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Ah I see you mentioned the old Blue Rhino. I would probably get those refilled elsewhere. From the Blue Rhino website.

They are not... They are between 15 and 17 lbs depending on the retailer. If you dig enough, it is in the literature for most of them. Safety concerns and all ;) BTW, if you want to know how much is in a tank, you could always just throw one on the old bathroom scale, and subtract the...

There was actually a study on this as well....

Oh come on, can't we drag this to the debate forum? Or is there already a thread on this there already....

I just wanted to throw this out there, taken from cancer.gov

I fully agree. Fermentation temperature control led to the single largest improvement in my beer since I started. There are many ways to accomplish this, but you really should find one that works for you.

Quoted for truth. How is it that we ended up with 'science' that no longer follows the same scientific method people are taught in grade school (or at least used to be). Now we get Al Gore prancing around in front of some correlating charts, telling us he knows all of the answers. We get...

So after seeing that, you still opened the thread? :o

The nose stinging is kind of a common complaint, usually resulting from the CO2 produced. The saltiness is interesting however, it isn't possible that you forgot some PBW or oxyclean in the carboy before you filled it, is it?

Just out of curiousity, are you familiar with what simcoe normally tastes and smells like? Some people pick up strange notes from some hops that others don't smell (like cat pee in citra or dirt in EKG...or was it fuggles) Combine an unfamiliar hop aroma with really green beer, and it may be...

"As we must account for every sober evening, so must we account for every empty carboy." Barney Frank...wait I mean Ben Franklin

I totally agree. This reminds me of back in the day when land was registered under the Land Registry Act rather than the Land Titles Act. If people regularly crossed your land to access a place for a certain period of time unimpeded, you could actually lose the right to your own property...

I used a compression fitting in my wort chiller when I first built it, and all the heating, cooling and moving around caused it to loosen and seep water into the beer. This wouldn't be so bad on a municipal water supply, but I use raw lake water to cool. I don't think I got an infection but I...

If you read through the various threads on the topic, you will find that although heating the beer after fermentation will reduce the alcohol content, it is totally impossible to eliminate it all. You will hear from various people who obviously were not paying attention in high school science...

I'm going to give this a big +1 (even though there was that post about the +1 getting on someones nerves, please don't call the HOA!) Anything heavy and wet can really muck up a compost pile. I dig it right into my garden so the soil can soak up the moisture and it can break down in a more...

If its the yeast stopping thats the problem, then yes warming it up a bit would help and certainly doesn't hurt later in the fermentation. Is your fermenter sitting on the bare floor, or is it on a concrete surface that could be even cooler? If that's the case, elevating it onto something...

apparently you missed the ;) :p

I just noticed my typo...I should hope my peenie contains very little copper :D Of course too little zinc is a problem as well. Perhaps we should be sending all of our pennies to the third world.

You may want to ensure that those pennies are pre 1982, as was mentioned peenies contain very little copper these days. I ripped this off from wikipedia. Now i'm not suggesting that you are going to throw 450 pennies in the boil, but if you start to suffer 'lethargy and ataxia (gross lack...

I use a bench capper, but based on my understanding of how wing cappers work I think that they should be just fine. I don't know that for a fact though, I have never used one.