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Floor oranges are still good!

The only reason to heat honey is to pasteurize it. Pasteurization heat is about 155F so adding it at 140F won't achieve that goal. Natural honey should be heated with some water on the stove so the insect legs, antennae, oils, dirt, honeycomb, etc. will separate and can be skimmed off the top...

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I go to the Home Brew Party meetings (Home Brew Dudes) once a month. It's the first Friday of each month at the store from about 7PM til everyone gets tired. It's also $20 a year and we usually all bring recent homebrews, talk about technique, and brew one beer. It's over near Nacodoches and...

#1 - Relax #2 - Don't worry #3 - Have a homebrew

I have a one gallon mead fermenting that I put in with 1/2 lb. of raisins in October. Within the first few days I had a blowout and put the whole thing on a blow off tube. I racked it off the raisins and topped it off after about 40 days. The white residue on the raisins was just yeast poop...

I bought the Hopnog 2009 kit yesterday and I'm planning on brewing it today. I brewed a Brewer's Best English Brown Ale that came out great so I'm looking forward to this one. I'll let you know the results in a month or so.

Lots of stuff! 3/4 lb. dark crystal (steeping @155 for 20 min) 1/3 lb. roasted barley (steeping @155 for 20 min) 1/3 lb. black patent (steeping @155 for 20 min) 3.3 lbs. dark Liquid Malt Extract (60 min) 4 lbs. extra dark Dry Malt Extract (60 min) 1 oz UK Phoenix hop pellets (AA 10%) 60...

I used White Labs London Ale liquid yeast. I let it sit out in room temperature for a couple hours while I brewed and then pitched it in right from the vial.

Merry Xmas Stout Airlock: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/video/video.php?v=1180204879279 Blowoff Tube: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/video/video.php?v=1180285881304

I brewed a BB kit a couple weeks ago. English Brown Ale. It's in the bottles right now so we'll see how it turned out... I liked that it had all the ingredients and measurements pre-bagged for me!