"Denny Conn" <dontspam@all.com> wrote in message
news:26ea5c5f4fed864d7a784f24ccc57c2f@TeraNews...
-- > Watch out for some of those Cat's Meow recipes...a good number of them[color=blue]
> were posted without the recipe ever being tested. I even ran across a
> Red ale recipe there that was nothing but crystal malt! In order to use
> them, you have to know enough to recognize what might be wrong![/color]

I find problems with about half of those that walk into my shop. Somebody
needs to go through those things doing a sanity check.

Dan Listermann

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[color=blue]
> Bill Dutton wrote:
>[color=green]
> > I don't trust kits. Some make good beer and some do not. You never[/color][/color]
know[color=blue][color=green]
> > if the extract in the kit is fresh or not and the yeast is usually of[/color][/color]
poor[color=blue][color=green]
> > quality.
> >
> > I have switched from doing kits to making extract w/specialty grains[/color][/color]
based[color=blue][color=green]
> > on recipes from Clone Brews or cats meow 3 (go to hbd.org for info on
> > recipes). I also use only good quality yeast from White Labs, Wyeast or
> > some Safale or Nottingham dry yeast packets. I have also had a great[/color][/color]
deal[color=blue][color=green]
> > of success harvesting and storing yeast for future use. This cuts down[/color][/color]
on[color=blue][color=green]
> > the expense ($5-6 for liquid yeast) and my fermentation in subsequent
> > generations of yeast(re-use) has been excellent.[/color]
>
>
> ------------->Denny
> --
> Life begins at 60 - 1.060, that is.[/color]