Recent content by davidtraher

Great info, thanks all

Hi all…if my chamber will always be in a heated garage, usually about 22C/72F, or hotter in the summer, is a heat source required? What do you do to ferment multiple beers at the same time at different temps?

Thanks all....rightly or wrong I dumped the batch, didn't love the taste anyways. Bottled a Kölsch yesterday, put a drop and roughly a half in each, storing them on the counter, garage is heated, set to about 69, which I can bump up if need be. I earmarked my calendar for 3 weeks before...

Thanks all....it occurred to me that I stored the beer on my garage floor, so perhaps it was simply too cold? My first back was stored on the counter, so no concrete to draw heat out of maybe?

I used the Coopers drops. Beer was at roughly 70, and stored in a dark area for probably 13 days before they went in the fridge, and chilled for a day

Yes, pictures are taken at the same time. I thought the top looked good too. Correct on the batch size, OG was supposed to be 1.047 but was 1.054. Bottle is 4 litres/1 gallon, with 1 litre of water. I used the BU calculator as well, it said I need to do the step up starter, but this sure...

Hi all....I bottled my second batch of beer, ever. It was an extract kit, Irish Red Ale. I use the 500ml plastic bottles and put in one carbonation drop in each. The beer sat for almost two weeks at room temp, chilled, and tried them last night. I ended up opening every bottle and not one of...

This is my first starter, used WLP080 Cream Ale yeast. I don’t have a stir plate. Made it Wednesday night, it’s now Saturday morning, shaked the starter Wort like crazy for several minutes, added yeast (not sure it was room temp, probably a little cooler), added the yeast, swirled it around...

So do I use the wort of the cream ale or just add some DME and water and put the yeast into that?

Thanks everyone...I looked at other calculators and they are all over the place, 24%, 42%....doesn't make life any easier!

Sorry, here are the screenshots from Brewer's Friend, I hope this helps. I don't have a stir plate, otherwise it said the liquid would have been fine

Hi all, newbie here....using a pitch rate calculator for my all grain cream ale, it says my liquid yeast is only at 29% viability, so short by a lot even after using a starter. I only have the one pack of liquid yeast (WLP080). So, if I create a starter with that yeast, can I add a dry yeast...