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I'm probably wrong here, but wouldn't you want to ferment at the very low end of the temperature range so that the yeast would give up after awhile? This question is purely for my own curiousity:]

so I just completely missed that? man, I feel dumb. edit: real dumb :p

Has anyone tried using yeast nutrient just to give it a little bump?

So the founder of my local homebrew league just informed me that if a recipe says to ferment at 67 degrees (F), you're actually supposed to put it in a room that's around 60 degrees (F), since fermentation itself actually produces 7-8 degrees (F)heat. Needless to say, I have not been doing...

When I was a newbie (not that i'm still not a newbie, just slightly less newbish) I spent $90 on a Ruination IPA clone. It was mostly the LHBS I bought it from. Lesson: Learned.

Good idea, always cool to see someone trying something new, but I would put more than 2# in it. Go for maybe 5-6?

Gah, I should have searched for this topic before making a thread. Will take that into consideration in the future. Thanks a lot for the quick (and detailed) replies guys, I'm extremely appreciative! :D

...right into my freshly pitched wort. It sunk to the bottom. I'm praying for no infection, I don't really have any other choice, don't think I should fish it out of there. Anyway now I need something to make it airtight before the fermentation picks up! In case you don't know, it's a black...

So I had some yeast left over, and (stupidly) poured it into my yeast starter before cooling the wort. Realized my mistake AS i was doing this, just wasn't paying attention. R.I.P. my yeast. Anyway, the only yeast I have access to at this point is the WLP yeast that comes in vials. And I...

ah! didn't see he was using aluminum. good catch :p

i think someone recently made a thread in the drunken ramblings forum where they'd gone through the last week's worth of posts in the forums and found every case where something went wrong because the brewer was inebriated. it was pretty damn funny. also i don't see how any of those factors...

great to hear man! i'm still nervous about any competitions, i'm gonna start by showing a brew or two to my local club before i go competition-crazy. congrats on the wins:]

oxyclean oxyclean oxyclean oxyclean oxyclean oxyclean oxyclean :p or you could always go the route of Jones Soda. i've read that certain amino acids being combined with maltose is able to produce odd flavors such as beef broth, baked ham, stale potato, and horseradish. you could have a full...

only if you boil, as to my understanding. i just brewed up a wheat, and after a lot of research, have decided to use 7.5# pasteurized frozen/crushed strawberries in my secondary to achieve a medium strawberry taste. as far as i know, with strawberries, rule of thumb is 5# for a light...

gonna +1 that. you should have used the opportunity to have a very :tank:'ed night but yeah those, bottles are fine. did you at least give it a few good tastes to see how it turned out??? blah at this point i don't think i'd have the money to dump a batch even if i wanted to. without...

i just brewed up the wheat beer for my strawberry wheat. gonna add 7.5 pounds of pasteurized strawberries into the secondary. it's my first attempt at a fruit beer, but i read up on it pretty well.

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Okay so I just added my priming sugar to the bottling bucket, then racked off my beer into said bucket... ...and i just remembered my bottling equipment is at MY house, a half hour away. I can come back and do it in 24 hours, but will that be all right? Is it gonna blow? Should I have a...

This. Actually, I flick the part of the hose where the air is. A few flicks almost always does the trick, but i'm sure pinching would work too.

at first i thought you were putting Dale's into the same category as BMC, thought we were gonna have to throw down :P