Recent content by Keith Hartley

Any updates on the controller?

Thanks for the replies. Poured spent beer off this morning, still tasted like sweet wort. Not a solid yeast cake at the bottom either. Think may have ruptured the yeast cell while freezing becaused didn't mix the tubes properly. Added another L of wort & placed back on stirplate, hope for the...

Hi all Made a starter from a frozen yeast. I am unsure of its health as I forgot to shake the vials to mix up the yeast & glycerine before submerging in alcohol & freezing It's been on stirplate for 36 hrs. No sign of fermentation, colour change, thickness, krausen ect. I checked gravity &...

Thanks for the responses. Want to make sure I understand this. Do you think the 30 tubes of yeast are going to be alright or too weak? I guess a starter will be the test. Do you usually just fill the ten tubes & dump the rest? Thanks again

Do you reuse the isopropyl alcohol?

Did anyone else get way more yeast than expected? Ended up making a 1200ml starter instead of 1000, yeast was on stir plate for 48 hrs. I got 30 tubes of yeast & probably dumped another 100 ml of yeast down the drain. I crashed & dumped off the stale beer twice before filling the tubes. Could of...

The test tubes say sterile but do you sanitize them with stars an each time?

Hi Great article. Doing my 1st batch today. What pressure do you can the glycerin/ water mixture?

Wyeast 1332 harvested from a (1st generation) starter April 4th Just the yeast & 1800 ml of wort (1040) that I canned from a previous brew day. Stepped this yeast up as well for my 1st 10 gal batch.

Have you ever had a starter this active? Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Harvested a white labs last week, worked great. Thank you My closest brew store is 3.5 hrs away & fermentis dry yeast is about $4.50 a packet. Could we do the same with a dry yeast & would it be worthwhile?

Harvested a white labs last week, worked great. Thank you My closest brew store is 3.5 hrs away & fermentis dry yeast is about $4.50 a packet. Could we do the same with a dry yeast & would it be worthwhile?

Cool, kinda what I figured but didn't want to take any chances with my first all grain biab batch. It smelt fine when I put it in the fridge.

Hi guys I made a starter a couple of weeks ago, stepped it up after a couple of days but then brew day was delayed. It sat on the counter about a week before cold crashing it. Do you think it will be ok to use? Thanks

Chiller came out pretty shiny after about a 8hr soak. Used it for the 1st time the other day & it chilled the wort to 70 F in about 20 min. Thanks for the great vid Bobby