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The Homebrewer's Garden by Fisher & Fisher has a section on various herbs you can use.

What I do is collect extra running's in a container and if needed (boil off or over) add that.

Adding the Notty wouldn't hurt but I doubt you'll kill the yeast. A sudden drop in temp might make them drop out of suspension though, so you may need to shake them up. If the beer freezes you biggest worry is the fermentor breaking. If once defrosted (no point leaving it frozen for 3 weeks :D)...

You might see the odd bubble or two, but not much as most is dissolved into the brew.

Yeah that's pretty much what I tried, I'll try to keep them height difference down a bit in future and see if that helps though. :mug:

I think you'd just need to start off with a smaller starter and take a couple of days then put that in a larger starter.

I got a CO2 tank that's got a dip tube in it to fill paint ball guns, does that need to be removed before I fill it or is that fine?

Really? Where do you turn them in and what do you get for them?

Well even if you half fill your slant there's still going to be 15mL of air in there, and given the small amount of cells that'd go a long way. Also as the yeast make CO2 a small amount of pressure will build pushing air out, not sucking it in. The other thought I had was maybe tin foil with...

Wouldn't the pressure cooker sterilize them? I saw those stoppers, the thing that crossed my mind was would they be ok with the heat of the cooker? Yeah I'll probably get some of those next time I place an order.

I didn't notice any rough spots, but I'll take a closer look tomorrow. No I had them together, I didn't really think about it causing problems, thanks for the tip.

It'd be a pain, but you could bring it back up to a boil again to kill any germs...

What about using a prechiller?

Yeah it's defiantly coming in at the rubber washer, if you pump it hard if fills up inside. I've done about 10 batches with it so ~20 uses. There's no brand on it that I can see, it came with a starter kit. If all else fails I'll just buy a new one....

Does anyone have any tricks to fix a leaking auto siphon? I tried a bit of keg lube, but it didn't seem to help much. It's leaking at the rubber stopper inside the main tube (air's getting sucked in).

If you try wood I'd recommend buying some fireproof paint. If you don't want to weld you could bolt it together.

I ordered some petri dishes last night and the site had test tubes on sale for dirt cheep so I ordered some to use as slants. The only problem is they don't have stoppers. I was thinking I could probably find some cheap cork ones, but would that work? Any other ideas?

Damn I want one of those Arrowhead carboys! Very cool find, thanks for sharing.

That's funny I just received this today as a belated b'day pressy; A had a really nice badger brewery beer glass too but it broke :(

OK thanks! I didn't want any surprises when I hooked it all up :D