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That and pumpkin pie spice. No actual pumpkin in the beer. Also if you are a fan of the Pumpkinhead, go out and find their "Smashed Pumpkin" beer which is basically Pumpkinhead on steroids.

Starsan should have the poison control guy I talked to on their podcast "even if she drank a little she'll be fine, you have to really drink a lot to do any kind of damage".

FML- getting ready to mix up a bucket of Starsan and in squeezing to get to 1/2 oz shot the lid off. This created a fountain of sanitizer that went across the kitchen and into the dinning room onto my 7-month old daughter (and everything in between). So now her and I have Starsan on us. Wife...

I think brewing is more like baking than cooking. Cooking is far more forgiving and requires less deep understanding of the process to innovate. That said I am a strong cook now because when I was younger I made some ****ty food. I still ate most of it, just like newbs will drink most...

Seems like the OPs biggest issue is the thread that follow failure, rather than beginners deviating from recipes. That said no need to open a thread on a public message board if you don't like it.

So then if I buy local, what is the ideal manufacture date? I assume the newer the better, but what would be considered 'old' yeast?

Getting ready to brew my first batch this weekend (hefeweizen). Knowing how critical the yeast is in a wheat beer, I would prefer to use a liquid yeast over dry. That said how great is the risk in shipping liquid yeast this time of year (given current heat waves). I do have dry yeast here as...

Getting started (had a kit), and needed to know what to do next. It is amazing what Google will find.