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9.3 lbs LME plus around 1/2lb of 'specialty grain' -- whatever midwest included in their octane IPA kit. According to your calculations that's around 1.068 just from the LME, around 1.070 if I assume 60ish% soluble sugar by weight from the grain.

Nothing was particularly wrong with the sack, it was just the flimsiest thing I've ever seen, and barely fit the specialty grains it was supposed to. A little foresight and we should have realized that that siphon starter is meant to be used with an immersion chiller, but I rather enjoy ragging...

http://rockinkhole.blogspot.com/ has the full story, but here's the cliffsnotes: Brew day today Made IPA, minimash Some difficulties arose Fermenting as we speak OG: 1.065 (I have doubts as to how correct this is)

Thanks fellas

It seems that northernbrewer.com wants a ridiculous sum of money to ship to Canada, plus UPS wants $30 for brokerage, and it's going to take a long time because of customs which will kill the yeast (so they say). Where do all you Canadians get your ingredients from?

So we talked to this "brewer" at a local shop, and he had all these concerns about exploding bottles and was basically saying that using glass would be very dangerous especially when putting sugar into each bottle. My question is, how often do bottles explode, and what concerns/precautions...

Ok so we want to start brewing beer. The thing is, we don't know what we're doing. We were thinking extract brewing (is this just diluting the extract and then adding yeast/fermenting???) or some kind of brewing that involves boiling/cooking but not any kind of malting/kiln/germinating/that...

Can someone explain to me what a blow off cap is? Is it the same as a blowoff tube? thanks.

Canadian right here... from Guelph the home of Sleeman and Wellington. This is definitely my 2nd post and I'm looking to get into home brewing.

Yeah even white vinegar is around pH 3, but I'm still not worried about aluminum, thanks to you + everyone else's reassurance. Also just so y'all know I'm going to get into homebrewing and I'm checking out all the things I'll need to get started. I want to use a turkey fryer as a boiler...