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When you carbonated your barley wine did you rehydrate the dry yeast or just dump the dry stuff in?

What I forgot to add was that I'd plan on adding a carbonation tablet (Coopers) to each bottle along with the fermenting yeast from the pipet. The beer finished out at 1.009 so I don't think there are many fermentables left in the batch. I don't plan on bottling the whole batch, maybe just a...

Thanks for the replies. I think I'll try washing the yeast out of primary, build a starter, and then add fermenting starter to the bottles via pipet.

I keg the majority of my beers and force carbonate but want to bottle a few beers from a high alc content Belgian (~11.5%). I was going to add a few grains of dry yeast to each bottle to ensure the bottles carbonated after transferring out of secondary. Any suggestions on a good strain to...

Does anyone know if Kilkenny is distributed in the US, and if so where? I'm in AZ and would like to get a bottle/can or 2 for a friend who loves this beer. Open to a beer swap.

Gritsak, My recipe was almost identical to your recipe, just a couple of small differences. I ended up at 8.6% and hops seemed nearly dead on to the SSR. Mine also had a thinner mouthfeel, what do you plan to do next time to compensate for that? Pic of mine is below on the left, SSR is on the...

Thanks for all the suggestions, looks like there are a few worth checking out. I am a hop head too so will definitely need to check out that BevMo.

I'll be in San Jose for 2 or 3 nights in May, any suggestions for brew pubs in the area? I've been up through S.F. and North of there in the past, looking to stay local in the San Jose area if possible.

. So just throw them in whole?

I'm planning on adding sweet cherries in secondary to mead. Is it best to cut and pit the cherries or can they just be added whole? I plan on leaving them in secondary for at least 6 months.

Nice, I'll have to check that out. Looked them up online, it's only about 3 miles from where I grew up, I'm a bit further out now in Chandler but go by there occasionally.

It's been a while now but I seem to remember paying about $30-35 for 12 lbs.