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I just brewed my Christmas Ale... a stout with brown sugar and cinnamon (1 stick per gallon). the boil reeked up the entire neighborhood with cinnamon (last 10 minutes) and the wort tasted extremely bitter. After 1 week in primary, it is tasting DELICIOUS.. strong, but not at all overbearing...

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/103741-computer-controlled-cyborg-yeast "In an amazing but slightly weird world first, scientists have formed a feedback loop between common, baking and brewing yeast, and a computer. The computer can trigger the yeast to produce a protein, and the yeast...

freezing any biological thing kills it... except for some very rare exceptions (some kind of frog exists that basically has anti-freeze in its blood - but then, it's not freezing, is it). Ice crystals form, expand, and like a million little daggers, perforates cell membranes. If you have a...

some upright freezers have the cooling elements integrated into the shelving, rendering them immobile, and thus unusable for your application. So make sure ALL of the shelving is configurable and the cooling lines are not integrated in them.

how do you get it off and then cap the bottle without loosing the presurization? Or do you have to leave it on, chill it, and then swap it out quickly for a cap once the co2 is absorbed?

I would NEVER do this... but maybe try putting a bud label on a homebrew and see what the BMCer says.

FAA regulations require pressurization on any flight climbing above 10,000 feet (that would be just about any commercial flight you take). The cabins are generally pressurized at a relative atmosphere of 7,000 feet. So, the pressure differential is not nearly that much (but certainly enough...

If you followed the instructions then you prolly were mislead into rushing the process. Most of those instructions that come with the kits indicate 3-4 days in primary, then drink. That is terrible. 2 weeks primary, 2 weeks secondary (or bottle conditioned) is pretty minimum.

sophisticated gear required... A stick. Pour a measured gallon of water in your pot, stick the stick in, and mark the water line. put another gallon in, repeat.

be reassured... you are prolly fine.. as long as it smells yeasty and not rotten.

Tell him it will taste alot more like bud after he is done processing what he already drank.

I like Dominicans, in general, the best with beer. Specifically, anything from Arturo Fuentes.. my favorite being the "Short Story" from the Hemingway series. It's the perfect ring size and length for a pint (or maybe two).

Your FG should be closer to 20.. .24 hours for your yeast starter prolly was not enough to get maximum attenuation, though. The added ABV from the starter will most likely be negligible (less than 0.1%)

It is a dry irish stout, by category. "Stout" is a subset of porter. All dark beers of that type are porters... stout, extra stout, are all modifiers of the term porter. I merely expressed my opinion that it barely makes the grade extra stout (porter), therefore should not really be...

wait, what? there are islands with virgins? Gotta get me a boat.