I never would have thought of this. Ill drink some beers tonight and harvest the yeast from there. I never stop learning great stuff from this forum. Thank you guys so much for all the help and quick responses.
on the off chance any one has a suggestion the kit I have is a northern brewer cream ale extract kit wit specialty grains and calls for "wyeast 1056 American ale" liqued yeast or the dry yeast "safale us-05 ale yeast"
I packed all my gear and extract kit and drove 4 hours to my parents house in northern WI. I was excited to show my dad this new home brewing thing I've started doing. I brought everything into the house and started to unpack and was looking for the wyeast 1056 American ale yeast to put it in...
and that's why it works. Since both methanol and ethanol are variants of alcohol I was thinking that ethanol would work the same. Now I could be wrong. It has been a long time since I had a chemistry class. I was just going by the fact that she was talking about alcohol in general regardless of...
I saw this clip a few hours after reading your post. It explains how alcohol molecules are smaller than water and can slip into the space between the water molecules. The myth-buster girl explains it better. I know it wouldn't account for a whole gallon missing but I thought it was pretty...
I appreciate the help. I had read about how fermenting at to high a temp causes off flavors but didn't know if it did the same during conditioning. Now I can sleep soundly tonight and dream of cracking my first cold homebrew in a month. Thanks again guys for the quick reassurance.
I just bottled my first brew Sunday night. An Irish red ale extract from NB with Danstar Nottingham Ale Yeast. I'm storing the bottles in my windowless laundry room in the basement. Since it is only 63 in there I've been using a space heater to keep the room at 70. I checked it at 3 pm today and...