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hey all, great site you have here, i've learned a ton already.
i just wanted to say hey and let y'all know that i very recently started my first batch. i've had the equipment for quite a while and finally got around to getting some ingredients and getting down to business. it was a great experience and i look really forward to the end result. i've got my wife convinced i'm crazy, i keep smelling the 'burps' of the air lock and man it smells tasty.
anyway, i was trying to do a fairly simple pilsner with all saaz hops and the lager yeast i had just wasn't doing anything when i added it to water and some dried malt extract. i even tried adding a tsp. of white sugar to get it going and it just never did much. i had an old packet of nottingham ale yeast i started just incase. anyway, i ended up using the ale yeast since it looked vigorous after proofing. i know this is OK but what kind of taste/alcohol % can i expect from a yeast switch? and of course i forgot to take an initial gravity reading, can i still do that after a day or so and go off that reading?
i love watchin' those bubbles come out of the airlock. sorry for the long post and thanks in advance.
i just wanted to say hey and let y'all know that i very recently started my first batch. i've had the equipment for quite a while and finally got around to getting some ingredients and getting down to business. it was a great experience and i look really forward to the end result. i've got my wife convinced i'm crazy, i keep smelling the 'burps' of the air lock and man it smells tasty.
anyway, i was trying to do a fairly simple pilsner with all saaz hops and the lager yeast i had just wasn't doing anything when i added it to water and some dried malt extract. i even tried adding a tsp. of white sugar to get it going and it just never did much. i had an old packet of nottingham ale yeast i started just incase. anyway, i ended up using the ale yeast since it looked vigorous after proofing. i know this is OK but what kind of taste/alcohol % can i expect from a yeast switch? and of course i forgot to take an initial gravity reading, can i still do that after a day or so and go off that reading?
i love watchin' those bubbles come out of the airlock. sorry for the long post and thanks in advance.