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As far as I've seen, priming sugar is just corn sugar in a very fine form. (Equivalent to dextrose; not to be confused with high fructose corn syrup). Table sugar (sucrose) seems to be ~2x as sweet when tasted directly (purely subjective number). Use this page's calculator if you want to...

You might need to do a starter on the yeast and almost for sure need to add yeast nutrient (it needs more than just sugar). See the skeeterpee website and the homebrewtalk thread on it. If you're just making fizzy lemonade you won't need to go to such great lengths. I'm a fan of forced...

Innnnteresting. I might have to do a post sussing out all the different sassafras/sarsaparilla questions I've had (and much still to learn).

Ahh, never heard of Yucca Root as a potential ingredient. Thanks! Good call on wintergreen as well, that'll be on the list for sure, but evaluating for head retention is very interesting; that'll be another vector of testing.

Hi Austin, everyone, I'm working on a by-ingredient breakdown of rootbeer recipes. The basic premise is to do individual boils, and cold-steeping, and everything in between (for various durations) on a per ingredient basis. I was unhappy with the current state of the art in rootbeer recipes...

Hi soda lovers! I'm embarking (ha) on an analysis of root beer ingredients, one at a time. My plan is to do cold-steeping, boiling, and everything in between, to determine flavor and extraction techniques for each individual component. With the results I'll have a better understanding to...

At least you didn't have glass shards to contend with!

I could tell you what happened here but then I'd have to kill you...:tank: First wine batch, first racking at 1.010 (7 days) and apparently we bumped the spigot or didn't put the gasket on the correct side. (It leaked from the inside too, so we put the one rubber gasket on the outside.)...

Oh man, "Ceiling Moppers" would be a great home brew club name.

Yikes! I tried to clean pretty well, and thought I got away with it, but this morning my roommate says "hey it smelled like beer all over" :( and I was about to explain, but he meant the beer that's currently brewing :mug:

Yeah, it wanted to be cleaned anyway. :) I'd like to get the hops out, so I might try one more time without the poppet (and after sitting for a while to make sure most are at the bottom) and with much more care and supervision. Then I'll add a strainer, do you think paint strainer's mesh is...

Here are some photos along the way. Hops in the poppet. Window washed in beer. The sediment that finally came out. A very flat version (the force-co2 line was apparently closed most of the time) of our final product.

So I just made my biggest mistake in a while. My brother and I started a Surly Furious clone a month ago. 8.5 oz of dry hops in a glass carboy (directly, no hop bag) two weeks ago. Racked to 5 gallon Korny keg. Cold crashed about a week ago. Gelatin a few days ago. Co2 for the last couple...