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Hello all, For my second extract brew I did a heff from the LHBS. It consisted of 7# of bavarian wheat extract (Liquid), 1 1/3 oz Hallertaur (1 @ 60, 1/3 @ 10), and a Wyeast smack pack (for wheat brews, guy said it was very good for heff). Brew day was really easy and everything went fine...

yea 45 bucks is more than the beer...no go in my book.

what is the price for about 48-50 labels?

yea but each sample is a great opportunity to have a taste

Hello all, Im wondering if anyone knows a good way to make custom bottle labels. I do not have any fancy software (unless you think ms paint is fancy). So let me know if there is something which is free to DL. And once you have a design, where do you send it to get them put on stickers...

You will often create an air bubble where your smaller I.D. cane (or autosiphon tube) meets the larger I.D. silicon tubing. This is due to sudden expansion of area. By squeezing the silicon tubing right after it meets the racking cane the flow will 'catch up' to the air bubble and it should go...

once you have started flow how does an autosiphon help?

Hello, Yesterday I racked an ale I had brewing in the fermenter to the secondary. I was using a racking cane and tubing. The question I have is how far above the trub do you usually stop siphoning. I got pretty close, and even tilted the fermenter in order to try to suck only liquid up...

Ho much wort should I add to a starter, and how long should I let it 'marinate' until I can definitively say I have good yeast and pitch?

Is opening the nutrient package (smacking and letting sit for a period of time) equivalent to making a starter? Or are you suggesting to take some of the wort that the yeast will be devouring out early and mixing it with the contents of the smack pack? thanks

Thanks for the info!

Hello, I have a question about the smack pack type yeast. Does everbody wait the full 3 hours. It says you can also directly pitch into the wort so im wondering if I need to wait 3 hours after 'smacking' to pitch. Also, if I have aerated/oxegenated the wort, do I mix the wort/yeast...

what you want to do is drive a nail into the top........

I have heard that somewhere else but it doesn't make sense to me. Why would a package store have empty bottles? Do packies usually have a recycling depot in them????

MD brewday sounds like a plan. mind fillin me in on the highlights (the other thread is 33 pages of people discussing what they are gonna bring). IE where, (I know joppa) when, what to bring (besides beer), does it cost anything etc. -Ian

Just spoke with UPS and it is AGAINST THE LAW unless you are contracted to do so, I.E. you pay the government a lot of money. Scratch that idea

I guess the best thing to do would be to find out how much the shipping would be...Ill try fedex, ups, and usps and see how much it is per weight of liquid (then we can do the math and find out whats best). -Ian

*cough* point taken, however I still think this is a good idea. Maybe I just like getting packages in the mail...

Ok. So I know I am new to this, and someone has probobly done this before. But I have a good idea that will deff. expand my knowledge of beer and brewing. I feel that this brew community is very helpfull and trustworthy so I have no hesitation in suggesting this. Here it goes. We need a...

Awesome, Ill take them out and give them a shake when I get home. thanks for the advice