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Thankfully, no cheesy smell or brownness to speak of. Used what I needed this weekend and vacuum sealed the rest. Thanks for the responses!

Guess there's only one way to find out! I'll bust it open this weekend before I get the brewing underway. In other words, if they're anything like my buddy Jimbo... :D

I haven't actually opened the package yet. My main concern is how long the pellets have been exposed, and whether there might be degradation if, say, they've been open and sitting on the retailer's shelves for months. If there's potential for them to have lost potency, I would probably rather...

I recently purchased 3 pounds of pellet hops from an online retailer, whom I'll leave unnamed for now. Two of the vacuum sealed bags were securely sealed and hard as rocks - great! But the third seems to have developed a leak sometime before it arrived on my doorstep. It's lost its vacuum and...

To me, this also seems to imply that if you're going for a specific mash temperature for body/fermentability reasons, we'd better hit that temperature immediately on strike. Say we're targeting 150F but actually hit 154F. The alpha amylase is going to do it's work very quickly, and there'll be...

I'm just not a fan of sweet drinks in general (except horchata!), so I stay away from fruit beers. Never really cared for anything spiced either. But for the longest time I always hated even the idea of putting that stuff in beer. I've put some thought into it, and I think I figured it out...

This story (not a quote so much) always reminds me to keep humble and keep learning. (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Casals#Legacy)

Just wanted to throw this out there. Not sure if the same applies to brewing, but my understanding is that truly deionized water is considered unsafe to drink by some experts. http://puretecwater.com/safe-to-drink-deionized-water.html Beyond that, I'm wondering if it's even worthwhile to...

Edit: Gah, replied to the wrong thread. Another edit to add: This actually happened to me recently, very much like you describe. I bottled a clone of a well-known IPA, tasted fabulous going into the bottles, but after 2 weeks of carbing tasted like a hefe, very yeasty. I thought I had...

Count me in.

In.

Recently bottled a Gumballhead clone, and it tasted and smelled fantastic going into the bottles. After 3 weeks of carbing at about 67F, all the aroma was gone and I swear it tasted like a saison or a really yeasty/funky wheat. Another two weeks and it's only gotten worse, and is borderline...

Thanks. :)

Those look cool. In!

Gah, I see that now. Thanks for the replies. My next hairbrained plan is to find someone giving away a hot tub on Craigslist and offer to dismantle it in exchange for the GFCI breaker it's attached to. Might be getting in over my head, but it'd be "free." ;)

I'm preparing to go electric, and my first project will be to get GFCI protected on a 50A circuit I've already got run to the garage. Would something like this work? http://www.homedepot.com/p/GE-60-Amp-240-Volt-Non-Fuse-AC-Disconnect-with-GFCI-Receptacle-TFN60RGFRCP/202276201 Says it's...

...aaaaand now I have to try rabbit.

I'm also having rabbit trouble, but only with a single individual. Little bastard is eating my balloon flowers! Unfortunately the wife won't let me put up an ugly fence around all the delicate flowers. I borrowed a BB gun from a neighbor, but only managed to make him look like he cut...

Very cool giveaway!

Long live the bag! :mug: