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Would you two say it made a positive difference though?

Youre right i changed it to my primary.. I am doing a full boil in a 30 quart pot. Will whirlpooling be pointless if it is not a keggle. Also do you physically hold the auto siphon above the trub level or just set it against the side of the pot and let it touch bottom?

I am an extract brewer, is yeast nutrient important then or can I do with out. Say for an IPA recipe?

John Palmer states in how to brew that if you are doing an extract brew you should not use irish moss because it will affect the proteins needed for the yeast to do their thing.

Are you brewers a fan or not? It seems to me to just let nature do its thing but you all might know otherwise..

Hey borders is this the stuff?? http://www.austinhomebrew.com/product_info.php?cPath=178_56_36&products_id=2263 I ask because i have the same product, easy clean by ld carlson and it says that it is a sanitizer. I hope it is because i have been using it for my batches. Its the stuff...

Hey all, I have been using the dump through a strainer method of getting clean wort into my primary. I just got done reading the excellent FAQ about whirlpooling in the beginner section. Now I am curious. I am toying with switching to this method. I have one concern. With whirlpooling...

Hey all, I have a steemer and was thinking about using it to prepare my brew supplies. Has any one experiemented with this or know of any resources where I can read about it. Supposedly steam is one of the best ways to sterilize and it seems like it would also be easy to do. What are...

Thanks everyone for your respones!! I will try your methods next bottling day and hopefully it will help.

How can I prevent air bubbles from forming in my auto siphon. It bubbles where the cane meets the plastic hose. I have to force the hose on and then I clamp it on as well but it still gets an air bubble when racking it drives me nuts. Is a carboy cap a better solution?

Hi All, My wort chiller is set up for a garden hose, where can I get an adpater to use with my kitchen sink?? Any help is great!

I would personally use the 6.5 as my primary because it is good to have the krausen, it protects the beer, versus blowing everything off with a 5 gallon fermenter. I would then use a 5 gallon as my secondary because it leaves less airspace during clearing and would allow you to get rid of the...

Thanks Malkore, I was afraid that it would be hard to chill the wort outside. So i will just lug the pot into the kitchen and do everything in the sink. I will be looking into some software for the correct hops adjustment and will also start with more water because of evaporation...

Hi all, This is going to be a two part question. I am doing extract brews. First of all, i got a turkey fryer for xmas with a stainless 30 qt pot. Im pumped!! I was getting crappy boils out of my kitchen stove. My 1st question is this, is it better to do full boils now that I have the...

Still curious about those aluminum turkey fryer pots. Are they bad?

Thanks for the info and I do have a copy of Papazians book as well as Palmers. Do you use the aluminum pot that came with? I thought that was bad.

Thanks guys for all of your responses. I have been using extract kits from AHBS with specialty grains and mostly LME partial DME. I have used different yeasts and also obviously brewed different kits. I dont konw how to partial mash, all I have is a 22qt stock pot so I cant do full boils, my...

Why is it that my extract brews all taste pretty much the same??

I dont know, they taste good but are getting more bland I think than when they were first ready. I have never mixed my beer and priming solution other than syphoning the beer into the bottling bucket. Is something else neccesary?

So my last batch of beer came out very unevenly carbonated. Some beers are flat and some do nothing but fizz. Do you guys think that is an infection? It sounds like it may be according to "How to Brew". Could it possibly be an uneven distribution of the priming sugar though? I used...