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Ah, ok. That makes more sense, then. Sad that the average forum poster tends to word things better than a lot of "journalists" do.

"The amount of humulone in beer is so small that a person would have to drink 12 ounces – or about 30 cans – of beer in order to get its protective effect." Hmmm. Wonder how many cans the author consumed before writing this article...

Sometime overnight, things slowed to a crawl. Guess the yeast wore themselves out with the crazy fermentation they were doing yesterday. lol Sniffed the airlock this morning. Yesterday all I smelled was fuggles. Today it smells like beer. :rockin:

I hate living in BFE. :(

Got that one from my sister when I told her I was going to get into homebrewing. Led to an impromptu explanation of the difference between fermentation and distillation. :)

This. The McDonalds analogy is one that often comes to mind for me as well with BMC.

Here in Illinois, it's mostly governed on a township-to-township basis. Thus, out here in BFE, you have to drive a little ways if you want to get anything on a Sunday. In my town, there are only two liquor licenses, and they're both held by the 2 bars we have here. A big part of the reason I...

It was still a little warm for my liking an hour or so after pitching, (72) so I moved it into the garage for a couple hours last night before bringing it back to the spot I planned to put the bucket in. Could actually hear it starting to take off sometime around 2 a.m. :mug: Checked it a...

Just sitting here basking in the lovely malt smell that now fills my apartment and started hearing "burps" from the airlock already. :rockin: Definitely didn't expect it to start that quickly.

And it went pretty well, I think. I made the Midwest Porter extract kit. Only had a couple things go wrong. First, forgot to pull the ring off the jug of LME and it fell in. :smack: Made me glad I was about to boil the whole works for an hour. The other thing was, it took quite awhile to...

Thanks guys. Just wanted to make sure it wasn't a misprint in the instructions, since the calculated IBU seemed a bit low.

Hey all, while waiting for my shipment from Midwest to get here (due Wed), I decided to look over the directions again to make sure I'm squared away on what I need to do. The kit comes with an ounce each of Fuggles and Willamette hops, and says to use the Willamettes for the bittering. This...