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I haven't been down there yet but have been trying to find time to go down there and try it out. Since I moved to the north Burbs I haven't done squat in the city =( Sad day when I became a 'suburbanite'...

It's sad, but after a peck on the cheek from the SWMBO the first place I go is to the brew closet to say 'hi' to the boys, ask how their day was, how's the fermentation going, anything good on TV tonight... etc... My therapist said that it's totally normal, maybe it's because I give him...

I think that the best thing that I did about it was to educate her about the brewing process and how everything ties together. The SWMBO is far from being a science geek, and the beer that she normally drinks is, well, crap in my book. Over the past few months, I've been trying to educate...

Great, thanks for the info, dunno how I missed that thread... I think I'll just stick with a cheap instant read until I get a better MLT with built-in's ;-)

Well, I guess I've learned my lesson on crappy digital thermometers... Was at Williams Sonoma with the SWMBO a few weeks ago and decided to pick up a nice digital probe thermometer, $40 out of pocket. The first time I used it was actually my first AG batch, been doing extract for a couple...

I'm having the same problem with Notty right now. This is the second time I've used it, the first time was a few months back and I think it started in 18-24 hours. I've done two batches in the past two days, the first one has been about 28 hours since I pitched and still no activity...

Welcome, glad to have you around. I'm pretty new here myself, a few posts here and there, but mostly just taking in the vast amount of knowledge that is on here. Can spend years just going through everything that's on here and try to figure out what is what ;-)

Great, thanks for the info. I kept them in the same packaging and bound them up tight with a rubber band and threw them in a ziplock. I'll probably use them in the next week or two anyway, just wanted to see. Thanks for the help!

What do people do with extra half ounces of hops? I have a recipe that I'm working on right now that has 1/2 oz of Warrior and 1 1/2 oz of Liberty, so now I am stuck with extra half ounces. Is it safe to tie these up and freeze them without vacuum sealing them? If so, how long would they be...

I dry hopped for the first time, and have a couple of questions. First, I fermented in the primary for 8 days, fermentation was done after about 5 days, I added the hop pellets to the secondary and racked on top of that. It has been in the secondary for 7 days. Normally without dry hopping...

Thanks for the info, probably going to fire it up this afternoon and do my first AG, then another tomorrow. My buddy is coming in from CT and wanted to do a batch.

Don't know if this is the best place for the question, but since it's DIY, figured it would fit in. I'm still somewhat new to brewing, been doing extracts for about two years now, about 10 batches total, but now stepping into my first AG batches tomorrow. I followed FlyGuy's 10 gal MLT and...

Ya, this will be the most I've had in a while... Bottled the English IPA yesterday, the American in two weeks and brewed the porter yesterday, which is happily bubbling ecstatically right now =) If anybody wants any of my beer though, they have to come get it! I'm going to try to start...

It's been a busy few weeks actually... Did an English IPA two weeks ago, still in the primary, will bottle next week more than likely, and then an American IPA last weekend. This week... Pacific Porter. Had some of it at a local brewshop a few weeks ago and it was really really good, going...

I was chatting with a friend of mine yesterday and he told me about this site, which I hadn't seen before, what a great suggestion on his part! (Probably the only good suggestion he's ever given!) So far I've found a wealth of information on here, I've been homebrewing for about a year and a...