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I am going to be brewing an old ale OG-1.084, and want a yeast cake to have to dump the old ale onto. I was thinking of brewing a cream stout OG 1.054 first to help grow the yeast. Is that too big for a first beer to use the yeast cake??

OK, weird thing happened. I was tranferring an IPA to a second keg. After transfer I was going to clean the keg the IPA was in. I looked inside to see how much sediment was on the bottom and I saw SOMETHING on the stem. It appears it was in the beer and as I transferred the beer it rode down...

Yorkshire Square yeast was used for an IPA, if one was to do a cream ale would that be a good cake to pitch onto?

A buddy of mine and I brewed a double batch of IPA. We added water to carboys to top off. When we poured the wort in the carboys (mine is marked) we tried to be sure to have the same amount of wort in each. I poured the first 2.5 gallons into mine, then about the same into his, then I sloshed...

New to the site, I have really enjoyed reading all the tips and suggestions here. I seem to always navigate to the fermentation and yeast section. I have read the posts on freezing yeast and washing yeast. Lately I have been making a yeast starter and while pitching, I pour about a half a...