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For those of you who have harvested WLP 007, did you find that the healthy white yeast settled out before all of the crud? I've seen references to it being difficult to separate; mine separated great - just in the wrong order. It looks like the clumpy stuff went right to the bottom with a...

I've got an interesting stuck fermentation. I brewed a 1.080 Tripel 10 days ago. Everything went great and I pitched a decanted 3L stir plate starter of WLP550 at about 64F. I had about a gallon of extra wort/trub left over and pitched a tiny 6 month old stored bit of WLP550 in that. The gallon...

Does a recirculating mash BIAB aggravate the increased trub issue? After brewing a few ales on my recirculating electric kettle BIAB setup, I just roll with the increased trub. I pump over to the fermenter until the sludge gets really thick and I am done. But after trying a couple of lagers...

Does anyone have experience using Beersmith for BIAB beyond the instructions on the Beersmith blog? It does not make sense to use your boil volume as your strike volume as instructed. No water absorption by the grain? Speaking of that, is there a way to adjust the grain absorption ratio in...

I have been rinsing yeast and storing in 30ml vials for several months. Now I am getting a similar sulfur smell from all of them. All are 2-4 months old. WLP001, upon opening after 4 months, foamed over heavily and gave off a strong sulfur odor. I dumped them all, thinking they were...

I brewed a Haus Pale Ale (all grain) using all Amarillo instead of Cascade about 4 months ago that seemed pretty good in the bottle. I saved one and brewed it again, incresing the Amarillo about 33%, including a FWH addition. I also pitched a 2L starter of 1056 instead of dry Nottingham and...

Has anyone attempted to brew the Oskar Blues Gordon clone based on the Can You Brew It episode recently? Just racked mine to secondary on the Amarillo pellets. It went from 1.080 to 1.014 in nine days so all seems to be on track. Tasted the sample and it left me feeling this one has some work...

Just finished my second AG batch yesterday - a Witbier recipe from Midwest. I went for the added challenge of doing a protien rest as well. It all seemed ok, but the OG came in low. I am batch sparging in an Igloo 10gal with circle hose braid. Any ideas on what happened? Will it be an obvious...