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I just got into the hobby with samekit from NB. I've done a couple of extract kits and they've gone fairly well. The directions helped me build confidence in my techniques. One consideration I would give is that if you are doing a full boil it is going to take you awhile to cool the wort. I...

Thanks for the reassurance. Do you recommend pitching the entire starter or putting the starter in the fridge, decanting the liquid, and then pitching just the cake?

So I bought a package of Wyeast 1450 about a month ago and put it in the fridge immediately after it arrived. A couple of days ago I took it out of the fridge, warmed it to room temp (about 70 degrees), and smacked it. It swelled slightly but not as much as a package of 1056 I also bought...

Natty Ice in college...luckily after 5 or 6 I couldn't taste anything. Lately had a Hooker Watermelon Ale that was undrinkable. I rarely throw out beer but I couldn't stomach more than a few sips of this. Good smell, bland taste, horrible, soapy finish.

It's generally a 1/.75/.6 ratio between grain/LME/DME so 6 lbs of grain would be 4.5 lbs of LME or 3.6 lbs of DME.