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    Kegging 1/2, bottling 1/2

    I'm not sure what blem is talking about... most HBS's carry soda kegs. The tops come off easily. You can force carb or naturally carb. If you're bottling anyway, go ahead and carb naturally but before you add the beer, flood the keg CO2 so you don't have Oxygen in the keg.
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    How to Brew - Pages 191-195 errors?

    That's why publishers come out with more than one edition of a book.
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    Building a grain recipe from scratch

    I would highly recommend this book. Also, if you buy your grain where the shop keeper will let you taste the grain, you'll find that helps too. Were it not for that, I wouldn't have thought to add Special B to my Brown (even though Special B is Belgian and Brown is British). Nibble in grain...
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    8 days too long dry hop?

    In a word, no. Seriously, you can dry hop for as long or as little time as you need to. IPA gets its name from India Pale Ale -- they would ship ale on long voyages with lots of hops in them to preserve the ale... much longer than 14-15 days. You will use all of the goodness out of them but...
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    Awesome stir plate kickstarter!

    Because building one is too hard?
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    Never Reached Hot Break?

    Did you use any adjunct grains (steeping)? If not, this wouldn't surprise me because if you just use extract, all that you've added is pure sugar, with no proteins to speak of.
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    Extract, selecting the correct kind?

    In general, color, malt flavor and mouth feel come from the grains you steep. The sugars come from the extract. Does that mean that dark DME will give you a lightly colored beer? Nope. In fact, if you want a lightly colored beer, add only half of your extract at the beginning of the boil and...
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    I've got rust on my burner :(

    1) Open a beer. 2) Pour the beer into a glass. 3) Fire up burner. 4) Drink beer. 5) Relax. 6) Don't worry.
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    Cheapest shipping for bulk grains

    Since they are the same company as RebelBrewer.com, Rebel may be handling their stuff now.
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    Cheapest shipping for bulk grains

    I had good luck with these guys in the past: http://www.fiftypoundsack.com/
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    Checking SG pre boil

    I don't take a pre-boil reading... mostly because it's where it should be (or at least where I expect it) most of the time but I do take a sample glass of first runnings and at a shot of bourbon to it and enjoy that during the sparge. It'll warm your soul on the coldest of days.
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    Want to use a bucket as a strainer - is mash temp too hot for plastic?

    Charlie Papazian actually suggests using a bucket with a bunch of holes drilled in his book "The Complete Joy of Homebrewing". That said, I wouldn't press them (it'll introduce tannins and you don't want that), rinse them with sparge water (at about 170 degrees F) to get any remaining sugar off.
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    Hopping a porter

    Before you start getting fancy, I would take the take to make a technically correct porter. From that, you can add which ever fancy stuff you want to in. For instance, during the Christmas season, I add gingerbread spices to a porter. I've also added things like coffee, raspberries, blue...
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    Hopping a porter

    A commercial brewery can use regular chocolate because they will likely have the equipment needed to get the fat out of the beer (for instance, chilling it and skimming it off the top). That said, use the nibs that most homebrewers use or you won't have any head on your beer. Since you are...
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    Hopping a porter

    Don't go dumping random chocolate into your beer. Chocolate has fats and dairy in it and the results might not be awesome. You can find cocoa nibs (the fat's been removed) are your local brew shop. Toss that in to secondary.
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    Hopping a porter

    Yes. http://bjcp.org/docs/2015_Guidelines_Beer.pdf
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    Hopping a porter

    Well, let's turn to the BJCP 2015 Guidelines for what a porter is. Since you bring up Nugget hops, I'll assume that you're talking about American Porter (20a). Straight from the guidelines: To give you an idea of what 25-50 IBUs are, my porter recipe uses .5 oz Centennial @60, .5 oz Fuggles...
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    How to *really* brew can kits?

    Actually, Richmond and Virginia Beach are fairly close. Then again, we don't think much of driving 100 miles. That wasn't the point. The point was that he should be able to get Thomas Fawcett products fairly easily.
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    First all-grain: Any advice?

    Generally, if you get software like Brew Target (free download) and input your recipe, it'll output step by step instructions. As for the idea of doing a SMASH, it doesn't matter which recipe you use since every all grain brewing operations are exactly the same. Sure, you might change mash...
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    First all-grain: Any advice?

    For a first time AG brewer, the advice that I'd give is hold off on the RDWHAHB until AFTER everything is cleaned up. You'll have a lot of moving parts that you'll want to keep track of. Go to the drug store and get a thing of Iodine and use that to see if conversion is complete for your first...
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