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Yeah, learned my lesson. I'll purge with CO2 next time I secondary. I'm keeping my hopes up. I'll let it run its course and bottle and maybe it'll turn into something wonderful.

First infection. Showed up in secondary after about 2 weeks. Had to happen at some point, I guess. :/ Sent from my HTC One using Home Brew mobile app

I might do that next time on bottle-harvested yeast that I know I don't want a large quantity of. I built it up from bottle dregs to a 1500ml starter, then split the entire starter up into a few mason jars for later use; going to use each individual jar to make a full starter for each 5-gallon...

Harvested from a six-pack of Bell's Two Hearted, took a little less than a week in 4 steps. Ended up with just under 24oz starting with bottle dregs, going to use a jar to make a full starter next week to pitch into an IPA I'm brewing.

Answer was right in front me. Going to use a muslin hop sack @ 5 minutes and then pull it out at flameout. Thanks, toklas from Reddit!

Yeah, I'm looking for just a bit of that fragrant note in concert with the hops. Normally I would go over what I think would happen and test, or do a split batch, but I'm brewing this specifically as a competition beer and don't want to be knocked for excessive fruitiness. It just makes sense...

Searched, but couldn't really find an answer to this. I'm going to be brewing an IPA this week or next that I've brewed before, but I thought I'd try it with a hopstand this time. The issue being, I normally throw in .5 oz of sweet orange peel with 5 minutes left in the boil. With the...

So will writing over it with a dry-erase marker and then erasing it off.

Personally, I think that's just about one too many. I'm in no position to tell you how to live your life, however. Whatever gets your motor goin', man.

Too soon, man. Too soon.

Around 80%, +/- a tenth or two of 1%.

Worked like a dream. 80% mash efficiency, missed BeerSmith's predicted gravity by .002. Thank both of you for being awesome!

Didn't see this until I'd already enacted Yooper's advice, the screen is beyond that now; I bent and flattened it over with a channel lock: Top-down: Side 1: Side 2: Going to start grinding grain in a few minutes, I'll report back how she flies after the mash.

I picked up a 10-gallon cylindrical rubbermaid cooler for Home Depot and put a weldless ball valve on it with a torpedo screen; the problem being, the torpedo screen didn't fit completely and I had to bend it a bit to make it lay mostly flat on the cooler bottom. Will this kink have an effect on...

Ohhhhhh damn! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_burn_centers_in_the_United_States

I would wear the hell out of that.

Wait until you start obsessively sniffing the airlock.

A traditional American IPA. You'll thank me when you smell the airlock.

Good luck and welcome to the obsession my friend! Add 50-70% of the extract at 15 minutes left in the boil, forget what your kit instructions say about adding it all at the beginning. Brewing a Russian Imperial Stout tomorrow, we're brew buddies!

This describes the last month of my life so eloquently. It's... it's just such a beautiful thing.