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    Washed yeast starter size

    I am making a pale ale 1.056 It is going to be the sg a. This will be a ten gal. Batch I have 4 pints of washed yeast how much dme and yeast and water do I need to make a starter .
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    Pitching on top yeast cake

    I just racked a 5 gal.pale to secondary I just finished a 10 gal.batch of the same beer I was wandering if I put the yeast cake from the 5. Gal in my ten gal fermenter would it do the job or do I need to add some more thanks
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    To much head space

    Just brewed a fat tire clone the grain bill called for 20.50 lbs.pro mash said I needed a total of 15.50 gals. Of total water I did a 60min. Boil when it was all done I ended up up with 12.50 gals. Of wort for a 10 gal.batch. I just built a new mashtun and boil kettle.and changed the water I...
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    To much head space

    I want thank everybody for all the help.
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    To much head space

    Well I just put a 11 gal.batch in my 16.5 gal. Bucket It is a wheat beer with a sg. 1.050 I need to leave it in there for 3 weeks because my secondary's are full.can anybody tell me if this will be ok or do I need to buy a couple more secondary.
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    To much head space

    I just got a 16.5 gal. Fermenter I just finished a 11 gal.apa I have some concerns about 5.5 gal head space. Can anybody tell me if I leave my beer in there for the full three weeks will I have a problem. Or should I transfer to my kegs after my fg is reached
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    What went wrong

    No the carbonation is fine. It just don't tast like the one I keaged it has a slight funky tast
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    What went wrong

    I used 5 oz of priming sugar. For 5.50 gal. And it's been in the bottle for three weeks
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    What went wrong

    I brewed a 11 gal. Batch I keaged half of the batch and bottled the rest .the one I keaged was excellent the ones I bottled was good at best has anybody had this problem it was a allgrain porter ?
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    Dry hopping and adding gelatin

    i am getting to dry hopp a batch of ipa and wanted to try gelatin to clear it up when should i add the gelatin .and i will also cold crash this beer
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    05 yeast

    i re hydrated they started working in about 12 hours
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    05 yeast

    i am afraid if i used a full pack my fermentor might lift off my work bench.
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    05 yeast

    and they were 5 gal. batches
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    05 yeast

    thats what they told me to pitch at the LHBS. BUT ALL HAVE TURNED OUT GOOD.
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    05 yeast

    i have brewed about 5 batches of ale using 05 yeast all were arounr 1.050 OG. an only pitched 1/2 pack of 05 yeast and all my FG. were on the mark . but every thing i have read on here people are pitching a full pack. have i been just lucky or what ?
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