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• Posted in thread: Lager Troubles(esters) on 03-16-2012 at 05:41 PM
  Great. I just brewed my first lager. The fermentation went as expected and it is sitting in the
  beer fridge lagering as we speak. I started out at 65* per the wyeast package for 12 hours and
  lowered i...

• Posted in thread: Lager Troubles(esters) on 03-16-2012 at 05:19 PM
  For every person saying pitch at 45 and raise to 50 there is one saying pitch at 65 and lower
  when you see activity.Exactly. I do remember reading some posts on here about starting under
  50, but it se...

• Posted in thread: Lager Troubles(esters) on 03-16-2012 at 04:55 PM
  Awesome, I'll check it out. The only reference I've had for lagers is Palmer's "How to brew",
  which in the lagers section uses a lot of qualitative verbage rather than quantitative. So I
  knew I needed...

• Posted in thread: Lager Troubles(esters) on 03-16-2012 at 04:16 PM
  Fair enough. I think the problem was that my efforts were focused in getting my info from the
  wrong places. If my local brew shop guy said a 2L starter with one pack of yeast was enough I
  believed him...

• Posted in thread: Lager Troubles(esters) on 03-16-2012 at 03:03 PM
  Thanks, guys. Sounds like i'll have a solid plan for the next batch.

• Posted in thread: Lager Troubles(esters) on 03-16-2012 at 02:16 PM
  ^^^That still may be under pitching.Looks like it. Mr. Malty says I would need 2 packs in 1.64L
  wort, or one pack in 4L wort.

• Posted in thread: Lager Troubles(esters) on 03-16-2012 at 01:51 PM
  I agree with all of the above. Pitching at 45 and allowing the beer to rise to 50 degrees (no
  higher) will encourage yeast growth and reproduction and a good healthy start. I know people
  pitch at 70 a...

• Posted in thread: Lager Troubles(esters) on 03-16-2012 at 01:48 PM
  Wow thanks for the quick replies.As far as the yeast goes, my starter was one smack pack into
  2L of wort that was about .045 gravity. Let that go for 24 hrs, swirling occasionally. There
  was more than...

• Posted in thread: Lager Troubles(esters) on 03-16-2012 at 01:15 PM
  Hi. This is my first post. Sorry, it will be long, but I want to be detailed.So I had been
  brewing for about a year when I decided to try my hand at lagering. Went with a keezer design,
  got a 75$ used...