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Jaw....

I did see the REC files there and nabbed all of them the other night. They make a great base to start from with little or no tweaking.

Thanks!

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Bender... Jawbox and brewmeisterintng have good solid points to their replies. Northern Brewer makes some pretty awesome kits and they also publish their recipes on their site. I have 2 brew buddies that purchase their kits on a regular basis....and of course I have the chance to sample their finish...

say liv2fly88...

i've been doing that exact technique to cool wort for a few years now but i use a sub-pump and a cooler of ice and a few inches of water. It works great and fast too.

Where in FL are you? I'm in the NSB Daytona area.

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Congrats on your success! I should be receiving my yeast bank supplies by tomorrow and will start to collect and freeze my yeast samples soon. I'm pretty excited to do this and to grow up a collection of different yeasts! No more driving 20 miles for a vial of yeast just to find out they don't have ...

yes....the yeast will last longer than 2 weeks, and i don't remember ever stating that the yeast would perish after that time. I should have stated that for maximum viability, it has been said that you should try to use your harvested in 2 weeks, and if not, ensure that they are stored appropriately...

great! I hope the links help you out on your quest.

great speaking to you too.

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It has been said that if handled correctly and stored in a cold fridge, harvest yeast should be used within 2 weeks of harvest. I haven't tried going any longer than that, but when I want to re-pitch yeast, I try to time it so that on brew day, I rack the finished beer from the primary...then rack t...

rig up a blow off tube if necessary

Say PhalC1...

So how did your brew session go? CONGRATS on taking the plunge.....of course you know that your life will never be the same again....right?? The brew bug bites pretty hard...LOL!!

Keep brewin!

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clinebo, didn't mean to offend you with my attempt to be humorous. Nothing wrong with trying to recreate a historical recipe no matter from what time period. I find myself doing the same every once in a while. I wish you every success with your research and brew. If you decide to use actual spruce t...

Wow...spruce beer..... I have tried some commercial examples a while back and I forget who produced it, but i didn't care for it at all. But to each his own...! I would leave the piney taste and scent to the xmas trees... But if you really need to you could always use 2 drops of turpentine in your b...

I forgot to mention that the book that i picked up by that Pierre guy, was very good, but I don't want to get in to this process as deep as he does in the book. But still, it has some good techniques for yeast handling, but it didn't get into any freezing or long term storage. I just ordered some eq...

shaggyt, When I was using Weyerman's pils malt, it would be for a lager of which I would mash at 148 deg F. I found it usually took 90 to 105 minutes for conversion. I have since discontinued this brand of Pils malt in favor of Durst malt and conversion is taking less time, an hour to an hour 15 or ...

Work does get in the way at times. Glad you have the newly found time to brew again. I brewed last Friday night and it went great. I used my sub-pump in our inground pool connected to my IC for chilling the wort and that worked great too. The pool's temp was at 50 deg or so and it worked out fine. I...

Hi Shaun....

There's a decent primer about this subject at Palmer's website.

Here's the direct url: http://www.howtobrew.com/section2/chapter12-4.html

Hope this helps...

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