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Do it. Pretty obvious the YouTube video is fake (do you really think he'd take the time to change the camera angles as he was running to throw up?) If it's totally gross I want to know though...

Thanks for this! I swung by there (Brew & Grow) Saturday and this place is fantastic. I talked with the head brewing guy a while and he is really friendly and knowledgeable. I was also brewing that day and it turned out NB had shipped me 2lbs of my base malt (instead of the 12lb I ordered) so...

Brewing Deschute's Obsidian Stout clone tomorrow - 6 Gallon batch.

I didn't even know there was a HBS in Aurora; I'll have to hit it up this weekend. I'm in Bolingbrook and was going to Two Brothers when I first started brewing. Like others, I found it kinda sucks - they have weird hours, not much of a grain selection, and I was always having to substitute...

Well I stand corrected. Good info. Not that I would ever try pitching a single cell, but I've had good luck with the smack packs without ever making a starter.

It's both. The smack pack just contains yeast nutrient. I have never had to make a starter with a Wyeast smack pack, and probably never will. I've used White Labs too, and it worked out fine; guess I just prefer Wyeast. I think people make too big of a deal about yeast (starters really) in...