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FWIW... when I got home yesterday evening, I took it out of the cooler, and looked at it- it has some foam on top (not full krausen though), and smells like it's fermenting correctly, so I think I might be ok!

I put the tinfoil on the jug, and it's in the cooler at 65 right now... haven't looked at it today though. I'm hedging my bets though; got another jug, a more correctly sized stopper and another smack-pack of yeast for a parallel starter. I figure at worst, I have a good starter, and at...

I think I may just go slap some sanitized tin-foil on the top then!

This afternoon, I made myself a starter consisting of a gallon of 1.034 wort & one XL pack of the Wyeast 2782 Staro Pilsner yeast. In the process of trying to put the stopper in, I spazzed out and accidentally pushed the sanitized stopper all the way through the neck of my gallon jug. My...

All I know is that the Safbrew S-33 ale yeast ferments like crazy. I pitched 2 packets, and the beer started bubbling an hour afterward! It finished up about a day later, for the most part. It's not terribly flocculant though.

If you live in an area with lots of Mexicans, you should be able to find humongous tamale steamers (tamaleras) for almost nothing. The Fiesta grocery store near me has 52 qt tamaleras for $32 bucks.