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Right. I wasn't understanding before. Just read the product specs and that makes sense.

Make sure your yeast strains are resistant before using media with a fungicide - yeast = fungus.

You might want to consider making a bunch of slants instead of using a flask for your stock culture. You can make a starter just like you would for brew day and then steak out 20 or so slants in screw top vials. This way you will have 20 separate stocks that you only open a few times as...

Right. Sediment said that he's putting the grains in and then bringing up to a boil, so I'm assuming that the grains are in there the whole time until it starts boiling. Sediment - I find that if I turn the power off right as it hits about 165 and keep the lid on, I may have to turn the...

I think you still might get astringency problems if you let it get above 170 for too long while the grains are in the water.

Hurdles: If you ship any kind of distance it will have to be fast and/or refrigerated (if not you really can't give reliable numbers for cell counts upon arrival) because the yeast will die off during transport - especially in hot and freezing weather. You really should find out if White Labs...

No worries about botulism either as long as the pH is below 4.6, which it should be in a cider - most fruit is acidic.

I don't mean to hijack the post, just wondering if Suthrncomfrt1884 would mind elaborating on the extract "twang". I think I might be getting this - it's kind of a sour and too sweet flavor and there is a kind of sharp sourish smell to the brew as well. I got this on my first and now my second...

For me, smoking while drinking gives me a headache in the morning even if I don't have a hangover per se. So damn hard to say no to a ciggie when I'm drinking though. So here's my cure: No smoking and a couple glasses of water at the end of the night and again when I get up to piss in the...

Thanks for all the advise. Yeah, I've read Palmer's on-line book about three times. I did do an extract with DME and steeped grain. I was very careful with the grain, 150-165F for 25 min. I checked it every 5 min. to make sure the temp didn't get too high. I was tasting the beer out...

I just got done bottling my second brew. It tasted good coming out of the secondary, but after being in the bottle for only a few hours it was really astringent (dry mouth/hairy tongue). I didn't let the StarSan completely dry from the inside of the bottles before filling (not soaked, but not...