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Since my girlfriend was doing the supposed heavy handed capping that night, I should just ask her to back off the steroids a bit? Thanks for the help. I just checked a few more of the beers and they seemed to be fine, and they didn't inflict any bodily harm. :mug:

I know its only 11am, but I'm drinking the first bottle of my IPA because of a little accident. The bottles have been carbonating for 6 days, so I decided to look at them and turn one around a few times to watch the yeast float around, and when I turned the bottle upside down it made a fizzing...

steel wool is good for getting stubborn glue and labels off of bottles

This helped me with bottling the first time. It is a little confusing though. http://www.byo.com/resources/carbonation

I want to find a recipe that is easy to do and wouldn't suffer from having the hops changed every time. I'm a hop-head but I have zero knowledge of how to distinguish the varieties by taste or aroma- they all just taste like hops. So a SMASH - type recipe that could be used for a wide range of...

Thanks! Less cleaning is fine with me. Is the video of the fresh wort on a yeast cake fermenting yours? Is that what can be expected anytime you pitch onto a cake? That's crazy how fast it got going in the video.

I think I'm just going to do what they discuss here - https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f163/yeast-cake-expiry-138674/

I am also wondering how long a yeast cake can be in a fermenter before being reused, and is cleaning up the krauzen (?) stains from before a issue? I have a IPA and a bitter fermenting now, and I would like to pitch a imperial stout into the IPA cake and a pale ale into the bitter cake. The...

I made my first two HB's this past Sunday, and they are vigorously fermenting away in my basement while I relax and watch south park. I went with the Palace Bitter, and Palilalia IPA recipes from TCJOHB. I used Wyeast 1335 Brit Ale II for the bitter and Wyeast 1056 American for the IPA. What...