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Like you, I had 18 years with a company and through no fault of my own was laid off due to poor management. I floundered for a few years and eventually started a different career. About a year after I was laid off, they called and asked me to come back. I told them that if they were the only...

Uranus, MO (they make fudge there)...Seriously!

Count me in, Thanks

I'm by no means an expert but Google is your friend. I recently did something similar to blueberry's for a blueberry coffee stout. https://www.google.com/search?q=making+soda+syrup&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS754US754&oq=making+soda+syrup&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.11600j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Both are fine. One just has slightly more pressure in it. They wont draw sanitizer back in unless a drain is open which you don't have on your ferm bottles. Nothing to worry about.

The wallet is a powerful thing! I just made a similar decision and bought the Gigawort (5 gal.) as I'm currently doing BIAB. I stumbled across the Robobrew a few days ago and like the larger size and the grain basket feature but not for an extra $100. both look like they are made by the same...

Soon to be 59. I brew a 5 gal batch about every 3 weeks. My sons (all legal age) help me drink it. I'm slowly draging them over to the dark side (IPA's) but brew a few other styles for variety.

the yeast was edme and "best before 07/00.

Just an update. Airlock activity is beginning after 5 hours.

[QUOTE=You plan on repitching fresh if/when fermentation refuses to start? . Maybe, This was just an experiment just to see if using sealed/aged ingredients would even work. My fermenter will probably never forgive me.

So the other day a coworker gave me a Williams Brewing starter kit with buckets and an American Ale kit he received in 2000. Everything was vacuum sealed and still packaged. I threw most caution into the wind and decided to boil the almost 9lbs (thick as molasses) LME, used 4oz of hops (1...