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    whole cone hops

    A friend of mine is growing cascade hops in up state NY, he is sending me about a pound to brew with. This is the second year of his crop and he does not have specs for alpha/beta yet... He has dried them and vacuum packed them. What is the best way for me to incorporate these into my beer...
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    New White Labs packaging?

    What's everyone's thoughts on the new White Labs packaging? I used it for the first time the other day when creating yeast starters. At first I missed the vials but the new packaging actually works pretty well. The yeast inside doesn't seem to cake up like it did in the vials.
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    yeast efficiency?

    I use BeerSmith and since I started crushing my own grain I am hitting the estimated OG at 80% efficiency. Where I am pretty far off is with the FG. My last batch the estimated FG was 1.010, but it measured at 1.002... is this something beersmith is not calculating correctly or am I just getting...
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    same wort different yeasts?

    I brewed an IPA, 10 gallons, and have 5 gallons in each of two 6.5 gallon carboys. In one I pitched WPL0001 California Ale, the other I pitched WLP0005 British Ale. The color of the beer in the British Ale carboy is much darker than the other, also all of the yeast is on the bottom, nothing on...
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    When to transfer to secondary?

    I have two 6.5 gallon carboys in a swamp cooler for primary fermentation, these were put in there on the 4th with blow off tubes. I am still having activity and tomorrow is 7 days. Because of my work schedule we usually brew/transfer/keg/bottle on saturdays. Is it bad to transfer to a...
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    How to age beer in a keg

    Hello, I just kegged a beer that the recipe says should age in the keg for 30 days at 65 F. What is the proper way to do this? I put it in the keg, purged the oxygen out and put it ander about 30 pounds and just put in my pantry(without the co2 connected), no where near 65 put pretty cool...
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    Mash, what the heck does rise mean?

    Hello All, I'm a fairly new brewer. I've done about 4 extract batches and bought the equipment to do 10 gallon all gran batches. I've done three so far, a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Clone, a SMaSH Saison, and I'm kegging a Cranberry Ale tomorrow. These were all done with recipes I found online. I...
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