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FastFastfermenter has an accessory 'sampling port' with a drill bit available. This should make pulling samples easier. I guess you could also bottle from it as well if you placed very low in the fermenter itself.

Many thanks for the helpful replies. First time using this yeast and just didn't know if it was normal. Brew day tomorrow as scheduled!!

I put White Labs WLP002 in the stirrer last evening for an ESB I plan on brewing tomorrow. This morning the yeast has hundreds of tiny lumps floating. It's hard to see in the photo, but you get the idea. Not sure what this all about, do I have a problem here? The yeast was kept refrigerated...

How do you delete ingredients? Say you add a hop and then wish to delete, don't see any obvious way to do that except make the quantity or time zero. What am I missing? Thanks!

The conical shape and ball are designed to just that. After 1 week, I emptied the ball and reattached. After 1 more week emptied the ball again, attached the bottling attachment, stirred in priming sugar and bottled. Finished beer was crystal clear.

"In 2005, two guys and a dog began home brewing in a garage in North-Eastern Scotland. Two years and countless successes & failures later, BrewDog came howling into the world. Eight years after that - and more than 200 different beers later - we released the recipe and story behind every single...

Agreed once on point, it's an informative gold mine of information. But, wading through the amateur hour attempts at sophomoric bathroom humor, verging on vulgarity is a general turnoff.

Correct. Franklin's cartoon had nothing to do with the war of 1812. That's settled.

Not all germs are enemies. Just enough of them to make people ill because many fail to wash their hands when needed. Similarly, there's enough germs around to make your beer become ill as well. Sanitization is simple common sense.

What do you intend to vigorously wash with? Soap, detergents? Aren't these also chemical additives? It's my understanding most typical soap type residue will have a unfavorable result when used in contact with brewing equipment.

It took about 20 minutes to pump the wort (6 Gal) into the fermenter. You need to slow the wort flow down enough to maximize the heat transfer from the cool water. Amount of water to cool? I never measured it.

I got a nice Grandfather boil on a 120V, 20 amp, dedicated circuit using no extension cords and the ‘Gaincoat’ installed in a rather cool basement (60F). Time to boil from mash temp of 154F: 35 minutes. Total boil volume: 7.5 US Gals. Very happy with my first Grainfather brew day...

Join, or die. The famous Ben Franklin editorial cartoon -- a favorite. Not sure what it has do to with the War of 1812 because it preceded it by quite a few years. But, nice design.

I got one of these from Harbor Freight. Not the best quality, but does the job of lifting a heavy load for a very cheap price. I rigged mine up to lift a Grainfather basket in the basement with an eye-hook fastened to an overhead floor joist...

Yes, that's the one. From Jamil's Brewing Classic Styles. Doing the all-grain version in my Grainfather for first-time brew. I'm a little worried all of those hops will clog-up the pump and filter. I was looking to scale the hops back a little without ruining the brew.