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I have a quarter # of Willamette thats 7 years old. Vacuumed and freezer'd the whole time. Thoughts?

1# of pellets... i wouldnt be concerned. probably like half of one of your door shelves.

I thought the o2 magic was activated with h2o? If the caps were stored a cool place I wouldn't worry. Inspect the seal otherwise bottle away with those vintage suckers!!

How big a starter? Nutes? Given clean enough procedures, I don't think a vial at 10%, or even .01% could ever be lost completely.

Thanks for the good info and advice everyone! I am usually very safe around chemicals but I know accidents happen and well.. from matt's post they are not the tingly fun kinds. Dstar- are you saying NaOH doesnt have the same cleaner power as pbw? A little more digging suggests Tsp+oxcylean to...

Extract beers win awards every year at homebrew competitions, and I'm pretty sure there's a few craft breweries who just use extract in their beers. I always have around 6#s of dme/lme available for starters, bottling, gravity adjustments during brewing, and maybe for that occasional extract...

I was wondering if potassium or sodium hydroxide has any applications in cleaning of homebrew equipment. I am aware it can etch glass and melt plastic, but even in weaker solutions it still possesses an ability to break down organic material. (at least from my previous experiences in lab) I've...

wow looks like ur getting pounded pretty good right now! stay safe!

whats the point to it? heating and cooling thin glass is usually not good juju. and your just sanitizing by boiling, which you could've effectively done with some starsan, iodine, alcohol, etc. I don't think I've ever sanitized my hydrometer... the sample just never needs to go back.

Satan's mash temp? apparently likes a little more body in his beers.

Well gravity usually depends on the beer. But I'm lucky if i get 75% efficiency, so theres probably still alot of good stuff left. My initial test results seem very promising... maybe not as fast as other grains but still pretty darn good since I also made a beer with alot of the converted...

just check on my petri and wow the 5 year old culture was definitely still alive!! Would no-sparge grains be the best to use for cultivation because of the higher levels of sugars compared to fully sparged, flavorless grain? Should I start with a smaller grain such as millet then inoculate...

Yeah I realized later on the myc doesn't have access to the cold break proteins. Next time i'll decant the clear wort off for cultures.

Could be the caps/capper. Try to twist the crimped cap on the bottle with your hand. It shouldn't move. Also make sure you stir the priming sugar into the bottling bucket although I would've expected some foamers if you didn't evenly distribute the sugar. Look into a buying a scale so you can...

GUs, Simple sugars, attenuation.

What he said ^^^ But maybe try the oven tek for sanitizing . If your really concerned about them being dry well... they'll definitely be dry after baking in the oven!!

Bottled my simcoe-amarillo ipa and slapped on some labels. Wish there was something to bottle every day... :(

Explore some high AA hops. Try liquid hop extracts. Master the dry hop. Sounds like you really need your fix!! ;)

I used to throw my carboy in a large ice tub and fill it partially with water. The t-shirt covering the carboy would wick up some water so adding a fan helped bring the temps down to a level very suitable for ales (i think it was 65ish) Now I have a chest freezer from costco with an analogue...