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If I were doing this, I would make a champagne starter with carefully measured "golden syrup", well oxygenated and fermenting stongly. I have never used a liquid champagne and am interested in your results if you could let us know! Good luck.

Yes! It's all a gamble! I think people with good sanitary practices give up on a strain because they are worried about ruining a day of brewing. I subscribe to the school of thought that your yeast will adapt to the beer that you are making and become better in subsequent generations. What you...

Alot of these thoughts depend on whether you are filtering or conditioning in your keg. I "fast force carb" all of the beer that I filter. I force carb it in a few minutes and then enjoy it! I like less carbonated beers, so am not so concerned about the moderate carbonation I get from agitating...

I have bottled with Champagne yeast with success. I'm not sure if that's what you're after or not. It depends on the style and what you're going for, but a different yeast at bottling time can dry a beer out and give you neat bubbles.

In Canada (Ontario?), TSC has a very stout turkey fryer with 34 qt pot on sale right now. Nice looking unit.

I'm not sure how these contests work. <rant>I guess I am concerned that some crazy Lactic Lambic or something in the "other" category made with pine nuts and lemongrass is going to win because it is so far away from a real category that it can't be rated </endrant> But I'm Canadian, I'm fine...

Now it's SWOWO for me! ;)

You can bottle directly out of a keg. Carbonation will mostly stay in suspension when everything is cold - beer should be 0 degrees, bottles too and do it in the garage in the north. It will be a bit of an issue if you are planning on aging the beer in the bottle, as you aren't replacing the air...

I'm in. If there's not a lot of interest, maybe Yooper could spin the BJCP style wheel and pick 2 or 3 styles that we have to make. When is this, btw? And who sells those BJCP style wheels in Canada? Maybe you can rent them...

Great photo! Ha! How many times have we seen that. Do like the Portuguese grandmothers and myself and get a gas stove in the basement!

I rack after 3-5 days based on hydrometer. I think there's a theory that you do not want to harvest your quickly-flocullating yeast that has fallen out of suspension in these first days. You want the strong yeasts that stay in suspension and fight for those last few points of gravity! I like to...

Did you trim the dip tube a bit? If not, you may get a foamy pour off the bat with the sediment. Mmmm.

You will definitely get better growth this year. Dig a big root ball around the plants and you'll be good. But even if you just got the minimum root ball, I'd say you will get way better growth this year than last.

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Here's a good one. http://www.crannogales.com/HopsManual.pdf