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I've watched guy's bottle into plastic bottles with screw on lids on youtube. The plastic bottles will hold more pressure than glass bottles. I've never tried it though.

Yes, I was using a White Labs Bock Yeast 833.

I'm brewing a Shiner Bock clone from AHS. It's a mini-mash. OG - 1.050 I made a one liter starter for it. I pitched the starter as soon as it got down to 75 degrees, then I put it in the fridge to start dropping the temp to 55 degrees. About 18 hours later it started bubbling. 24 hours...

That's what I thought, I just wanted to make sure. Thanks for the response.

So, I've read all about starters. One thing I can't seem to understand is, do you pitch a starter and a vile of yeast, or is the starter alone what you pitch?

10 days in and it's pretty much stopped fermenting at 1.018. I kept it in a temp controlled fridge at 54 degrees for the last 10 days. OG 1.051 SG 1.018 The instructions said it should end up at 1.008. What should I do now? I'm thinking I'll just move it to secondary and lager for a few...

Both recipes have the same instructions. Boil 6 pints of water, add can contents (hopped malt extract), and sugar or dry malt if desired, stir. Pour into fermentor, add cold water, pitch yeast. Set in dark room, 65 to 70 degrees, for 6 days. OG - 1036-1040 FG - 1008

I have two Muntons beer kits that were given to me. A American Style Beer kit, and a Canadian Style Beer kit. I don't want to brew either kit really, so I'm thinking about mixing the two in 6 gallon batch to get some really strong beer. My question is, can I mix both malt extracts and...