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Invite participants to bring some of their homebrew for sharing during the class. Extract brewing demonstration for the beginners of course. Keep the group small and keep every active around the equipment. Involve all of their senses to experience the smells, tastes, textures and sights of...

You've never been to Portland, Oregon? You will pass 4 breweries on your way to a brewery

So the OP posts a huge picture of a glass of beer and exclaims his batch turned out great but does not give the story about the recipe, process or whatever? huh?

That's a lot of work, for a little beer.

I'll check it out thanks

I learned a long time ago that if you are dragging out the dme and the pots for boiling just make a way bigger batch than you need immediately, then just bottle the remainder like you would your beer! Now you have your OWN starter, ready to go, when you are!

Where do you buy your yeast in bulk? Online? Do you prefer dry or liquid? Thanks!

My remarks are :off: but related... I often wondered about the process of homebrewers brewing concoctions without any monitoring, adding "ingredients" and bottling the finished product which is then submitted for judging and tasting by others. There are no regulations or culpability with...

Some of the contributors in this thread make me wonder why Starsan hasn't thought of starting their own soft drink line. Sanitizer over ice sounds cool and refreshing on a hot summer day. :drunk: The OP asked for opinions and got them. The guy who tops off his batches with sanitizer took...

Maybe it's the folks at Starsan that are wrong?

Is your magnet under the plate + the heat pad still able to spin the solution?

This is the reason I am WAYYYY quicker to just recycle a lot of the worst bottles. Some of the crap you are trying to dislodge, if it's that embedded, may have also skunked the bottle for-ev-er!

Camel Crickets freak us out also. The best control measure to date has been the use of glue traps. Their innate habit of cannibalism is their own demise. As soon as just one cricket lands on the glue, the entire rest of the clan is attracted to the glue trap, not to help their distressed...

Dump your choice of hops into the fermenter and let them flavor your batch for a week. Assuming you use a brite/conditioning tank for carbing just draw off your tank to the brite and apply CO2 as usual!

That's way more work than necessary. Simply shovel a layer of soil and composted leaves, straw or whatever organic matter you have handy on top and cover them well. If the temps are forecast to plummet to sub-arctic temps then toss a plastic trash bag or vinyl tarp on top for good measure...

You can go purchase a wine thief but don't forget you only need a little more than a drop of liquid. Why not find something long and metallic (clothes hanger?) around the house that you can easily sanitize, dip into your carboy and place a drip on your refractometer?

NO ... but at the same time, if you are growing your knowledge base enough to ask the question in the first place... go ahead and grow some more by doing it! The equipment necessary is attainable and it's not hard. Cheers! :tank:

We eat pinches of grain like snacking on peanuts just for the taste!

Unless you go a very long time between brew days, this is unlikely. Grain has a very long shelf life. When all grain guys leap to bulk buys they are usually higher volume brewers and grain just does not sit around, or you are buying more than you should.

... which is exactly what commercial brewers do. If you get a chance to tour their grain room you will find a small mountain of grain sacks with the partials lying against the bottom of the pile with the flap rolled/tucked. Cheers to that!