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at party I just poured my Brown ale in a glass with a nice 1 inch head on it... friend: Wow, terrible pour man (friend proceeds to rub oil off his nose and stick his finger in his drink to reduce the foam in his red plastic cup of bud lite) me: you're an idiot

The head brewer at the local microbrewery told me that he is currently on the 26th generation of yeast, and I do believe they make great beer www.paddockwood.com

i recommend listening to this episode of brew strong on yeast starters... they do talk about your exact question i believe... http://thebrewingnetwork.com/shows/Brew-Strong/Brew-Strong-12-22-08-Yeast-Starters ... but long story short... no don't use priming sugar/corn sugar/dextrose

yeah a good seal is not required... I cant even get airtight buckets with an airlock here... just a bucket with a decently tight lid

i disagree that coopers is "neutral" ... when i first started i used coopers a lot because thats what the kits came with... they all had the same "off flavor", i changed the yeast and the flavor was instantly gone. In my opinion coopers yeast has a very obvious taste (one that I believe doesnt...

Revvy thanks for answering... I suppose I didn't realize that the blanket of CO2 will easily sit on top of the beer for a good month as long as it is not opened, I figured that since it will never be perfectly still inside that some would leak out even though the CO2 is heavier than air. Does...

yes it just a bucket with a lid... and i've considered just drilling a hole and throwing an airlock in, but that would be pointless since the bucket would not be any closer to being airtight around the seal anyways... so to bump my own post, does not having an airtight fermenter with an...

I would like to hear revvy comment on long primaries where a non-airtight bucket (with no airlock) is used... does this change anything? they don't sell primaries with airlocks at any of the local home brew stores

coopers yeast is terrible in my opinion, when i did my first few kits (all with coopers yeast) i thought it was impossible to make good homebrew, as soon as i got away from it the sun came up

year to date: 48 gal 15405.5 + 48 = 15453.5

agreed, I'm not buying the different buzzes at all. I always hated when friends would say something like "drinking whiskey makes me crazy" or "whenever i drink whiskey i want to fight" ... such differences in buzzes do not exist

so in your expertise would you say that drinking different kinds of booze will lead to "significantly" (ie. easily noticeable/observable) differences in 'buzz'. And when i say different i mean it not in the sense of more or less drunk but as in a different form of buzz, which is what I believe...

Hmm while all this talk is interesting, I believe even though there are different variables involved when drinking different kinds of alcoholic beverages, all this "all my friends agree with me" type statement is absolute rubbish (along with a lot of the other anecdotal evidence given in this...

if it swelled up im pretty sure the pack inside had to break open, sometimes there are two separate little pouches inside... you likely broke one but not the other, it has happened to me before

+1... yes and for those who don't know electromagnetic radiation is just light, yes the same stuff that comes out of your light bulbs, just at a much longer (and therefore holding less energy) wavelenth.

hey I'm from Canada and just flew into palm springs last night for holidays, now i want beer... where do I go to get some good beer, especially beer that is not available in Canada... things I know i would like to try include dogfish head, sierra nevada, stone brewing... where are these sold...

yeah sorta but it is all white bubbles, not "orangy" like in that picture. keep in mind that cell phone picture was just in the center of the carboy and those big bubbles are spread throughout it

Doesn't look like that, has a skin covering the entire top, and the hydrometer sample tastes slightly sour, but maybe that taste is a little in my head because it just looks so disgusting... anyways can someone name these infections?

Canada champ... But like I said, my picture is bad, there are large (3 inches diameter) white bubbles protruding out of the wort, it is definitely infected... OG was 1.042, after 26 days it was 1.030 and done... I know it was bad DME because the amylase enzymes worked perfectly for an...

this is not mine, but since my picture looks so bad, i can say that mine looks almost the same as this