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what kind of sanitizer and cleaner do you use? if you use oxyclean and either use too much per gallon of water and/or dont rinse it well enough (no slippery residue) you will get that taste. also if you dont rinse your sanitizer well enough (assuming it is a san. that you need to rinse)...

North Conway, NH - Tuckermans Boston - Publickhouse and Sunset if you can make it out to western NY you will have a much better beer drinking time.

the la chouffe is the best one brewed as a belgian and the le freak is the best that is brewed as an american ale at least in my opinion.

i dont use hopsacks, i just dump the hops in. if you have a false bottom or bazooka screen in you boil kettle it wont matter at all. if you dont then try this. take your hopsack and while you are syphoning into the primary, syphon through the hopsack into a funnel into the primary. it will catch...

i love the safale yeasts, they are like lightening in a condom wrapper.

if you are talking about the stopper at the tip, it is oblong and when you put it back on you need to attach the narrow end to the two clips on the tip of the syphon. the same thing happened to me and it took me a little be to figure it out.

thanks for the responses. unfortunately ill be hoofing it the whole time im there so my forays out of town will be difficult. i pretty much suspected that the pearl st area the hill would be where most things were.

Safale SA-05 is cheap and quick, I like the wyeast ale strains but in all honesty I like the 05 is probably the best yeast ive used and did i mention its ultra cheap. pretty much my go to yeast for an ale.

Im heading to Boulder in a few weeks and Im looking for some locals advice on some choice bars. Im going to hit some of the breweries in town but im looking for more. any help would be appreciated. P.S. A bar that sports Rus. River and perhaps 3 Flloyds beers would be nice.

Its primarily an aroma thing, so if you want your beer to smell a bit better, and because of that taste a small bit better, than do it. On IPA's i usually do two separate dry hops after about 5 days of violent fermentation, then dry hop for a week each stage. on a five gallon batch I use about 2...

beer tools is really good, but what the previous posts have said are correct in the fact that you have to do a bit of configuring and fooling around before everything fully clicks. Also i recommend calibrating all your equipment.

sorry, got it all walmart in hudson nh. its this squarish thing that is clear with a tan lid.

we use a dog food storage bin. it holds exactly 55lbs. with some head room it has a large seal opening and a smaller sealed opening for scoops. cost about 10 bucks.

for real, boston is a **** show on new years. but if you want good beer and feel like getting to a place early, the sunset bar and grill on brighton ave in allston is as good as the east coast gets in tap and bottle selection. the food is good too.

depends on where you put them, ive seen recipies where people boil them but i was told to specifically use dried orange peels and place them in a mason jar with a cup of vodka and the coriander to sit for the entire fermentation and then add to the mix when bottling.