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Allright cool, sounds good. First time I've used this yeast, so just a little surprised. Thanks guys.

So I made a yeast starter last night using Wyeast 1968 London ESB liquid yeast packet, and when I poured it into the flask I noticed there was a lot of solids at the bottom. The smack pack was pretty much fully inflated so I would assume it is good yeast. It has been in a flask stirring all...

Posting so I can find this later

Hello all, I bottled some Oktoberfest last Thursday, and unfortunately have used some wrong bottles with them (11 total). I want to re-bottle them using normal, blank bottles from a local homebrew store. My question: Any problems with carbonation? I was hoping that it was early on in...

When you say crash the starter, does that mean to put it in the fridge overnight or a few days, or like a freezer? Because I put mine in a fridge overnight, and when I tried to decant by pouring the yeast was still in suspension pretty well. I ended up pitching the whole thing (although it was...

Thanks for the advice, osagedr.

Hello all, I have a couple questions regarding doing an Oktoberfest. Allright, so I already did a pretty simple batch of Oktoberfest. This was the first yeast starter I made, so I hope I did it right. I didn't have a stir plate or flask, so I just did it in a growler and shook it whenever I...

Lemme get some of that free stuff

I got the sight glass from brewhardware.com, but just got the plain 90 degree elbow version since I already bought the brewmometer from Blichmann previously.

Hello all, Here is my brewpot: It's a 10 gal stainless steel one, and it's dimensions are 12" tall and about 15.75" in diameter. I am about to install three things: Drain Valve Brewmometer Sight Glass I am wondering what the general heights of these should be. I feel like...

I'm telling Hannah you're wasting your KY stash

Would WD-40 be a reasonable selection for drill lubricant?

Hahah I was just kidding about the olive oil, then a few people said that's what they used haha that cracks me up.

I don't really plan on doing any machining, I'm not a DIY kind of guy. The only oils I have now are olive oils.

Hey, I got a two part question for you guys. I just got some drill bits to drill a hole in my stainless steel brewpot so I could put a valve on it. I was wondering what kind of drill lubricant I could use for this. A quick google search came up with something like this: Amazon.com: LC...

Whoa, that's crazy, I'm getting married on 10/13/2012 and was thinking about doing the same! I was thinking of doing an octoberfest, since it will be in october.

Holla.