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I'm in the process of trying to revive a package of expired WYeast 1450 and have my first mini starter going. It's about 9 months since it was packaged and just wondering what to look for as far as the smell. It's mildy sour but not bad at all when I smell into the Erlenmeyer flask. It's been on...

I'm brewing a pumpkin ale and am using WY1450. I went to my LHBS and found one pack manufactured on December 8th of 2016. The bag had also been "popped" so it was swelled. They gave it to me for free. Think it'll work? I'll obviously use a starter but just wondering. My og will be ~1.065

I've never noticed any difference in mine and use gelatin for all my beers, except my hefeweizens.

8090.5 + 5 gallon hefeweizen + 5 gallon pale ale + 5 gallon American strong ale + 5 gallon pale ale + 5 gallon pumpkin ale + 5 gallon hefeweizen = 8120.5

Sounds about normal for me. I use Wyeast 3638 and my final gravity is usually reached in a matter of days. But I ferment warm at 70f

It was at 1.012 for 3 days. I used wlp 007 and it had sat in primary for just about a month. I transferred before adding dry hops. Like I said, I had only put it on gas for a min or two and purged as much out as I could. When I pulled the prv before removing the hops, a small hiss was all i...

Perle as bittering with Cascade as flavor, aroma and dry hop

Oh okay, and yes and no to your question. I was avoiding o2 to limit oxidation but also didn't want any co2 in the beer as I wasn't quite ready to carb it. I had put it in the keg as a "secondary fermentation" so I had planned on letting sit for a week or two before I started carbing. Oh well...

Interesting. Thanks for the info. So even tho the keg had only been on gas for a few mins and it was burped, that's still enough to carb the beer? I had always thought carbonation required time, temp and psi. Everything I had done was to minimize the amount of dissolved co2.

Is there a chance there may have been more co2 than I thought in the keg? And it had already been carbed? I only used 10 psi for maybe a few minutes and burped it multiple times. Also, the reason I had pulled the hops out is because I used a bag to drop them in and was going to pull them out...

There was some co2 in the keg as I had purged the O2 from the keg. But not much.

Woah not sure what just happened. Had my arrogant bastard clone in the keg and had been dry hopped with 2oz of Chinook. I had very little headspace in the keg and there was some minor foaming when I put the hops in. Anyway, I had gone to remove the hops today. Relaeaes the pressure in the keg...

I have a huge extra freezer so luckily storage isn't much of an issue here. But yeah, I have hops for days right now.

I bought 7lbs of hops for just under $85! All individually sealed in 1oz packages. I ordered a week or two ago (right when the 60% off started) and my ordered shipped next day. Guess I got lucky! Best of luck with your order being fulfilled

Thanks for the replies. I understand, there's more to this than I could explain in a few paragraphs. Maybe my mind has been clouded because my groomsman have basically told me "hey this is 100% your deal. The other parts of the wedding are 100% hers." Note: they are all married men. I guess...