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If it isn't settling when it comes time to bottle, the hops debris will settle out in the bottle. However, if the cloudiness is due to chill haze, it may not go away completely.

This is good to know. I have a IIPA (JZ's Hophammer) that's just about done carbing!

Just about all Dogfish Head. His beers are always way to sweet. It's funny too because I'll go into the store and see a new DFH I haven't tried, read the label, and decide it sounds good. I get it home and I'm either completely put off by it or just plain indifferent and never buy it...

The Evil Dead.

This show really started to piss me off a while ago. Nothing happens! Sucks because it started out so awesome. Needless to say, I stopped watching.

Tolerance is a wonderful thing...

Seeing how you realistically need at least two consecutive hydrometer readings over several days, I can't see how you can be certain fermentation is complete right now. But, it's possible...

Just an update: Last night I decided I was going to use my other bottling bucket and probably get rid of the bleached one (something I was trying to avoid.) I left the bucket with the top on and forgot about it. This morning, for the heck of it, I figured I'd give one last sniff and the smell...

Other thoughts?

Well that's a little piece of mind. I really hope it's not detrimental. I've considered using a different bucket, but at the same time I'm thinking it might be fine? I'd hate to ruin the batch though...

Honestly, I was expecting more out of Da Bomb. Going down, I really don't think it's that bad. On the other end... nevermind. But in all seriousness, Da Bomb has nothing on East Armageddon. I sort of don't consider Armageddon "true" hot sauce though, since it has pepper extract as an...

I like the site "Tears of Joy" there's some excellent stuff on there. We have an obsession with hot sauce where I work: we literally have a shelf full of them. I have slowly become conditioned to spice and heat over time, to the point where many hot sauces don't phase me. IMO after a while...

I think this could work, but you'd lose beer in the process. While a lot of alcohol would evaporate, you'd also lose some water along with it which could lead to some unbalanced flavors in the resulting liquid. Unless you somehow adjusted the recipe accordingly. Maybe you could brew the...

Overpitching leads to hindered desirable ester development for a given style. While too many esters is often unwanted and caused by underpitching, on the other end of the spectrum, overpitching doesn't allow enough esters to develop that contribute to the flavor profile of many target styles...

I used a mild acidulated bleach solution (2tbsp each. of vinegar + bleach/5gal. water) to clean my bottling bucket after a slight infection I had a little while ago. The bucket was left to soak for 2 days in the solution and thoroughly rinsed with hot water afterwards. It still smelled like...