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+1 on the patersbier. just bottled my fourth batch of the stuff and i absolutely love it!

+1 on the yeast starter congrats...and the wort chiller! i'm still using ice baths, three years into brewing...

if you pitch the liquid and not the "sediment" into your fermenter, i can't imagine you'll get much benefit (or fermentation)...that tiny cake in your jar has all the goodies in it. the yeast have all dropped out of suspension and are sleeping on the bottom of those jars. if you only add the...

i pitched this w/o a starter into 5 gallons of patersbier. 15 hour lag and four days later, it's still blowing out of my 6 gal carboy. this beast would ferment turpentine!

9755 +5 Patersbier +5 Porter +5 Wheat Ale +3 Heather Ale +1 Edwort's Apfelwine ------- 9774

i'm loosely following the heather ale recipe from mosher's "radical brewing" and he calls for a pound of honey added to secondary. i plan on dissolving the honey in a pint or so of 150F water, adding it to my secondary, and racking the beer on top of it. anyone see a problem with this? would...

so i made my first starter using one of those NB foam stoppers... stupidly, i swirled the wort around a little too vigorously after pitching the yeast. i didn't soak the stopper but some of the wort "crept" up into the bottom of it. yank it out and throw some foil on top of the flask or...

I also have a stuck fermentation with this kit...OG: 1.066 and it won't budge past 1.024. Started oak-soaking in a "dash" over 16 oz of Bulleit Bourbon. Can't wait to try this brew...