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I've just recently discovered the world of brewing podcasts and am totally addicted right now. I've going through all the archives of Basic Brewing Radio and a couple others. I'll definitely have to check this one out as well.

I'd love to know.

Any recommendation of which malt to use? More of the same?

So when you add LME to a recipe in Beer Alchemy it only gives you the options of "in mash/steeped", "start of boil", and "end of boil". What if I like to add part of my extract at the start of the boil and the rest about half way into the boil? Which option would I choose for the second half of...

I've also been doing some research on culturing yeast from a commercial beer. I live in michigan, only about 15 min from Founders (worlds best brewery:rockin:) where I'm sure I could get a great sample to culture from. Any thoughts on this? I plan to brew next friday so I think that would give...

I wish I could use my tap water but I have a well and from what I understand it has very high level of iron. We have a water softener but I'm told that is no good for brewing. I don't mind buying spring water if that is my best option but the bulk RO water at the grocery store would save me...

I have a Brewers Best kit for an American Pale Ale. This will probably be my 5th or 6th time brewing. I've done kits in the past and a couple extract recipes from my LHBS. Anyway, I want to know if anyone has any suggestions on how to make this the best beer possible. I assume that because this...

In the first part of this podcast, John Palmer talks about using an aluminum pot and the build up of the oxide layer on aluminum. http://www.basicbrewing.com/radio/mp3/bbr01-19-06.mp3

Sorry I forgot that. The guy I got the recipe from said to "make sure to use WLP051 (California V Ale)" but I couldn't find it so I used Safale 05.

Ok, I dug up the recipes I've tried. I personally like #1 the best but #3 is probably the closest to the real thing. Two Hearted Clone Recipe 1 Golden Light DME-7.2 lbs Cara-pils .5 lbs C-20 .5 lbs Centennial .5oz 60 mins Centennial .5oz 45 mins Centennial .5oz 30 mins Centennial .5oz 15 mins...

I agree, I've tried to clone both the Bell's Two Hearted and the Founders Centenial IPA, my two all time favorite beers that can be bought in a bottle. Both are almost identical except for the slightly more grapefruit character in the Two hearted which I believe comes from the Cascade. I also...

When I said "dirt", I was referring to the brown tarnish.

Northern brewer is similar to chinook. I would think the two would go together fine. Cascade is also good in an IPA. I find this chart from my LHBS very helpful. http://www.sicilianosmkt.com/beer/hop_chart.pdf

I checked out a few books on Google Books about metallurgy and one said that the oxide layer reforms instantly. I'd call that Myth Busted...

So if you put a dirty looking wart chiller in your wart and when you take it out it looks clean wouldn't that mean all that "dirt" is now in your beer?

If that is true, then that is by far the most convincing argument yet. In all of the previous threads on this topic that I had read on HBT, I hadn't seen a comment from an expert (metallurgist) on the topic.

I'm not talking about doing it every time. I bought my pot off craigs list and it was pretty nasty when I got it. I was actually just trying to make it easier to clean in the future by buffing out a nice shiny finish.

Yes. Assuming that the scientists were the expert on the topic, and that they were giving me the best advice they could, based on what they knew. Then yes, I probably would take their advice. Now of course you are giving an outrageous example and I wouldn't expect a scientist to actually say that.

I would think cooking a large pot of chili or something like that would be pretty acidic.

I absolutely agree, and do trust most of the advice I've gotten from this board. But technically what we are talking about here is not really brewing. It's the cleaning and care of an aluminum pot. And maybe there are other people out there who know more about that than we do.