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Im not confused I do understand the difference between a starter and rehidrating I guess we will agree to disagree and continue the way we are brewin as it seems we all are doing somethings different as long as it all makes good beer it doesnt matter

If it's not showing signs of life (churning, foaming) after a half hour, your yeast may be too old or dead. Unfortunately, this can be a common problem with dry yeast packets, especially if they are the non-name brand packets taped to the top of malt extract beer kits. Using name brand brewers...

rehydrating is not to speed up fermentation it is to verify if the yeast is healthy so that there is no guessing it just cuts out one more issue that could be avoided

Are you thinking about a propane burner for your basement? Maybe I misunderstood your just trying to hide from the wife not kill her

no if using star san the bottles do not have to be dry and yes the caps do need to be sanitized and star san will do just fine good luck

24 hours isnt that long in the primary to be worried about active fermentation (assuming air lock activity) and it is early for you to start worrying about gravity readings your fermenter may have a leak (may not) I have had no air lock activity for a few days after I pitched this is normal...

Personally I would stick with the recipe and see if this amount of bittering flavor/aroma is what you like until you figure out what you want out of your beer you can than answer this question for yourself if you feel the hop schedule/quantity needs to be adjusted it is all a matter of your...

Yes you can if you are doing this in a keggle you can use multiple bags as well as depending on your heat source you can just heat to maintain your mash temp a little bit of creativity it can be done and use Deathbrewers all grain directions as a loose guideline (very good info)

Have you tried to move these bottles around some to resuspend the yeast give them a week and try another bottle this may help

Crappy Free beer is better than no beer!

Thanks appreciate the responses

Has anyone used campden tablets with their city water supply and how did this work out for you?