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Thanks for the reassurance. It was indeed 1056.

You mean high gravity (as in sugar content)? (Krausen, I think, is the foam produced by the action of the yeast, and comes later.)

Thanks for the answers here. If the reason for the smack pack is just to demonstrate the yeast is viable, that seems an elaborate means to demonstrate something that must be true 99% of the time.

Both were swolled, but the "nutrition" packs inside were intact, so it hadn't been smacked.

I'm using Wyeast for the first time. Someone explain the smack pack concept to me. Is this a way of packaging less yeast and making up for it by having the yeast multiply with the smacking? My package was inflated, presumably with CO2, and couldn't be smacked. When I pitched it, the smack pod...

Thanks for the feedback here. Kegging does seem like a time-saver, both in bottling and dealing with empties, but I drink at most one bottle every other day.

I still consider myself a novice brewer, but I've made 9 batches, now, all IPA's. Each batch gets better, and the last few have been excellent. Lately, I've simplified things greatly yet the beer continues to improve, and I find myself wondering if the things I've eliminated are more in the...

I have no interest in culturing or saving yeast. I don't brew beer that often.

According to the White Labs website, I still need 2 pouches for my original gravity of 1.078, so I guess I don't believe the new pouches are twice as big as the old.

I've been using White Labs California Ale Yeast WLP001 for my IPA. I'm happy with it, but they've repackaged it in a plastic-ridden "Pure Pitch" pouch and doubled the price. Since I use two pouches for my recipe, the price increase is significant. The new pouch doesn't offer anything that I can...

I made a batch of ale and bottled it with two kinds of bottles--capped Sierra Nevada bottles, and Grolsch-style swing-cap bottles. The beer in the capped bottles is pale (I used pilsner malt), clear, and nicely carbonated, while the beer in the swing-cap bottles is darker, murky, and rather...