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I love some spicy foods, however I've also found the limitations of my palate (and my GI tract) and found the level of spice I like. It's higher than a lot of people's but there's plenty of people who like their food hotter than I do... and that's ok. But there's a whole sub-group of people...

You have to ask yourself, is playing around with twist-off bottles and getting half-baked results really worth it in the long run. While I'd never advocate going out and spending hard-earned money needlessly, it's not that expensive to pick up some bottles. I've been picking up cases of 22oz...

You'll have a pipeline before you know it. Take the advice the folks here gave me almost 2 months ago - go get the next brew started.

Homebrewing, it's like having kids... minus the 18 years of bull****.

I've found BeerSmith to be handy, like the inventory feature, have used it as an extract brewer to make substitutions, and actually think the calendar feature is great. Sure, I could have just written on a calendar, but since I'm already in the program it's just sort of a value-added feature...

Isn't it a nice feeling seeing that pipeline right over the horizon? I've got batch number 1 all in the fridge now. Number two about a week out of being ready (I tried one last night - it was good). Three and Four a couple weeks behind it. 5, 6, 7 and 8 all currently fermenting. Mmmmm, beer.

Yeah, the carboy cap doesn't fit as tight on the better bottles as it does my glass carboy. So the pressure couldn't have gotten too out of control. (If it had, I would have expected the other pails there to catch some spray.) Could have been more of a mess. I'm not too concerned, that's why...

Last night around 23:00 when I last checked on this, it was foaming and bubbling happily away. This morning I arrived home full of fail... Oops. Blowoff Tube Fail! on Flickr - Photo Sharing! More Blowoff Tube Fail on Flickr - Photo Sharing! Blowoff Tube Fail! on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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I'm finally tasting one that went through the full process... 3 weeks in primary, 2.8 weeks in bottles, 3 days in the fridge to chill. Wow. Carbed up quite nicely. Much more so than the one I crashed in the freezer the other night. Also, the tastes mellowed out, much better than the green...

Welcome to the addiction, glad I'm not the only one who's gotten the bug. My first beer will have spent 3 weeks conditioning on Saturday. In the 6 weeks since I started that first beer, I've brewed every week. I think I might have gone a bit overboard getting my pipeline started.

Yooper's suggestion is what I do with my side-by-side fridge. I store anything being bottle conditioned on it's side in the fridge, but I also "reserved" one of the doors for beer where I can fit 8 bottles or so upright prior to drinking. After I take one from the door, I move one off the...

:off: The little Italian woman who owned this place before me kept a 2nd stove in the basement. When I moved in I had to gut the kitchen and the laundry room in the basement because everything was coated with years of olive oil and splashed tomato sauce. The kitchen hood was truly something to...

Brewers yeast is only going to ferment the simple sugars. Attenuation should be somewhere between ~60-80% for most beers. That is because the yeast can't consume the complex carbohydrates in your wort. If your reading really was 1.001 @ 70 degrees F, you don't have any of those complex carbs...

Thanks Revvy, I tired this on Tuesday night. I was boiling on the stove within about an inch of the brim and no problem. I actually got some other stuff done while the wort was boiling.

Thanks for gently nudging me that I'm off topic in the thread. :-) On topic: I've got a beer that hasn't bubbled now since day 4 as far as I can tell (currently on day 9 in primary)... Meanwhile the one next to it has been going crazy since about 48 hours after pitching. I'm not worried...

It wouldn't be such a surprise if more people weren't selling kits and telling the purchaser, "It's ok, you just wait until this stops bubbling for a couple of days, then you rack it..." I had thought about homebrewing for a while before I did it and read The Complete Joy of Homebrewing and...

... and welcome aboard from Cleveland.

Heh, twice this week I've grabbed a green bottle of beer. In the interest of science, right? :-)

Well, I wash my hands after going to the bathroom as it is socially the correct thing to do, but since I don't piss all over my hands I'd like to point out the following: 1) When I wake up in the morning I take a shower. 2) In the shower I wash my junk. 3) I then put on clean underwear 4)...