henrik

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• Posted in thread: Help with starter for an old yeast (Kolsch 2565) harvest on 01-22-2013 at 05:20 AM
  Another quick update. 24 hours after pitching, the fermentation is highly active. I have my
  temp in the low 60s, so I'm not getting the kolsch yeast blow off effect, (although I have my
  blow off tube ...

• Posted in thread: Help with starter for an old yeast (Kolsch 2565) harvest on 01-21-2013 at 12:15 AM
  Quick update in case anyone comes across this down the road and is interested. I decided to
  leave the starter out for another night. The second morning (which was this morning, approx 36
  hours after m...

• Posted in thread: Help with starter for an old yeast (Kolsch 2565) harvest on 01-19-2013 at 04:12 PM
  I would guess it was about midway between 1.020 and 1.040. I used a little less than a half cup
  of LME (rather than DME) and 2 cups water. I had a very small boilover after which I added a
  touch more ...

• Posted in thread: Help with starter for an old yeast (Kolsch 2565) harvest on 01-19-2013 at 03:56 PM
  Hey guys. Hoping someone can help with some issues I'm having activating some old yeast. About
  9 months ago I brewed a Kolsch using Wyeast 2565 and saved the yeast from the cake using the
  washing meth...

• Posted in thread: Thoughts on IPA recipe? on 06-08-2012 at 03:49 PM
  Update:After trying my hydrometer sample at bottling I had been worrying more and more about
  how my batch was going to turn out. Yesterday after only 5 days of bottle conditioning I
  couldn't help myse...

• Posted in thread: Dry hopping but have to leave town...bottle early or wait until 11-12 days? on 05-30-2012 at 04:56 PM
  Thanks for the input, guys. I'll wait and bottle at the 11-12 day mark and maybe (based on
  smokinghole's linked article) it makes sense to do a one day burst of another ounce or so to
  get that extra h...

• Posted in thread: Dry hopping but have to leave town...bottle early or wait until 11-12 days? on 05-29-2012 at 08:33 PM
  I'm in the middle of a dry hop on an IPA...just started the dry hop 3 days ago (Sat). Anyway,
  we have an unexpected trip out of town this weekend that will keep me away beyond the 7 days of
  dry hop I ...

• Posted in thread: Thoughts on IPA recipe? on 05-29-2012 at 04:46 PM
  henrik, sounds like you have a Black IPA on your hands.Exactly what I was thinking.

• Posted in thread: Thoughts on IPA recipe? on 05-27-2012 at 01:37 AM
  Quick update on my batch:I transferred today to secondary after 8 days in primary. As noted in
  an earlier entry, my original gravity was 1.064 and today's reading was approx 1.014-1.015. I
  decided to ...

• Posted in thread: Thoughts on IPA recipe? on 05-19-2012 at 07:48 AM
  Brewed this tonight. My recipe ended up getting tweaked a bit from the exact recipe stated
  here. I used 8.75 lb golden light LME plus the specialty grains in a partial mash.One thing I'm
  a bit worried...