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I've bottled with using the dishwasher on high heat as sanitizating. It doesn't clean the bottles which is why I wash out each bottle as I pour.

It's in the mid 80s now with a heat index of 100+ and I've been drinking since I got home at 5. :tank: Seriously though, I used BKF when I used to bartend a few years back.

I did actually tell her and I got the look of death especially since I had done nothing but read up on brewing for the previous 6 or 8 hours. She did buy me the starter kit though so I guess I can deal with it. I'll go find some bar keepers friend and run it through. Probably will do this...

I have a quick question and might be thinking too hard into this, but oh well. SWMBO decided to cook this weekend and for some reason wanted to use my pot that I usually boil the starter wort in. After burning some food in it I was forced to use some dawn to clean it out. From everything I've...

You will be fine, 68 is usually still within most ale fermenting temps. Even still pitching cold will just increase the lag before you start to see activity in the air lock.

I have used the muslin bag that comes with kits lately to put the hops in (grains in a nylon bag). It keeps most of the hops in the bags, but the rest is strained when I pour into the primary.

You should be fine at 80, it's not ideal but you shouldn't have an issue. Being in the South also I understand the controlling temps problem in the summer. What I do to try stabilizing the temp is to put the fermenter in a rubbermaid container filled with water. If the temps start to get a...

Don't know why it took me 4 or 5 months to finally join, but I've been reading a ton on here lately so I figured it was time. Currently on my 6th homebrew.