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when using a starter should you oxigenate the wort as you would do it with out one?

Have any of you made chili beers? I read they are supposed to be really good, so in the two batches I have bottled I added some diferent peppers to a few bottles, however I took a look at one of them today and I can see a white film at the top of the beer is this normal? For this one I added a...

What about temperature in the bottles. will it be ok if after controling a secondary temperature at 70 F, I bottle and store at 85 F?

I understand that if at room temperature let say about 85 F I leave a bucket of water, the water will stay cooler than 85. But what about beer, is it the same? Will the temperature of the liquid (beer) inside the cardbory will be cooler than room temperature?

I'm almost ready to bottle. (1-3 days) I have some questions though. I have with me three different options for sanitizing, (iodophor, clorox, star san) which do you recommend and how is it used to sanitize for bottling? Any addicional handful tips on bottling day???

In Spain you can ask for a "Cañita with soda" and you´ll get Half Lager beer and half lemon soda this tastes great and is quite refreshing. In Mexico we drink "Chelada" and "Michelada" this is a glass with salt and chilli on the edge kind of like the margarita thing, then add ice and lemon...

Thanks both for the fast answering. I guess with some experince I'll pay back to new begginers.

Hang in there, the same happened to me a a few weeks ago when I racked my first batch ever to the secondary. I wanted to check its OG to make sure it was ready to rack. To avoid contaminating my beer I decided to throw sample away but why throw, better taste it. It smelled awful, kind of sour...

I'll be brewing a bock beer with OG supposed to be around 1.075. I'll use wyeast munich lager yeast and I read that a starter should be made when brewing high OG beers so I went on and made my starter with a similar OG (maybe a bit higher kind of 1.100) and it is stored now at 45 F The starter...