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Maverick shroomed@rediffmail.com
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"I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us...
very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad..."

Also I'm not using rice, I use Rye Grain.

The amounts used are 1 tablespoon of honey, 1 tablespoon of malt, in the malt/honey I used a 50/50 mixture (1.5 teaspoons of each).

My heating system (as primitive as it was) has gone kablooey So my jars have been subjected to some pretty darned low temperatures for the past couple of days. I'm hoping that contamination doesn't get a foot hold, I'll be fixing it tonight though with a replacement I just procured today. It's a pitty too because I was starting to see some growth in a couple of the batches (The control and malt jars...). Now however with the temps at night reaching into the upper 50s in my house, I'm not too optimistic. We'll see once I get the heat back up to more optimal measures. Hopefully things will just start off where they left off and no nasty contaminants got and bad ideas...

Will update as the situation progresses.