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*****Hops are gone, good luck with them insanim8er!***** I've been growing Hops in my parents yard for the last several years. I've moved away from the area since last summer, and I don't want my folks to have to maintain them, nor do I have room at my new place. I've got 7 varieties that I...

Well no room to park cars in my garage too many hobbies :D I'll taste it and check for rodent penetration Thanks!

So I picked up some 2-row from my LHBS about 4 motnhs ago, life has conspired to keep me from brewing. The grain has been kept in a paper bag in my garage. Any way to know if it is still good or not?

I don't have to pay for a lot of the hazardous materials I dispose of, so I don't mind a fee now and then. I've decided that pricing at Airgas is determined by who helps you, I've paid multiple different prices for CO2 exchanges at the same store. Soldering was a success: Keggle holding water:

Just a little heads up, at Airgas, Harris Stay-Brite & Stay-Clean are now branded as Radnor. It's still from Harris. My local Airgas had a pretty large display with several different sizes, I paid $14.17 for the kit, including at $3.75 hazmat charge.

Do a quick Google search for canning starters, been doing it for about 6 months and my life is much easier.

I've been using Quart and Half-Gallon canning jars for about a year now via this method: http://ahomebrewlog.blogspot.com/2010/06/canning-yeast-starter-wort.html With pressure cooking you can be sure you are starting from a sanitized medium. The canning jars and lids are much less expensive...

I've had a couple of my starters with low cell counts take a couple days to start showing much activity. You want to avoid the airlock will trying to grow yeast, they need oxygen to reproduce. I usually just put some sanitized foil loosely over the the opening of my starter vessel. This will...

For anything over 1.080 I usually make a double large starter. Using this method I've always reached good final gravities without having to re-pitch.

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Every time I make new starter media, I end up with quite a bit of particulate matter at the bottom of the flask. Do people filter this out or just leave it? Does it have any value? I've talking about the un-fermented wort without prior to adding the yeast.

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