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02-04-2012, 03:55 PM
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Originally Posted by NordeastBrewer77
if i remember correctly, it took a couple days for that first starter to start showing signs of activity. after that, every subsequent step up took off like a rocket. i do remember having a bit of doubt with the first stage of the starter, though.
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Yeah me too.
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02-05-2012, 01:11 AM
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Just pulled the fermenter out of the swamp cooler tub for the first time. Look at that yeast cake!! That's a 6.5 gallon carboy. I think I'm gonna have a good harvest.
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02-05-2012, 03:02 AM
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Originally Posted by pabloj13
Just pulled the fermenter out of the swamp cooler tub for the first time. Look at that yeast cake!! That's a 6.5 gallon carboy. I think I'm gonna have a good harvest.
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nice, man. i had a giant cake too when i racked out of primary. the 3 gal i have in secondary has finally started to drop bright. :rocking: bottling that up on tuesday.
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02-05-2012, 03:07 PM
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I love this yeast. i've used it on the B2H clone, a raspberry american wheat and just last week an APA. Next up is a Blonde.
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02-08-2012, 12:46 PM
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Originally Posted by NordeastBrewer77
nice, man. i had a giant cake too when i racked out of primary. the 3 gal i have in secondary has finally started to drop bright. :rocking: bottling that up on tuesday.
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Down to 1.009 from 1.054! Sample tastes good even after only about a week in primary. A few byproducts for them to clean up, but damn those centennial hops are tasty. |
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02-08-2012, 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by pabloj13
Down to 1.009 from 1.054! Sample tastes good even after only about a week in primary. A few byproducts for them to clean up, but damn those centennial hops are tasty.
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 awesome. i think it was like day 7 or 8 when i took the first FG reading. 1.012 from 1.066 (i think, i'll have to check my notes). aside from the yeast still up in suspension, the beer tasted great. i'm gonna bottle the few gallons i dry hopped twice either today or tomorrow, maybe that'll help keep my paws off the first couple gallons i bottled!
i'll be putting up that blog on harvesting later today after i put together the starter. i wanna wait til i have some pics to include to show the process. 
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02-08-2012, 05:25 PM
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I love this yeast so much I decided to devote my next 3 brews to it: Irish Red Ale, Porter, and Russian Imperial Stout. Being somewhat lazy, I will only have to make one small starter for the ~ 1.045 Irish Red. And then just wash and repitch slurries. The Stout is planned to be ~ 1.10 OG, so it will get a lot of slurry.
And I will be freezing a portion of the starter, so I will have lots of future generations to work from.
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02-12-2012, 09:37 PM
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My 2-hearted (right) vs. Bell's (left). Mine used the harvested yeast. Very hard to tell the difference, although I can. 
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02-12-2012, 11:53 PM
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Attachment 47741
My 2-hearted (right) vs. Bell's (left). Mine used the harvested yeast. Very hard to tell the difference, although I can.
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veddy nice, veddy veddy nice.
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02-13-2012, 12:01 AM
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Just racked mine to dry hop. Here is my harvested bounty!!
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