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NEIPA are great beers to brew. Heavy mouth fill with a fruit forward finish. After a few sips of a perfected NEIPA, who would want to drink anything else. However, some of us have a great looking IPA that looks as juicy as OJ only to have it clear up in a few weeks. While others have been...

I can't wait to only have to cool the wort to 95 degrees. We use so much water when cold crashing. Cost aside, it is just nice not to have to dump perfectly fine water down the drain. We sparge with a tankless heater so we can't really reuse the H2O

Wow, that's amazing. I can't wait to see what this yeast does for me. Sounds like I should pitch half of the container? That's so scary because it is opposite of everything I've done in the past. I usually over pitch since I don't have a microscope to check out the yeast to see how good of a...

Thanks. I have a 7 bbl pitch but homebrewers know what's best so that's why I was looking for advice from you guys. I guess the fermentation will be finished before the dry hopping so I could harvest the yeast before the hopping takes place.

I purchased some Omega 091 a few days ago and are going to be brewing with it tomorrow! I always harvest my yeast and I want to get a good amount from this brew to use as my regular yeast. For that reason, I'm starting out with a non hoppy beer. I'll reuse this yeast for a hoppy NEIPA but...

I've never actually used Omega but I've always imagined that this Lacto I get is really close. It is from a local yeast bank in NC.

Very interesting. This does make a lot of sense. I have not thought about adding ibu's , possibly even making a hoppy blonde to deter souring. The Lacto I am using is a blend of lactobacillus plantarum and brevis.

Thanks for the info. So change up the style and don't add any hops? I've only used Lactobacillious in kettle sours where I add ibu's after the souring.

Saturday night I made a 5L starter for my blonde, which required Kolsch yeast. It was close to midnight when I pitched and the pack of Lactobacillious and Yeast looks very similar. Well after adding in the second pack of yeast to the starter, I realized that the first pack that I dumped into...

Sorry to hijack but I started a kettle sour last night and I'm smelling something today that I don't like. It kind of smells like trash. I opened the lid and it looks like it is fermenting. Never seen this before either and I've kettle soured about 5 or 6 times before. For the lacto ordered...

Thanks for the info! I do save my yeast after each batch. I typically save the yeast after the fermenter has been drained from kegging. I was more less talking about draining 2 L from the bottom of a batch that has been fermenting for only a couple of days. Then use that as a starter for...

Anybody brewed a batch from a few days ago and drain from the fermenter to use that yeast as a starter for the next batch? I have two speidel 16 gallon fermenters and I just filled one of them up last night with a fresh brewed cream ale using the same yeast that I use in my blonde. I am going...

There is so much good info here. Thank you so much for the guidance. My goal is to get this beer to almost look like a glass of paint. There are a couple of breweries locally and plenty of pics on Instagram that shows the almost un natural looking haze. I've always wondered how that is...

I'm trying to work on my NEIPA but I don't seem to get it exactly the way I want it to come out. The brew comes out tasting great and everybody loves it but I call it a Hazy IPA because is isn't super cloudy and the haze goes away after a few weeks. All of my beers get really clear towards the...

Hello. I am start to brew on a 2 bbl herms system and am not sure what to do about yeast. Hopefully somebody has brewed on this scale and wouldn't mind giving me some pointers. I've often been proud of my beer on a keggle system and give most of the credit due to my yeast practice. If I am...

I have a few plate chillers that came with a used herms system that I purchased. These should be fine with most homebrew systems. I have no clue how old they are but I did run water through it and they appear to be.fine internally. I also have a blichmann plate chiller that I only used a...

Sorry to Hijack this but a couple of my friends and myself went in on a 2 bbl system to brew together. I am looking at a lower cost chiller that will get the job done. I can't decide if I should build one with a window unit or buy one new. Is this 1 HP chiller adequate enough for a 2 bbl...

Thanks for the info. I like the idea of saving some from the starter each time. The only concern is that it would require me to make a starter each time. I am on a schedule where I am kegging and brewing on the same day so i'd like to just take some from the slurry to start the next batch...

I have been able to simply add coffee, raspberries, and hops to the keg to make some really interesting beer in my 10g keggle system. However, it always seems that the favor isn't evenly dispersed and doesn't last but a few weeks. Also, it seems that adding the ingredients after the cold crash...

I have been saving my yeast for several generations now, 5+, and storing them in mason jars after I was finished. At first, I was washing the yeast with boiled water that has been cooled to below 80 degrees. However, recently I have just been saving the Trub in a mason jar and making a starter...