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• Posted in thread: Maybe protein rests aren't a waste of time? on 03-25-2013 at 02:25 AM
  P.S. just had a thought about your original post and your reading. Depending on how you took
  the sample you may have had a section of more concentrated wort (it does vary as you sparge).I
  have run int...

• Posted in thread: Not decanting a starter = underpitching on 03-22-2013 at 04:17 PM
  Thanks a lot guys for your help. Lots of good information.Brewguyver, how do you know what
  band-aids taste like?

• Posted in thread: Not decanting a starter = underpitching on 03-21-2013 at 07:43 PM
  Okay. So it isn't the growth of the yeast but it is the rate of growth that affects the flavors
  it produces.

• Posted in thread: Not decanting a starter = underpitching on 03-21-2013 at 07:34 PM
  Okay so then how is underpitching different than pitching your starter wort with the yeast? The
  yeast still goes from x amount of cells to y amount of cells in both cases, and in both cases
  the flavor...

• Posted in thread: Not decanting a starter = underpitching on 03-21-2013 at 07:18 PM
  Well it seems to me that alot of people, me included, pitch the whole starter while it is
  active and I am wondering if there are, or why there aren't, those off-flavors associated with
  underpitching.

• Posted in thread: Not decanting a starter = underpitching on 03-21-2013 at 07:02 PM
  So underpitching yeast is bad because you get certain estery and diacetyl flavors from the
  longer growth period the yeast have to undertake until they reach the needed cell count. Since
  it is the yeas...

• Posted in thread: Suspended cold plate - jockey box on 06-03-2012 at 02:55 PM
  I am thinking about building a jockey box with cold plate. I have read that if there is water
  touching the cold plate the beer will come out foamy. I would like to be able to use this
  inside, or at le...

• Posted in thread: Dry beers---low mash temp? on 06-03-2012 at 02:31 AM
  How close is the dryness related to the sweetness? For example, a higher mash temp will give
  you more unfermentables so it will be a sweeter fuller beer. Is that also what will reduce the
  dryness? On ...

• Posted in thread: Pre-boil gravity higher than post boil on 05-07-2012 at 05:15 PM
  Make sure you mix your preboil wort really well before you take a sample. Thank you for the
  quick response. I think you solved all my problems. I did not mix it at all and my thief took
  the sample off...

• Posted in thread: Pre-boil gravity higher than post boil on 05-07-2012 at 04:33 PM
  Hey guys. Been poking around these forums for a while but I finally felt the need to post. I've
  been brewing for about four months now and have done four all grain batches.All my other
  batches have in...