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Well actually I wasn't going to do a full boil. The recipe only calls for a 2 gallon boil and that's what I was going to do. I also have a 3 gallon pot that I've used for cooking, but I wasn't sure if I could do a 2 gallon boil in a 3 gallon pot safely. Your thoughts?

I've got an electric stove with a glass cooktop. I'm just starting out brewing and I bought a 5.25 gallon pot to boil with and I got it home and it says "Do not use with glass cooktops" on the side. I looked it up on Google and it said anything bigger than the size of the burner may crack the...

Thanks for all the good responses. The yeast doesn't actually bother me really, but SWSBO thinks its disgusting and said they must be brewing it wrong because "no other beers have that stuff in the bottom". I think she's just too used to drinking Corona.

So if I'm understanding you guys right.... I simply keg the beer, force carbonate it, and bottle from the keg?

Complete newbie here, so be gentle... Some microbrews I've tried have a lot of spent yeast on the bottom and others have little or none. I've read (on this forum) that filtering out the yeast will not metabolize the sugar after bottling and produce the CO2 necessary for carbonation. That...