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Yeah I had ordered mine last sunday, but I hadn't received them in a little over a week and the tracking number still just said billing information received, so I emailed them and they say they ran out of a stock, but will get them back in on the 10th and ship them soon after. So anyone else...

Damn you're lucky. My wife absolutely loathes the brewery smell. Got to be her least favorite smell in the world. Dagger! You could always brew more when you want to smell that smell :D:rockin:

I ended up going to myLHBS this past weekend as I needed a couple things and it was too conveniently located. Based on what I'd heard, it was bigger than I expected, but definitely not huge or even big by any means - about the size of a large bedroom or so. It was packed with customers (at...

Thanks for the input guys! I actually didn't get a chance this weekend to brew the batch that would have used this starter. I did end up buying some wyeast 1056 at the LHBS since I was there anyway. The original starter was the WLP001 that the recipe called for, but since I have the 1056...

That makes perfect sense, Yooper. So I guess my real question then, is at what point does a change in the IBU/SG ratio become noticeable in taste (for most people)? What I'm really getting at, is when I'm trying to follow a recipe, and I'm looking at gravities (pre and post boil), I want to...

So if you are following a recipe, the most important things are malt ratio and hop schedule? How much leeway is there on OG/FG before it is a clear deviation from the recipe (strictly in terms of taste)?

I'm curious.. what is the minimum number of OG points you can actually taste? For example, all things being the same (hops, etc), how much difference in final taste would hitting 1.057 instead of 1.053 make? Barely noticeable, or pretty significant?

I tried to make my first starter Thursday night. I used the mrmalty calculator to determine that I needed a 3 liter starter with intermittent shaking. I used a gallon milk jug (cleaned and sanitized), but I didn't have any aluminum foil, so I used a coffee filter with a rubber band, figuring...

I almost bought this same one, because I liked the display better and I know it's stupid, but having the reference of "doneness" of different meats/etc printed right on it is pretty convenient. This was all assuming that the primary function, near instant temperature reading, worked as well as...

I've never been mildly interested in anything star trek related, but I did really enjoy the new movie. Can't wait for the next one.

As a new brewer still, I thought people wanted clear fermentation vessels to observe the fermentation process, see the krausen form, see the trub at the bottom, etc, which only clear vessels allow. Of course this comes with the risk of light exposure, so you just cover them up when not looking...

$150 wouldn't be bad based on the $9.99/bottle we pay here! I second the mad elf suggestion though, good choice especially this time of year.

This of course doesn't apply to everyone, but I'm really digging brew pal on iphone (I think for any iOS device). It's full featured (once you find the secret settings page for each tab, by clicking the gear in the upper right) and always in my pocket, so I always have my recipes and info with...

Been a week and a half since bottling. I know it's too early, but being my first beer, I'm sampling it along the way just for my own knowledge. For anyone who is wondering... Tried a couple on thanksgiving, 6 days after bottling. Carb was light but coming along. The vanilla was very...

Does this apply even to "new" "drugs" that are merely a combination of already existing drugs, just packaged differently and/or together? Like adding sudafed to robitussin, or maybe airborne or something (I'm not a pharmacist so I don't know for sure if those are great examples, but there has...

So it sounds like even if this did "work" to cool the wort, you would lose a ton of it to steam.

We keep mentioning coca-cola, and their recipe being a trade secret instead of patented. So if a cola company stumbled upon a coke recipe so close as to be indistinguishable from the original, and sold it for less (or the same/more, whatever), would it be punishable? Is it illegal to keep...

Maybe I'm not thinking about this right, but wouldn't decreasing the pressure in the vessel make the hot wort (just under 212F) boil at lower and lower temperatures (as you increase vacuum), which would make a more and more violent boil inside, producing a ton of steam, which, without a way to...

Wait are myLHBS and jaysbrewing related via this same guy or something? I had considered visiting myLHBS as it's only 25 min or so from me, but read some iffy reviews on google, and this just affirms what I saw there. I may still someday run over there if I need something ASAP on brew day...

I'm too new to draw on a lot of experience but my first batch was granted a big 1.086 beer, but with us-05 in 66F ambient, the strip (confirmed by IR) got to 74F when it was really going before I put it in the swamp cooler and I just don't want that happening again. I just want more control and...