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Kept cool and dry - Sealed in ziplock bags etc. A couple weeks to a month, maybe a little more.

One of those two ingredients was supposed to be added to the Pale Ale kit. The other would be an addition. Again I think the amounts is small enough 1.9 pounds OR 2.2 pounds that it will raise the ABV some. I don't know the difference between Brew Enhancer and Corn sugar. But I doubt it is...

If the recipe calls for one or the other adding the one that was not supposed to be added will not change things too much. That is not a lot of extra fermentables. It will likely be a bit sweeter but not excessively so.

So you get notifications on your 272 messages..... I get notifications on my 18,696 messages.......

' Just saying that most will post things and say they will report back. Later when the beer is done they have forgotten which posts they said they would get back to. And even if they remembered that they said they would report back they might have trouble finding which thread it was.

Do you remember every post that you replied to? Do you remember which you said you would get back to? Could you find it if you did? For me this one doesn't even register.

I wash my glasses in the dishwasher. First beer = very little head, each successive beer has a bigger head. The bottles don't get hit with any soap or detergent.

Mentioning that because Tannin extraction should not be considered a big problem. And unless something is very amiss, you are unlikely to have a pH level that will produce any problems.

I think your beer will be fine. Tannin extraction is not something to concern yourself with much. It may even be a myth. Decoction brewing INTENTIONALLY boils grain. I had a very slow sparge once where I had already used rice hulls. I added another couple of handfuls, stirred them in...

I used a turkey fryer for the HLT and a Bayou Classic SP10 for the boil kettle for years. Now living in Florida I wanted to move into the A/C so I bought the Unibrau. I got the extra 600w element. But with other projects, I have only used it once.

IMO, the fewer holes the better. I use a Lavatools instant read digital cooking thermometer. Measure the mash and close the tun for an hour. Every once in a blue moon I would open to stir at a half hour. Almost always hit my numbers pretty closely.

This thing got HOT!!! It could never be sold these days!!!

Knock on wood. I ferment for at least 14 days, usually 21 to 30 days, I take one gravity reading and if it is within a few points of predicted FG and I "feel" it is done, I bottle it. After all a recipe's prediction of FG is just that, a prediction. I have never had a problem.

Blow off tube! At the start of every fermentation. Unless you have a large enough fermenter or a closed system. Read about cleaning up after the airlock gets plugged and it then blows off the lid or blows out the stopper,

I personally wouldn't purposely aim for a high gravity then dilute it. I aim to end up with the proper gravity in the first place. I had dialed in my old system so that I was usually within .005. I have gotten a new UniBrau and have not used it enough to know what to expect, yet.

I believe I found a shot from the same place as posted. In a search for the Market Church in Hannover.

The picture I found of the Bass Brewery has a lot more of those "silos"??

Using a yeast cake is fine - if you want to brew the smaller beer. Otherwise make the starter.

Sampling twice to be sure fermentation is finished is a very common procedure. If you don't splash the beer your risk is low. I usually take only one reading, sometimes at only 2 weeks. If it is very close to the predicted FG, that is all I take. No bottle bombs yet. Oh and when bottling I...

Describe where you added the sugar. The process of bottling is usually to transfer the beer to a bottling bucket leaving the sediment in the primary behind, mixing in the sugar solution and bottling right away. If you added sugar to the primary it would really stir up the sediment then be very...