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How long does it take bottles to dry? I used a 1 oz 6% bleach per 5 gallon water, then added 1 oz white vinegar per 5 gallon water as well to lower pH to make it an effective killer. The founder of 5 Star Chemicals (StarSan) says that's a rinse-free concentration. But how long until I can...

Does it matter if i get the thick or thin walled tubing? Will thin be easier to bend around where I want?

I have the option of getting a red carboy cap for the BB or a drilled universal medium stopper. If I'm using it for primary I want to set up a blow-off tube, should I go for the red cap? What's the best way to set up the blow-off tube? Should I get an airlock too to have handy?

Oh yeah, I'm getting ahead of myself I suppose. I'm gonna go for the unported one... but can I just use the racking cane I use with a plastic bucket on the BB and rack into my existing bottling bucket? My question is if my existing racking cane will reach down far enough in the 6 gal BB?

If I can let the solids fall out, that'd be a lot easier for me, will that take forever? I'm getting a Better Bottle to start this one in so I don't have to rack to 2ndary, should I get the porter version and skip the bottling bucket too?

Syke, I'm using AHS instead of LHBS (45 min away), So I'm getting the Chinook (2 oz), Golding for aroma (1 oz), and 1 oz of both cascade and amarillo for flavor (or should I do 2 oz of just one of those?)

Yes or no on the muslin bag for the hop tea? I'm using pellets (replacing Chinook with Amarillo for bitterness, adding Cascade mid boil, and keeping Golding for aroma). Same rules for bitterness/flavor/aroma in terms of boil time in the tea?

What is sparkling extract? The only dry amber extract on BeerAlchemy is "sparkling" and I have no idea what that means.

TeleTwanger: If my AA efficiency is going to be bad, why would dry hopping help? I thought that extracted no AAs.

Haha not recently, although rest assured several other students have undoubtedly filled that role.... Halloween is coming up and my car will be a LONG WAY away from Del Playa Dr. (not to mention my brews will be BARRICADED somehow). Coastarine: Will the hop tea extract a good deal of AAs? I...

Would you suggest any changes in my timing of hop additions?

Wow that's very helpful thanks, I had no idea how much doing a small volume boil could affect bitterness.

Use less Chinook hops or add them later? Would that balance flavor and bitterness better? Would it be better to use different hops for flavor and only 1 oz of chinook?

5 gallon batch... is that going to be a big problem? I'll convert them all in a sec.

Ah sorry, the formatting on that table I entered screwed up I hope you all can make it out.

I'm doing my first IPA in a week and I'm trying to put together a recipe that's going to drive me to HOP HEAVEN. I used BeerAlchemy and threw this together... and suggestions? I only have a small-ish pot that can't take more than 1.5 gal without having overflow problems... Fermentables...

Hmmm billy mays knows what he's talking about? Maybe I'll get that insurance he does commercials for now, maybe even an OvGlove...

I just cleaned them out and my GOD that was a pain. Two of them weren't rinsed after I drank them and had some mold deposits on the bottoms, but I scrubbed with a bottle brush and dishwashing detergent and rinsed well... will that be an issue? I'm going to soak them all probably overnight in a...

the packet said to rehydrate a little warmer... like 103 F i think but i guesstimated a little lower

For my first brew I used dry Munton's yeast and just re-hydrated for 20 or 30 minutes in boiled warm water... and it took off very quickly (<3 hrs) but I wasn't sure that was necessarily a good thing