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My first 2 batches came from onlne purchases, one kit was included in by homebrew "package deal". Since then I've made LHBS purchases of ingredients for their kits as listed in my recipe software they publish from their kits. And one Leffe recipe from here.

Yeah, what is the difference in a Stout and Robust Porter today. There seems to be so much overlap.

I see referennces to either and this noob is wondering is there a real difference beween to two. I know that Stout was originally "Stout Porter", so in the intervening century or so how far apart are Stout and Porter really and is "Robust Porter" just another way of saying Stout? :confused:

Just brewed this one on 2-25-13. I used the modded recipe that rounded up the smaller additions to 8oz. I pitched WLP530 that I bought 3wks ago, been crazy trying to squeeze in a brew day. Faint (wishful) activity after 12hrs, half inch of kruezen at 24hrs and tonight there's a solid 1.5...

Count me in.

My cats say it's just your imagination...carry on.:rolleyes:

I agree totally with this. The brewmaster came off kinda high handed and uppity to my mind, lind of like the people who blithly state "it's the journey, not the destination". Well for this guy with two jobs, a wife, and a kid who's busy outside school five days a week I don't have the time for...

I think Winsor Ale comes with the NB kit as default. I had the same thing but I added 1lb amber DME late in the boil. I've noticed a mellowing just two weeks between bottles. Give it a few weeks and I think you'll love it if you like the style.

I use wire mesh tea infusers from Bed Bath and Beyond. I bought four of the large ones for like five bucks each. No problems so far.

I guess I'm never moving to 'Bama. Roll Tide... without me.

Gonna be starting an American Hefe based on the NB recipe as soon as my girls go to bed. Both thought the mash smelled great, wife took a powder when the hops went in. Too flowery she said.

I'll give the experiment a go but I'm not the OP. I was suggesting that maybe the stress is a situational thing and the yeasts are able to recover from that given optimal conditions. I was remembering a "no secondary ferm" thread where a couple of our "elders":) washed yeasts from a month long...

Even if the yeasts were stressed during the fermentation wouldn't they recover once into a clean unstressing environment? It's not like their bio-makeup has changed. I thought once the stressors are removed they would perform normally, esp. a few generations downstream after a healthy step up.

I just think the dishwasher is an extra step my process does not need. If they're cleaned then the glass is chemically sanitised what else is needed?

I rinse bottles right after pouring then commercial bottles go into a SS pot with oxyclean to soak off the labels and clean the insides. After the label comes off they are washed well and stored until bottling day when they get a lingering dunk in starsan and drained. Oxy-cleaned and starsan...

i've heard of guys on this forum aging beers a lot longer than that in bottles without a problem. Look for any of the "age it or chuck it" threads for an odea of how long these guys store it. I can appreciate not wanting to bother your wife with keeping up with your hobby. If you're not looking...

Whiz beer drinkers are wierd, I used to be one. When I came back from Germany many moons ago I went nuts trying to find a good beer. Everyone was drinking whiz and I'd spent the last four years drinking Crystal weissen,Czech Pils and Hefe from the local brewery. This was the late 80s mind you...

Wow. I just asked the question because in Flyguys stickie, yes i read it, there were also guys who took him to task as biased because he admitted he used aluminum. I was kinda looking for a consensus on actual its use vs stainless. Sorry to tick anyone off forcing them to read my stupid...

I see everyone talking about stainless but I havn't found out why no one uses Aluminum. Is there some reaction with the metal or leaching problem?

The article indicated that lighter than liquid hops under the sample can add artificial boyancy to the hydrometer. And I checked the second sample twice, clean sample, no bubbles in the test jar, sitting on a level counter.