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What is the difference between Clean, Sanitized and Sterilized?
What is the difference between
Clean,
Sanitized and
Sterilized?
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How to add adjuncts (hops, fruit, spices, etc) to the fermenter without contaminating the beer?
What is the best way to sterilize things like dry hops, spices or fruit before putting them in the fermenter?
Some stuff you can obviously boil. But boiling hops, say, would defeat the purpose of ...
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How can I put minerals back into distilled or reverse osmosis water?
The tap water where I live is filled with chlorine, flouride, some pretty bad elements such as arsenic, chromium, barium, etc. So I would like to purify my water with either reverse osmosis or ...
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Irish Moss - powder form?
I have a Oatmeal Stout recipe that calls for 4 tsp/ 1 gram of Irish moss powder. The LHBS had Irish moss, but I wouldn't call it a powder. They're small flat pieces maybe the size of half a grain of ...