if I am going to age the beer more than four weeks. That being said, there are still occasions when they are useful and you can double your primary fermentation capacity with another carboy.

Starters allow the healthier cells to reproduce in a separate environment and you will therefore be pitching more healthy yeast cells into the wort. The emphasis being healthy as opposed to overall cell count. As many vials contain yeast that die during transportation, pitching two vials is...

Although you're in Venezuela, if there is a way that you can get mail from Brazil, Lamas Brew Shop in São Paulo has a ton of White Labs. The shipping is expensive because they send it express and they have to pack it with ice, but order a whole bunch with some friends and it may be worth your...

I had been using the OxiClean knockoff, Sun, to remove labels and it works great. I recently moved to rural Brazil, though, and have not found anything similar. Does anyone of another solution that has the same glue dissolving substance that is safe to use and cheap? I have been brewing in large...