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Maybe I missed the announcement email but I just noticed YVH has spectrum in 20g satchels. Has anyone tried it yet? It’s pretty pricey at $25 per 20g

I've been meaning to get over there. I'm only 30-40 minutes away but haven't managed to stop there yet. I've heard great things.

From the More Beer page on the product "Although commonly added to heavily dry hopped beers, using ALDC during fermentation can benefit any beer style by reducing Diacetyl production. Brewing hops all contain the naturally occurring enzyme AMG or amyloglucosidase which breaks down long chain...

any update to your batch?

Look up a vitality starter, that’s essentially what you did here. You may not have had the count you desired but the yeasties were primed and ready to CONSUME

They had some very limited distro here on Long Island at some point in the last 12 months. It was official distro, but the price was as if it were muled. ~30 bucks a 4 pack and 8 dollars a can for singles. I was excited for it, and got a can but wasn't terribly impressed. I actually wrote them...

I have done this frequently just to save time on transfers. I've tried this for a ton of different styles with success. you can still crash yeast out then dry hop, but the only thing you really can't do is rouse the dry hops. Personally, i think the ability to rouse is key to dry hopping cold. I...

yeah that's definitely the use case here, scrub O2. I get that. I'm just saying as it is an Acid just like the Lactic/phosphoric one might use in the mash (i do adjust my mash as well) it should reduce your beers pH. High hop loads can increase your pH and so I know a few on here have been...

Thank you both. do you adjust for pH before/after whirlpool/dry hop? I do not. I wonder if given that its an acid, if that "brightness" is from the slight pH correction that would have otherwise been absent. Particularly since you stated a notable difference in hoppy beers, which might...

I assume you are just using the powdered version? do you dissolve it ahead of time or just as powder with the dry hops? what's your dose per gallon?

Yes, just don't decant them. If you build to 2L, save 500ml of that and pitch the 1500ml into your wort. make sure its well mixed before you pour off what you intend to save. You should never really be decanting A24 cause the sacc trois is less flocculent than the conan portion. decanting will...

I haven't used the lupomax Sabro (or any lupo yet) but i did 1oz sabro, 7oz galaxy in a beer a year or two ago. I was also concerned about sabro overpowering. It definitely added something, more of a tropical vibe, than coconut. I think you'd be fine with 1oz lupo sabro, and you might consider...

did you simplify the whirlpool schedule or do the 3 different ones at different temps? Always seemed like overkill to me to do it the way the official clone is written.

I bought my stir plate and "yeast starter kit" on amazon for 30 each. Not that far off from your 75 though. However, before I had a stir plate I would just use a growler with some foil on top. swirl it up to get O2 in there when ever i thought about it and it works wonders. The growth rate is...

I've never had an issue just making a starter when the pouch arrives, inflated or not. Might not be able to direct pitch as advertised, but rarely would you not benefit from a starter. That said i dont do starters for dry yeast. I overbuild my starts, save a portion and these samples stay in...