Recent content by SlaterS

Ya temp might be a factor I guess, we had a cold spell the past three weeks and it's been hard keeping my house above 65-68. If it's temp, I should be able to shake the hell out of it as long as I keep it in a warm place right? Yeast don't die off in the 50's low 60's, just sleep. Thoughts?

Soooooo I gots me a stuck cider. Some background... I used a local vermont organic cold pasteurized cider with no potassium Sorbate to begin with. I have always just dumped and pitched and had a fantastic cider at the end. This time I tried to get fancy and add some Campden tabs and pectin to...

You're awesome, thanks!

Does the viability date adjust when you create a starter? I.e. On 12/15/2014 I brewed a 2.5 gallon SMaSH to bump up my heady topper experiment. I harvested some yeast from the fermenter on 1/1/2015. I created a new starter with what was harvested on 1/15/2015. Which date should be used for...

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Background, I harvested some Heady Topper yeast and stepped it up to the 2.5 gallon mark so far. I'm about to harvest into separate mason jars for re pitching in later 5 gallon batches. My question is, when re-pitching Mr. Malty says to use 124ml's of yeast. Is this 124ml from the solid yeast...

What's the purpose of boiling DME for 10-15 minutes when making a starter? If conversion has already occurred prior to the drying process, why can't I just heat the water and dissolve the DME? I just got into the world of yeast starters/washing/harvesting/ect...

Anyone tried this or have any pro's/con's to drilling out the plastic big mouth? I like the idea of a base valve for siphoning as I'm about to break my auto siphon over my knee. I would just get the better bottle pre drilled but c'mon, who doesn't want a big mouth for super easy clean up! Sent...

Anyone tried this or have any pro's/con's to drilling out the plastic big mouth? I like the idea of a base valve for siphoning as I'm about to break my auto siphon over my knee. I would just get the better bottle pre drilled but c'mon, who doesn't want a big mouth for super easy clean up! Sent...

They were nibs, about 8oz, plus a couple cups of cold brewed coffee after secondary. We will see. Like I said, I will just have to try a pint at a time and see how my buzz progresses! Thanks for the answer on the refractometer. Now I gotta find a conversion chart that's free

Yooper always knows all! Ran a thief and pulled a sample for the hydrometer. Still not as low as I wanted but it shows around a 1.025

Meh, I figure there is one more test I can do. Continue with carbonation in the keg and see if I get drunk! It tastes fine, not to sweet at all. Maybe I just need a good class on the refractometer. Even though all the original readings look normal

Also first time using refractometer. The thing is calibrated with some "high quality H2O"

Fermentation was at a solid 67-68 degrees and even went an extra week in primary...

Soooo first all grain batch just finished per instructions from northern brewer. However I still have an unusually high FG? Everything was brewed as prescribed, efficiency looked good, just looks like the yeast stop working? Attached is the copy paste from iBrewer. Thanks guys! Chocolate Milk...