Bill Dutton wrote:
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> I don't trust kits. Some make good beer and some do not. You never know
> if the extract in the kit is fresh or not and the yeast is usually of poor
> quality.
>
> I have switched from doing kits to making extract w/specialty grains based
> 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 deal
> of success harvesting and storing yeast for future use. This cuts down on
> the expense ($5-6 for liquid yeast) and my fermentation in subsequent
> generations of yeast(re-use) has been excellent.[/color]

Watch out for some of those Cat's Meow recipes...a good number of them
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!

------------->Denny
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Life begins at 60 - 1.060, that is.

"Denny Conn" <dontspam@all.com> wrote in message
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-- > 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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> Bill Dutton wrote:
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> > 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]

Dan Listermann wrote:
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> I find problems with about half of those that walk into my shop. Somebody
> needs to go through those things doing a sanity check.
>[/color]

It would be nice if there was at least a warning on the page that some
recipes might be suspect.

---------->Denny
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Life begins at 60 - 1.060, that is.

"Denny Conn" <denny.g.conn@ci.GETRIDOFTHISPART.eugene.or.us> wrote in
message news:3EFC8ABD.498EE38@ci.GETRIDOFTHISPART.eugene.or.us...[color=blue]
> Dan Listermann wrote:
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> > I find problems with about half of those that walk into my shop.[/color][/color]
Somebody[color=blue][color=green]
> > needs to go through those things doing a sanity check.
> >[/color]
>
> It would be nice if there was at least a warning on the page that some
> recipes might be suspect.
>
> ---------->Denny
> --
> Life begins at 60 - 1.060, that is.[/color]

I lost the bookmark a long long time ago. That is the best way to go.
Besides, it is hard to trust any online recipe ... except this one:

[url]http://www.tastybrew.com/brews/print/50[/url]

Do you think this would ferment well if CL-50 ;)

Tom Veldhouse

"Thomas T. Veldhouse" wrote:
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> I lost the bookmark a long long time ago. That is the best way to go.
> Besides, it is hard to trust any online recipe ... except this one:
>
> [url]http://www.tastybrew.com/brews/print/50[/url]
>
> Do you think this would ferment well if CL-50 ;)[/color]

You devil! For some reason, that one seems vaguely familiar, not to
mention right on the money! :) Actually, I've used both WY1272 and
Brewtek CL50 on it, and they both worked great. We brew 10 gal. of
wort, then my brewing partner and I each ferment 5 gal. separately, and
combine them at bottling. We've done a fair bit of experimenting with
different yeast for each half.

------------->Denny

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Life begins at 60 - 1.060, that is.