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If you aren't going to sanitize the caps, why the fuss about sanitizing the bottles? I don't put my other equipment into a litter box so why should I sanitize any of it?

I always see people recommending attaching a tube to a 3 piece airlock but there is no reason for it. All you are doing is increases your chances of a clog. Stick the tube right into the hole you would put the airlock in.

It's pretty obvious now that mat is just trolling.

As an American citizen I have the right to bitch about what ever I want :mug:

The fact that they are only taking a little bit at a time does not change the fact that they shouldn't be taking it in the first place. All that does is fool people like you into not caring about it. It does add up. Beer tax is what we are talking about here. To backtrack and claim you...

Why should my portion of the debt be determined by the amount of beer that I drink?

You're right. You can't list everything tax pays for. I do ask that you list what expenses for which it makes sense to specifically require beer drinkers to pay for.

Sorry if I'm being too picky, but 7.0 pounds or 7.2 pounds like Revvy suggested?

Why distilled?

In the recipe in the first post you mention 4 lbs DME and 4 lbs LME. You mention you substituted all with DME. Did you use 8 lbs DME or did you use less to compensate for the LME -> DME substitution?

Either I missed it or this never got answered.

You can make a starter with however many cells you want. You can do this with dry or liquid yeast.

Please explain.

I think maybe I'll do this but instead of pouring it back in, if I get enough of it I'll bottle it separate and see how it differs. Or maybe I'll just use fermcap. I knew about that stuff but I forgot about it's usefulness in the fermenter.

Of course there is always a chance. I just don't see how that chance would be significantly greater if I did this.

Where would the infection come from? The way I see it is the whole apparatus would be one big container.

Both of these options have their own drawbacks, mainly cost. I just started using a couple 6 gallon better bottles because I'd like to be able to see what is going on in there. I'm not about to abandon them or use both on a single batch. I'd like to know what you think of my idea now that you...

What would you be risking and why?

With the added airlock you would not need any sanitizing solution in the blowoff container. I suppose I should have made this clear.

I was pouring about half a gallon of blowoff down the drain when I had a thought. Why not save the blowoff and pour it back into the fermenter once activity dies down? It would be pretty easy to do. Use a stopper with two holes in your blowoff container. One hole is the blowoff tube from the...