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C'Ville CAMRA expat, now living in Albuquerque here. Question: Can you repitch onto yeast cake, or wash-rinse/reuse yeast from cider for other cider?

You can make beer!!! (Just kidding, mostly!) A quick plug into BeerSmith software shows the DME and Caramel 10 would have a potential Original Gravity (OG) of 1.061. If you like a hoppy-beer, add 1oz at each 60, 30 and 5 and again at secondary to dry hop...All the hops you have are a...

This is what I love about Homebrewtalk...the love! In all seriousness, thanks for all the inputs; When I keg, I'm on the hook to bring a growlers-worth over to the brewer at Rock Bottom to compare the the Naughty Scot! I'll report the feedback. I have this thing where I draw off an once...

I know you're right, but with the cost of grains and hops, I had to give the dry stuff a try. My general rule now is to use liquid for lighter beers (wheats, wits, cream ales, etc,) I'll use at least a Wyeast 1056 or the 1214 for my Belgian Wits. (Hey, at least I'm not using the package...

Thanks for the tip; I'll definately try that next time! I'll have to ask my HBS to get some of the US-05 (I'm pretty sure I've seen it there, I'll have to look.) At $1.95 for the Fermentis and $6.95+ for the Wyeast, I've been sticking with the dry yeast, except for my belgian wits, I've been...

I've been wanting to make a scottish ale, so I looked around the recipe database, and even download a homebrew podcast that talked about scottish ales. So this is the rough average of the various recipes and the podcast. Not sure what the shilling count will be until I take a gravity...

My rhizome was shaped like a "V" so it was easy to cut, with a sharp, clean/sanitized knive. i was careful to keep the roots intact and rebury them. its like cutting roots to propogate. Both rhizomes now have several bines coming up!!!

For the health-food-store hops? not a clue. I have heard of people growing decorative hops (why not make beer, but oh well.) Maybe the hops grown for non-beer uses are the decorative kind.... My plant is a Cascade. I split the main rhizome into two and each plant now has around 7 bines each.

Oh no, you wouldn't use them for beer. its like putting the dried cranberries from the potpourii into you thanksgiving cranberry sauce. They're small, so I wonder if they're picking them small or early. I asked if the hops from the hops plant they're giving me are OK for beer. They said no...

The company, Frontier, is the same company that sell bulk herbs and stuff like that at health food stores, Whole Foods/Wild Oats, etc. In fact, I got my hop plant last year from a nursery that sells herb plants at the local farmers market. I asked them what they use hops for and they said...

I'm growing cascades here in Colorado. These are year-two vines. I dug them up and split the rhizome into two plants. (The rhizome was shaped like a "V" so it was easy to split.) The main plant has many wonderful shoots (about 8 or 9). The secondary plant has 4 or 5 coming... I've read...

I got a couple of pin-lock kegs (for free, so I can't complain.) My problem was when I took every thing apart to sanitize and replace seals/gaskets, I didn't pay attention to which pin-post went where. When I got my CO2 tank and lines, I wasn't sure which connector fit to which post. I also...

Thanks a lot! Yeah, that makes sense now that I look at the lettering on the top of the fittings: CG-G on the 2-pin (G=gas [I presume]) CG-L on the 3-pin (L=liquid) Cheers! :mug:

Bone head question of the night... Which fitting goes to which post? That is, does the three pin fitting go to the gas in or the beer out? (and same question for the two pin) thanks in advance!