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Nylon tea bags.
I want to experiment with dry hopping some session beers in the growler i'm taking camping.
Their ok now but I brewed them in the spring and they have faded a little.
they are also in the back of the keggorator and I don't want to move the kegs around cause then it stirs stuff up.
 
An igloo 120 quart cooler, an 8 foot braided stainless hose (guess what I'm making!), and 25 pounds of Maris Otter.
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Still waiting for a valve, thermometer, and some fittings/hardware.
 
Yesterday two vials of cooked yeast from the vault. UGH. The package smelled like raw bread dough when I opened it, calling whitelabs on Monday.
Follow up, I had responded to the “your package was delivered” email, and on Monday there was a reply with apologies and a replacement order with overnight delivery submitted. As long as the fedex guy knocks it should be okay.
 
Follow up, I had responded to the “your package was delivered” email, and on Monday there was a reply with apologies and a replacement order with overnight delivery submitted. As long as the fedex guy knocks it should be okay.
I had the same issue with yeast from Northern Brewer. They basically said too bad nothing we can do about it. I made starters and tried to salvage the yeast but my Hefe with 3068 is a sulfur bomb.
 
I had the same issue with yeast from Northern Brewer. They basically said too bad nothing we can do about it. I made starters and tried to salvage the yeast but my Hefe with 3068 is a sulfur bomb.

If you made a proper starter and pitched healthy yeast (which it should have been) there is another reason that caused your "sulfur bomb"

But Northern Brewer has always in the past been very good at replacing yeast. Wonder if that has changed?

BTW, it is best not to order liquid yeast for shipping during summer weather. At least you should spring for next day delivery so that it shouldn't sit around in a hot truck. By liquid yeast in the summer (and probably mid winter) from your LHBS.
 
If you made a proper starter and pitched healthy yeast (which it should have been) there is another reason that caused your "sulfur bomb"

But Northern Brewer has always in the past been very good at replacing yeast. Wonder if that has changed?

BTW, it is best not to order liquid yeast for shipping during summer weather. At least you should spring for next day delivery so that it shouldn't sit around in a hot truck. By liquid yeast in the summer (and probably mid winter) from your LHBS.
Indeed, yes avoid shipping liquid yeast in summer. The discussion started out with the white labs vault release, which THEY decided to do in the summer. Perhaps because business is slower for them this time of year, or they just want something for their employees to do (double shipping many orders) :) anyway, they are making it right.
 
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I had the same issue with yeast from Northern Brewer. They basically said too bad nothing we can do about it. I made starters and tried to salvage the yeast but my Hefe with 3068 is a sulfur bomb.

Hmm, I think I would have contacted the credit card company to refund that purchase.
 
I'm double-dipping here but I'm still very excited. Looks good snuggled inbetween the fermenter.

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Are those brown top tall bins to the left of the woodstove the airtight grain storage bins that are on Amazon in the $15-25 range? I so do they work well for grain?
 
Are those brown top tall bins to the left of the woodstove the airtight grain storage bins that are on Amazon in the $15-25 range? I so do they work well for grain?
Wife thinks we got them at Petco, but I can't rightly remember. They've had turns as pet food, flour/sugar and now grain.
 
A decent, sturdy cylinder valve for my O2 rig, with the proper 1/4" barb, from MoreBeer (guess they're all the same.) I originally had a hardware store BernzOMatic valve with the odd 11/64" (?) barb. Had to slip a sleeve of 1/4" OD tubing on that as an "adapter" for my 1/4" ID gas line. Okay, this is a little thing, but it really peeved me. I like things done right. This little thing makes me happy. I think it's a pretty nice rig now.
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