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That is an excellent question, a yeast starter should not be greater than 1.040 as the gravity would be to great for the yeast to handle and would defeat the purpose!

Does the FB sit on the floor of the kettle and is just not meeting up flush with the kettle wall?

That's an interesting thought, i'm not entirely sure if there are any issues with the size of the fermentor and the amount of space that volume size would take up, however since there is more surface area the oxygen exchange ratio might be greater which would be could for yeast. My only comment...

I just drove to a near by brewery and asked if they had any decommissioned kegs for sale and they brought me a palate and said 30 bucks a piece take what you want.

Is this for a rims chamber? If so I ended up using a 4inch after using 2 reducers from the T.

http://www.brewpal.info/ Website says for some unknown reason it's not showing up in the app store. I'd check back in a week or so.

Anyone seen this yet? http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/tfr/2181116434.html

What i've learned is, don't take your first brew to seriously. Just relax and have fun follow the instructions on the kit and enjoy the experience. You are bound to mess up one thing like pushing the airlock in to hard and forcing the rubber grommet to fall into your wort. We've all done it...

I pulled the trigger on one about 3 or 4 weeks ago, still waiting for mine as well! Will be sure to post my thoughts once it's received.

You are correct, as long as you follow the proper dilution procedure there is no need to worry about the risk of poison. I believe the dilution i use i 1.25 gallons for every quarter of an oz of starsan or 5 gals for 1 oz starsan. Don't be afraid to mix up a 5 gal batch, it keeps for a long...

Nope, no need to rinse. Don't fear the foam :)

One other method if the foam scares you is to wait until you've added all the water you're going to use to add the starsan, this will greatly reduce the amount of foam you get. Me.... I love the foam it assures me that i am getting contact with the sanitizer in all the hidden naked to the eye...

Wow cory, you really went all out! nice job :rockin:

Are you sending out something related to btp or something to try out along side btp?

This is great, surfing hbt from my iphone while watching tv with the wife!

it's a combo of my first and last :)

Just wanted to give a heads up for those waiting, the hbt iphone app showed up in the app store for me today :mug:

If you read the manual on the refractometer it says to allow the sample to sit on the device window for 30 seconds before taking a reading to allow the ATC to function properly. Also the ATC is only good for a temp range of 45 - 90 degrees F if i recall correctly. When dealing with a few drops...

Sounds like fermentation took place, i've had a few that produced a light krausen. I'd just snap the lid back on and leave it for another 3 weeks, don't even bother with secondary. :mug:

Might be poor choice of wording, i just figured since i was posting figures in brix and SG it would be obvious i was talking about 2 different readings one from refractometer and one from hydrometer. I know what a refractometer measures ;-) I just find it hard to believe that the 2 figures...