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    Yeast harvest from a commercial beer

    I just did it with Sierra Nevada pale ale. I poured 3 bottles into glasses. Sanitized 3 pieces of foil, covered them and while I was waiting for them to come to room temperatures made a starter with a low gravity (1.010). I swirled the bottles and poured them in to a 40ml starter and covered...
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    Pitching two older liquid yeast packets. NEED HELP ASAP!

    I would definitely have 05 on standby. I would personally go ahead and pitch it. I ruined a batch with diacetyl once due to a long lag time, but that was because I drank to much and forgot to aerate
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    How long before you made your first real good beer?

    It took about 12 AG batches and pretty much every improvement you could make, temp control, oxygenator, stir plate with starter before I made a beer that I deemed drinkable. I think a kegging system and using acidulated malt to lower ph ultimately is what made the difference
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    Graff (Malty, slightly hopped cider)

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