I was actually just going to suggest this. I did this with the very first batch I made and it worked great.
Haven't done it since though, I find it's easier to just rinse them out when I'm done with them and throw away any I forget about that get funky.
I was just thinking that I can't imagine big breweries taking gravity reading the same way we do. That seems like too much of a manual process. Also, watching Brewmasters, they seemed to have a graph on the gravity readings as the beer fermented, and a manual hydrometer really doesn't lend...
Definitely glass. I have amassed quite a beer glass collection over the past few years and it would be a shame not to use to its fullest every once in a while.
I have had nothing but good beer with the Midwest kits. The instructions were a lot of help when I first started. However, even though they suggest transferring to a secondary, I stopped doing that about a year ago and my beer hasn't suffered from it.
The Belgian Wit is my favorite and the...