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woohoo! Thanks for all the good answers guys. Penny was clean...could be zinc... or my imagination! I'll let everyone know after it's bottled a few days and I have more than a sip.

So I read somewhere on these forums that it would be a good idea to add a penny to your brew after you add the hops as it will help to stop the hops from boiling over. I did so on my last batch of beer and now I am fairly certain that it reeks of and tastes like copper. Was I just supposed...

Excellent! Exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks for the info guys. I'm trying to work this out in my mind... So I connect the tube to the stem/first part of the airlock then, I am assuming, I want to make sure that even when the blowoff is done, no air comes back down the tube? So i guess I can put the tube down lower below the...

So I went away to Philadelphia (real ale invitational, woohoo!) after putting my third ever batch of beer in the fermenter only to come back and see that it had apparently overflowed? I guess the yeast was more active than I thought or something. Maybe I filled the carboy too much? Anyway...