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For those that don't know about it yet - Brewers-Assistant is a completely free (no trials, limitations, etc) , interactive and full featured brewing website that aims to merge quality graphics and user interface that you'd expect from a desktop app with a convenience and ease of access of a web...

Brewers-Assistant is a free (no trials, or recipe amount limits) web-app for creating and managing homebrew recipes. You can try the recipe designer feature in the preview mode at https://www.brewers-assistant.com/RecipeDesign. Since it's a web-app there's nothing to install or maintain. Note...

Just saw your post - glad you like it and find it easy to use. Stay tuned for the release this summer or fall (depending on my motivation to work on it after the regular workday :) ) - we'll be bringing support for tablets and phones, as well as faster recipe creations (like adding multiple...

You can try B-A at http://www.brewers-assistant.com. It's a completely free web site, no-trials, no-limits, with a full featured recipe designer. Note that, at this time, for the late extract to be recognized you'd need to have your extract added more than 30 minutes after the hop. So for...

Cool - glad you liked it ! Yeah, for now the preboil gravity field is there just for book-keeping, but with the next release we'll have eff. calculations based on it. As for 2) - that was a small bug in the timer library we use. It actually got fixed this Sat or Sun, so the next time you brew...

Cool- let me know if you have any questions. On a different note - folks, please make sure you got your email entered correctly before signing up, otherwise you won't receive the activation link. Thanks.

Folks, Thanks to the input of users from this and other forums what started as a simple "throw it out there and see what happens" project has grown into a full featured brewing app. For those that don't know - Brewers-Assistant is a free (no trials, gimmicks, etc.) web-site for homebrewing...

http://www.youtube.com/user/vat19com?v=zuDtACzKGRs lol....

Yup, exacly how I bottle these days - dishwasher on high temp with heat-dry. The OP might not have the dishwasher though, but dunking bottles in a bucket of starsan will do just fine.

I don't think you'll have any problems. I think I know what you are talking about - that foul odor is specific to baking bottles with tinfoil over (not sure what kind of reaction does it or what it is but I've had that every time I baked bottles). I bottled several batches with this , never...

Yeah, unless I'm making lagers (no need as the yeast is very slow fermenting) I always use blowoff tube these days.

I like that one - let me throw one back at ya . This is one of my classic St. Patrick tunes : and lyrics: http://www.metrolyrics.com/johnny-tarr-lyrics-gaelic-storm.html

This used to happen to me before from time to time - In my case the symptom was that the bottles that got bottled first were super-carbonated, while those after them would be flat(ish). Now I gently stir the beer in the bucket (with a sanitized spoon of course) every 10-12 bottles. So I'd bottle...

Cool - Let me know what you think.

Yeah, pretty close ! No, don't belong to the one just yet but I'd like to find one in a few months from now (right at this time I'm too busy for any extra activities but I figure few months from now it will slow down). Please let me know if you find a good one in the area. On a different note -...