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TL;DR: I'm wondering why a recipe might suggest starting with less-than-I'd-a-guessed yeast and if there's any harm in starting with more. Now that y'all so kindly explained why it's not a great idea to try to jump-start your brew with too little yeast [Splain To Me...], I get to my next...

All excellent stuff, thanks! I knew about aerobic vs anaerobic, and about the "race for control" (more yeast to beat-out bad bacteria for space/food), but reminders are always good. Someone else might come along and find this thread who doesn't know that stuff. Two seemingly contradictory...

Like the title says, I'd like someone to 'Splain yeast quantities to me. WAIT! Not yet! ;) I understand about cell counts. I understand about wanting a healthy culture that will grow & chew away your sugars pooping-out delicious alcohol. I get that we want the yeast to out-grow any tiny...

Ok, thanks all. I will try not to fear the foam, though it just bugs me. I guess I'll just have to get over myself. :) Also: I know "sanitize" from "sterilize" from "clean" -- thanks for the reminders, though; maybe it'll help the next person.

When I first got started (oh, that 1 batch ago! ;) ), it seemed that starsan was a very popular sanitizing product, so that's what I grabbed off the shelf. It seems to do the job but, after rinsing enough tubing and bottles, it seems to me that starsan is very foamy, and the bubbles can get...

I've seen Fermcap (or related products) suggested as a godsend for preventing foam-over. I'm curious if it has any impact on carbonation. That is, will my final-result beer see any change in "foaminess", or does it somehow "magically" know to only reduce the Kraussen. That's my #1...

Thanks. While I'm currently in the homebrew category, my interest is in the planning to micro-brewery vein. As you say, if it's $1.25 for one and $1.60 for the other -- who cares?! :D

Auburntsts -- yeah, I agree that, if it's just an open burner under a flat-bottomed pot, you're going to lose a ton of heat. You can probably double efficiency just by putting a collar around the edge to keep the heat in. I guess I'm thinking along the lines of: Let's compare best-case (most...

Hey Lumpy! Was disappointed to not-see your follow up. Scientists the world over want to know! (If, for no other reason, that to guide the desirability of trying to replicate your experiments :) ) Thanks!

Ok, I get the message, but now you've got me wondering about the science of it all. (Yes, yes -- I see the big, bold, all-caps, red letters; that's not science! :) ) What is it about a growler that makes it "not a pressure vessel" that is different from a 12oz bottle that IS a "pressure...

And now, having said all that, I just found this link which gives examples of a typical water-heater (propane) at 60% or (electric) at 90% http://homeguides.sfgate.com/propane-vs-electric-water-heater-operation-costs-97798.html Their examples show propane at about 2x what we're paying nearby...

The way PG&E works, our electricity is ~$.18 (almost double yours) but, and this is important, only if I stay below the average of what I used last year*. If I start doing electric brewing, I go up to $.30 and, if I do a lot of electric brewing (say I set up a nano-brewery or some such), it...

Very generous, but I'm all set, now. Got 1 of each size so i can experiment (they were too cheap not to -- it costs more to drive back to make the correction! :) ) Thanks! (I'll add a note here when I get around to my 1st bottling, or maybe add to the super-long sticky about it, if I come...

Ok, I found Q1 -- my ad-blocker was blocking search. D'oh! Whitelisted site, now search works. Now I'm looking through old threads for wand info.

2 Qs: Q1) Forum search doesn't appear to work for me -- I always get 0 results. I started searching "bottling wand" (my Q2), then "wand", then "bottling", then "keg", then "beer" -- always 0 results. I'm pretty sure that's not right. Is there some "you must be this tall in order to use...

Ok, thanks for all the info. I'm getting the impression from y'all's answers that (a) time and (b) visual clarity are the big signals. Before all of that -- back when I was asking the question -- I had a vague notion that maybe there was some "protein measurement" or some other thing that we...

1-batch n00b here. The recipes that I'm looking at all say "...then let condition for x-y weeks" (2-3 seems common). This question is not about whether 2 or 3 or some other number is the right amount of weeks! :) What I'm more curious about is the various visual (or other physically...

Hello all. I registered with a n00b (1st batch) Q that, while I was waiting, was answered by friends, so never got around to asking here. Decided I should post something so y'all know I'm not a robot. I'm not a robot :) Doing 2nd read of HowToBrew.com, have 1 batch of by-the-book...