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• Posted in thread: Trying to put together a Double/Imperial Wit recipe. on 05-21-2013 at 05:12 PM
  Sorry to revive an old thread. How did this turn out?

• Posted in thread: my hydrometer and refractometer disagree on 05-21-2013 at 12:39 PM
  What do they measure in room temp distilled water?

• Posted in thread: Dehydrating yeast on 05-20-2013 at 02:08 PM
  lyophilizer?They are not very cheap :)

• Posted in thread: Dehydrating yeast on 05-20-2013 at 02:06 PM
  How would you do this in a sanitary way? I think you would contaminate the yeast in the
  process.This is what makes it difficult to do at home.

• Posted in thread: How much yeast do we lose when we decant starters? on 05-19-2013 at 03:51 PM
  Any studies or personal experience with this? I just stepped up to a 1200ml starter and after
  crashing in the fridge there was only a thin layer of clear liquid. 75% of the remaining liquid
  looks to h...

• Posted in thread: Yeast question on 05-19-2013 at 03:38 PM
  122733This is used yeast. I made a Wit a few weeks ago thatI made a starter with about 6 hours
  ago. Can you elaborate on this a bit more? Did you take the yeast cake from the prior batch,
  then make a ...

• Posted in thread: I didn't make a starter, so how many packs? on 05-19-2013 at 02:25 PM
  Can you seal the fermenter (well sanitized of course) and make a starter for it then pitch
  tomorrow or Tuesday?Without purging the head space of oxygen it sounds scary, but then again
  some people do d...

• Posted in thread: I didn't make a starter, so how many packs? on 05-19-2013 at 02:25 PM
  On similar note, keeping pre-canned wort around to make a quick starter will help with these
  situations as well.

• Posted in thread: I didn't make a starter, so how many packs? on 05-19-2013 at 02:24 PM
  I have one smack pack of 1056 already ready to go, but I figure I should run out and get some
  more yeast. My calculator (Beersmith) says 287b cells, and each pack is about 100b, so that
  would mean 3 p...

• Posted in thread: Yeast measuring for counting on 05-16-2013 at 07:31 PM
  OK, I think I have this figured out, thanks for the help.I took one mason jar, decanted all
  liquid and then filled it back up to the 100ml line on the jar. I slowly swirled the jar for a
  few minutes. ...