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Those are the big activator packets, the standard wyeast smack packs say '15-18 billion when fully activated', so I'd guess that when you buy the dormant pack, it's something significantly less than 15-18 billion. I got mine wrong, it had 4 billion cells, not million, but I still would have...

I just put some milk in a saucer and dunked the labels in it. Stick them to the bottle, then smooth it out with a towel to wipe off the excess and remove bubbles. Took me less than 10 minutes to do 50 bottles.

The bourbon vanilla porter is on deck for me :) This isn't like that though, it's a rather light similar in style to bud... Sort of. It's a little bit above bud but not a lot. It would be good with a good cream ale base instead I bet. Oak barrels are pretty expensive, but I'd think you...

I'll definately take a corona over any american light lager anyday. And I don't care what anyone says, I'm putting a lime in it too :) While bud/miller/coors/etc taste a lot to me like watered down skunk, corona has a much cleaner taste and it goes down easy with no real protest from the...

Hmmm, we picked up a 6 pack of this for the hell of it. I'm somewhat torn. I love vanilla, and it's very vanilla, so that's good there... On the one hand, it's almost kinda good, looks pretty and has an interesting vanilla taste with a touch of bourbon. On the other hand, when I think about it...

I'd have to say belgians are up there for me too, at least the quadrupels. I have yet to find one I have any desire to drink, and any other beers that have rasin/date flavors, can't do those either (had a few doppelbocks that fall into this range). Basically any beer that takes on complex...

Here's a good reference: http://www.ratebeer.com/Story.asp?StoryID=482

1.033 seems a little low, with 6 lbs of LME and .5 lbs of crystal you should be in the upper 30's. Not that far off though. I suspect, however, that if you were expecting 1.051, then the recipe probably called for 6 lbs of DME. I forgot to convert my recipe this morning and ended up with the...

Ok I finally got around to brewing it today. We'll see how it turns out, I followed the boom boom version except I cut the flavor hops in half (0.5 oz). I wanted it to be on the sweet side without hop flavor overpowering the sweetness. I kept the aroma hops at 1 oz, since I figured a nice hop...

That's pretty cool. Those have been used for quite a while in food processing and medical applications, I didn't know you could buy them that cheaply for home use...

I use the spigot to transfer to secondary. It's usually 1-2" above the bottom of the bucket, so you leave all the trub behind. Much easier (to me) than trying to keep the siphon tube from dipping into the trub. I don't think it's going to aerate anything any more than a siphon would. I just put...

You can always insulate it and make an icebox, just get the ice man to stop by once a week with a 20 lb block :) I can't see a as being really feasible. I mean, if you're basically going to make a homemade refigerator, it'd be easier and cheaper just to rip out the cabinet and put in a mini...

Just saw this on digg, it's a linux brewing application but it has windows and mac ports as well. http://www.usermode.org/code.html The UI doesn't look terribly impressive, but if your budget is $0, it would probably get the job done. It doesn't have options for yeast attenuation or mashing...

Why not? A bottling bucket is usually just a regular old plastic bucket fermentor with a spigot attached. I have two of them I use for primary fermenters... I can't imagine why you couldn't ferment in it, even if they don't ship a lid with it you can always buy a lid for it.

Whether it's equivalent or not doesn't matter, it's whether the kegs will fit or not :) You'd have to measure, but I'm thinking it might not work. If you look at the bottom, there's a bump out for the compressor. Doesn't look like there's enough room for kegs from the picture, but you'd have...

Try pitching a massive starter of White Labs WLP099, and after it's done, pitch some champaign yeast. No idea how that would taste, but it should get your FG pretty low...

Looks good, although I'm not sold on having a bucket only for bottling... You could also use a bottling bucket as a primary fermentor. But then again in never hurts to have extra buckets for doing multiple batches at a time. Other than ingredients, bottles/caps and a large stockpot, that should...

Mine's in the fridge, hasn't blown up yet :)

You could make several batches, yeah, might be a bit bland though. I'd get some crystal malts at least and a few hop varieties and you can make some pale ales cheap. They sell their own yeast too, for $3.95 a vial. I ordered one to try. If you make a starter and split it in two, that $3.95...

I've heard it's not uncommon for people to get a 50 lb bag of uncracked 2 row for around $30. That would be $0.60 a lb so $6.60 for a batch, saving a little less than $2. Insignificant, yeah. I think the big kicker though is that if you buy whole grain in bulk, you can store it for quite some...