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thanks for your time RM, thats good info. So that being the case do LME's have the the potential to make a better beer then DME? Thats what you make it sound like. Wait i thought you strain the wort when going from the brew kettle to the fermentor. I thought you only had hops in the...

Random questions. Why do many recipes call for a dry and liquid malt extracts? I thought they were essentially the same? At the end of fermentation how much sediment is left in the fermentor? Does the racking cane remove any sediment while bottling? When talking about commercial beers being...

For some reason it didnt like my last post so i'm having to retype it. Couple questions. I'm looking at getting a proper brew kettle to get started with this, something like such http://www.torontobrewing.ca/servlet/the-147/Blichmann-Engineering---dsh-/Detail . This one has a spout thats 3/4"...

good info. More questions! How much "sludge" for lack of a better term can i expect there to be at the bottom of the brew pot. I'm thinking of buying this 10 gallon brew pot Blichmann Engineering - BoilerMaker 10 Gallon Brew Pot And not only would it allow me to do double batches of beer...

I thought i only needed a blow off tube if there wasn't enough room in the carboy, so 6.5 gallon carboy with 5 gallons of fermenting wort.

So i love beer, love creating things and this just seems like a natural evolution for me. I'm reading how to brew by john palmer, almost done the malt extract brewing section and then I'm going to read it all over again, theres lots of things i dont quite understand. While i'm going to follow...