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• Posted in thread: When to pitch second yeast? on 03-25-2006 at 03:30 AM
  ok...actually i should have thought about checking the gravity before throwing the champagne in
  (if at all). Hahaha but i dont want it to be too sweet either! i guess i could taste it...but i
  dont kno...

• Posted in thread: When to pitch second yeast? on 03-25-2006 at 03:22 AM
  ok. that makes a lot of sense to me now. So i think what im going to do is pitch the champagne
  tomorrow (if this thing is done shooting krausen out the blow out tube). now the question
  is...how much t...

• Posted in thread: When to pitch second yeast? on 03-25-2006 at 03:09 AM
  Rod- the recipe says "champagne yeast added at the end of ale yeast fermentation...."so yes.
  .... After the long long age process do the ale yeast initially used die (autolysis) requiring
  for a new ye...

• Posted in thread: When to pitch second yeast? on 03-24-2006 at 10:49 PM
  really?...i would have thought the second stage of fermentation due to the second pitch wouldnt
  be over in enough time to bottle?....maybe im wrong cause ive never done this before...and im
  not sure h...

• Posted in thread: Filter Wort or not? on 03-24-2006 at 10:43 PM
  To answer your question:"Hefeweizen, is a variety of wheat beer in which the yeast is not
  filtered out. Though Kristallweizen (clear), Dunkelweizen (dark) and Weizenstarkbier (higher
  alcohol content) ...

• Posted in thread: Filter Wort or not? on 03-24-2006 at 10:38 PM
  yeah. Im not extremely familiar with wheats except for hefeweizens and theyre unfiltered
  anyway. But i know what you mean about wheat beers. I just meant does the clarity of the
  finished product chang...

• Posted in thread: Filter Wort or not? on 03-24-2006 at 10:27 PM
  awsome thanks for the feed back. How hazy does your beer turn out, out of the bottle?

• Posted in thread: Filter Wort or not? on 03-24-2006 at 04:35 PM
  thanks for the timely responses. To find more information i opened a resource that i forgot i
  even had to research more on this. In charlie papazian's book joy of homebrewing there are a
  couple of ref...

• Posted in thread: When to pitch second yeast? on 03-24-2006 at 04:36 AM
  I was wondering when to pitch the second yeast for say a barley wine (using an ale yeast and a
  champagne yeast)? Ive only found one place that even mentioned it and it said to pitch when the
  krausen s...

• Posted in thread: Filter Wort or not? on 03-24-2006 at 03:40 AM
  I wondered if filtration of the wort upon transfer to primary affects the fermentation? I
  recently brewed a batch of barley wine and due to time constraints i couldnt filter it like i
  usually do. Will...