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Whew! Thanks guys for the reassurance. Ill relax now.

I just racked my wort (Porter) to fermenter and I realize I have no yeast. Nada. The soonest I can get yeast is tomorrow and it will be 28 hours till I can finally pitch the yeast. Although the fermenter will be kept at ~70f I'm worried my beer will be ruined. What do you guys think?

I got a chance to brew yesterday but I had no yeast to pitch. Then I realized that I have LOTS of yeast at the bottom of my cold bottled beers so I drank 4 beers during my brew day and saved the dregs. When my wort had boiled a while I drew off 2 qts of it, I cooled it in an icebath and then I...

Just go to bevmo. Buy many Bombers.

I don't want to buy or mess with a syringe so I just figured out the proper weight in grams. I measured 1oz on my digiscale three times and they averaged 40g, so 40/5=8grams of Starsan per gal. Thats easy for me to measure when pouring slowly from the container into a gal jug.

I want to mix Starsan one gallon at a time. The directions say 1oz per 5 gals so if I put my 1 gal jug on the digiscale and add 6 grams of Starsan and then fill to the top with distilled water, will that give me the proper dilution?

I love my Spiedel 7.9l fermenter. Never a blowoff. It is relatively easy to clean with a terry dish towel. I never use the airlocks and think they are completely unecessary. I just keep a loose cap on it.

Like Hamaki said, it all depends on how uniformly you mixed in the sugar.

I don't have or use any contraptions to aerate nor do I even shake my fermenter. I just rack vigorously from brewpot to fermenter letting it spash as I drain. I almost always pitch a slurry from a previous batch. Fermentation is always off to a good start by next morning and finished in 4-5 days.

All my bottles are Sierra Nevada. I got rid of all the rest. I use mainly 12oz and a few SN 24oz. I store my bottles in SN 12 pack boxes.

232/8=29

I definitely care about my homebrew clarity. Clear beer looks better and tastes better to me. Good looks is as important in beverages as it is in food. When I have properly lagered my ales they taste cleaner with less esters and are a joy to look at in the glass and to drink. That being said I...

I recently made a Coconut Pecan Porter. It was the most daring I've ever been with my homebrew ingredients but it turned out excellent. Here is my 5 gal recipe: 10.5# 2 row 12oz Chocolate malt 1# C60 6oz Amber malt 8oz steel cut Oats 8oz rolled oats 1oz Northern Brewer 60 mins 1#...

This is my Primary fermentation cabinet. It's an apartment size fridge/freezer with a Johnson controller added. It stays in my garage. I use a 7.9 gal Speidel tank. It never blows over on a 5gal batch. I just use film over the top hole and never use a airlock/bubbler. This is my secondary...

Your bug likely lies hidden from you in a spigot,valve or bottling wand tip.