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I have a Wyeast 2278 smack pack that has a best if used by date of March 24. So I'm a little more than two months past. What's the likelihood it'll still be viable if I make a starter?

I’m a relative noob. I’m sure somebody has a good answer for you.

I don’t know if anyone else does this, but I use a 5-gallon painter’s mesh strainer that I clip to the rim of the Mash & Boil. You can buy those at the hardware store. I was getting a lot of debris in my fermenter so I started boiling the crushed grain in the strainer. It works pretty well and...

I feel your pain. I’ve been doing this for a little more than a year and I’m still struggling to hit my numbers. And something almost always goes wrong during the process. It’s frustrating but as a few of the posters have said, the beer still ends up tasting pretty good. And most of the time...

I wonder if dissolving the powder in some boiling water, letting it cool and then adding it to the fermenter would do the trick. Or would the extra water thin out the beer?

I can see now that that is indeed the hard way. But that's how you learn. Allegedly.

I think it might be more an issue of them getting clogged in the racking arm, to be honest. The recipe calls for adding cocoa powder after a week or so. I'll let it sit for a week, cold crash and then see what happens.

The recipe called for them to be added during the last 15 minutes of the boil.

As the title says, I have cocoa nibs floating in my fermentor after five days. Next time, I'll use some sort of bag.;) My question is whether a cold crash will get the nibs out of suspension or whether I'll need to figure out a way to filter them out.

This raises another question: Is there a risk of a STA-1 infection in a keg, beer line, tap, etc with a Saison? I’ve been so preoccupied with cleaning and sanitizing my fermenter that it hasn’t occurred to me that that could be an issue too. 😳

I think you’re onto something here. An upside down conical looks a bit like a dunce cap. Whatever it takes.

No offense taken. And, yes, because it's a new toy, I hear it calling to me. But I'm going to ignore it and stick with the plastic bucket. As you and others have pointed out, it's not worth the risk.

I whirlpooled 3 ounces of hops at flameout yesterday. I’m wondering if the intended effect would be negatively affected if I transferred.

Hmmmm. Sounds like I have a decision to make.

The question is silly, not the fermenter. I was chilling my wort yesterday and sanitizing my new conical when I noticed StarSan leaking from the FV. Couldn't figure out why it was leaking, and after about a half hour of trying, I finally put the wort in a plastic fermenter and dumped in the...

Excellent. Thanks!

Question: I too have a no pump Mash & Boil, and I've been using a Pyrex the same way you do. I'm not sure how often to recirculate, though. How often do you do it during the mash?

I was told there wasn’t going to be any statistics.