Dumb suggestions from the LHBS

3) Our hops aren't stored long enough to benefit from oxygen mitigation.

 

4) We don't carry them and you don't need an o-ring for your bucket lid...they just get dirty
5) What's dehusked Carafa?

both of these happened a few years ago when they were the only game in town

 

6) Starsan turns into fermentable sugars for yeast.

 

7) Use table sugar for a yeast starter.

 

8) the C02 gauge isn't accurate because it's a 5 lb tank.

 

9) This kolsch yeast will be great in that dunkelweizen.

10) I haven't used brett because I don't like sour beers.

 

11. Carapills and carafoam give the same results.

 

I confess to thinking of these as essentially the same thing from different maltsters. I guess carafoam may have a sweet nuance that carapils lacks, but this does not seem to be an egregiously misinformed suggestion.

 

12. English yeasts are all pretty much the same.

 

I notice a very sweet difference when using carafoam. Not what I want when making pales,IPAs and other styles.

 

My father-in-law actually believed it too. Then I told him that starsan is acid!!!! Explain that to me. The message was, "don't fear the foam, as the starsan turns into fermentable sugars for the yeast." LOL

 

When Starsan is diluted by wort it becomes a yeast nutrient, not a fermentable.

 

I've heard that before, from the guy who owns 5 Star I think. But I wonder what elements/compounds in Starsan are actually used by yeast, and whether those elements/compounds are ever actually limiting factors anyway. (Couldn't be marketing hype, right?)

 

13.) Carawheat is a good substitute for wheat malt

 

14.) Just follow the instructions on the kit and you can't go wrong

 

15) You don't need a starter, that single vial of 001 is fine for your 1.072 IPA.

 

16.) Ferment for Xdays and then move to secondary.

 

Depends what x=...like all of this thread...context is everything sometimes cheers