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Hello, I have a $25 gift card at Northern Brewer for sale. I'm looking for $20 or I would trade for a Austin Homebrew Supply gift card. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks.

Yeah, I rinsed with water around 168. I figured this was a RDWHAHB situation but I'm new to partial mashes. Thanks for the info.

So I made my second partial mash yesterday and had some issues. I heated my water, added the grains and adjusted until I had a temp of 152 as the instructions suggested. I wrapped my kettle in towels and brought it outside to sit for an hour. When I checked the temp at 30 minutes, it had...

Alot of good info here too: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/how-make-yeast-starter-pictorial-76101/

Hello, I made a yeast starter on Thursday night (1L) for the hefeweizen I plan to brew this weekend. Unfortunately, unlike all the other starters I've done, I don't see any action in my flask. I have the starter on a stir plate, and cooled the starter below 70 degrees before pitching the...

Your starter is definiely ok, it's fermenting like crazy! I'd take it off the stir plate and just let it do it's magic. What's the ambient temperature in your house?

Lol, I almost didn't put that as a category. I only bottle, but I know it's definitely not my favorite thing to do. I am curious to see if someone actually does love to do this.

Yeah, I'm still at the kit stage but am looking forward to creating my own recipes. I realized my initial question wasn't really what i meant, so I changed the wording slightly.

Just curious, what part of the homebrewing process do people look forward to most? I used to tell my girlfriend I enjoyed my brew day more than actually drinking my beer and was wondering if anyone else felt this way.

Austin Homebrew Supply sells a selection of "Session Beers" that are suppossed to be ready to bottle/keg after 10 days: http://www.austinhomebrew.com/index.php?cPath=178_452_627 Maybe other stores do too.

My girlfriend is a BMC drinker, but I've got her into Hoegaarden now. Maybe she would like a belgian white?

FYI, I see the Beersmith software does conversions too. It will probably give you the same info you will get here, but just giving you another option.

At this stage, you are probably fine. As you can see from the exploding airlock, gas wants to escape from the fermenter so it is difficult to have contaminants sucked into the fermenter. You might look into getting a blowoff tube to prevent future missiles.