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All my slants are white/creamy looking, as are my plates after growth occurs. I'd be slightly skeptical of 'fuzzy' yeast.. Here's an example of one of my WLP001 slants.

I couldn't find the slants on white labs page (granted I didn't look extremely hard) but my guess is at that price they're single use disposable slants. Plates aren't the best choice for long term storage, but if you were going to get the equipment within a few weeks, to a month they could...

If you get Brew Your Own magazine, scan the back issues. They sometimes have a coupon code in there for 10% off. It won't save you a ton, but will help offset the cost of adding in the TC fittings you'll need. Also don't forget, you'll have to build yourself a CIP system as the lid doesn't...

Morebeer does, but I don't really consider them to be reasonably priced. http://morebeer.com/view_product/19903//Slants_-_Malt_Agar_Filled For the price of 10 of them you could easily buy 12-24 autoclavable vials from cynmar as well as the agar from amazon, and maybe even a pressure cooker.

I don't think I'd ever do that, unless I was under a laminar flow hood, and even then probably still not. if they're within the updraft they're probably fine, but why take the chance? I have plates of bottle harvested Pacman going, once those are done I'm going to attempt to plate out some...

That's what I went with, but if your total budget is $1k they're likely not the best choice as they don't come with any of the TC Fittings. I ordered what I wanted for TC fittings without trying to be thrifty and came in at $450. Even if you got it down to half of that, you're going to be...

I ended up order a brewhemoth with all the bells and whistles. Just waiting on a few more parts to come in and I'll be ready for it's virgin batch. Ironically I think I'm only a few bucks short into this product of what you offered me your 14gal B3 for :drunk:

You and I never traded a Cantillion Iris ;) We traded that Beatification amongst other things. I have another Beatification I could have my arm twisted for, but all other RR sours while very tasty are their standard rotation. I can look for other sours when I'm at the bottle shop next, I...

That looks fantastic. Can you ask your wife to rub some of her saintliness off on my wife please? :drunk: Does a move up to a 50gal system indicate an intention to go Nano? :D

Ha, that was fast.. lbs of Amarillo gone already

That's a nice lookin boxer. If my wife got her druthers we'd have at least one, maybe two of them, I'm personally holding out for a Malinois but it'll be interesting to see who wins that one :D

Argh, my friend was supposed to get me some Bolt Cutter and wasn't able to, how many bottles do you have? I can get RR stuff, including their sours, SN 2012 Narwhal, Firestone Walker 16th etc.

Today is was the teller at my credit union. I highly desired to shake some common sense into her. I seem to only have these problems with the newer tellers, and the ones who know me are always great. I hand her $250 cash and a single check and tell her I want to deposit it into my second...

I've always followed the ratio in the OP. 400ml water, 35g DME, 2.5g Agar. Today I went to make up some more plates, as I plan on trying to harvest from the can's of Heady Topper I just got my hands on. I've always been annoyed by the break material that ends up in my slants/plates so I...

I used the ebay pump linked by cfrazier77 a few pages back. Honestly though, if I had to do it again, I'd probably go snag one of the 1hp dirty water sump pumps from Harbor freight and snag their $9 warranty on it. Hrm, I used approximately 1 level scoop per gal. My Oxyclean is the brand...

Hooked up and tested my CIP system for the first time today.. I definitely cannot use oxyclean in this.. way too much foaming :drunk: Guess I'm going to have to go get some PBW. The Hemoth didn't come with any documentation or care info.. do I need to do anything to passivate the stainless...

Unless they both happened to be named Jose, I'm giving it to the stammering guy in the HD Apron who's nametag said.... you guessed it.. Jose.

demi johns would be a good option if you can find them reasonably enough. They're short & squatish and approximately 15gal which would leave enough head space to primary ferment 10-11g batches no problem. Of course if you want to go full bling, conical fermenters are another option with many...

I was trying to get a buddy to go with me tomorrow midday, but he's going to be in Reno with his wife. I'm still debating going, though I don't much care to drink alone. Any HBT'rs going in the few days?

I've always found Craigslist to be much more hassle than it's worth. Sure I've snagged a few good deals from sellers there, but it's always been such a headache, or urgent 'get there first before anyone else buys it' that in the long run the stress involved really isn't worth it. Not one...