Jim's Beer Kit

Seems you guys don't use a stirplate when making starters? Am I correct? With a good stirplate you can assume 150 billion new cells per litre of 1.040-strength wort. So a 3 litre starter gets me 450 billion cells in addition to those I pitched. (That number is not critical, though you sholdn't go to...

I'm not too optimistic, but asking never hurts: One of my absolute favourites is O'Hara's Irish Red. Have any of you a good idea about the recipe? O'Hara's pretty tight-lipped, and I've never come any closer than what they let out about it on their site. Only thing I've heard outside of that is that...