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Fascinating. Will they bind to a concrete wall. If I let them grow up, they can climb to my upstairs neighbours without twine or a trelis.

I am up on a balcony on the 4th floor. Do hops like to grow downward? Up and over the balcony? It will look like the hanging gardens of Babylon. (I will bribe the tenants below with homebrew to keep them happy about the plants.)

Okay. I think I will get that yeast and then keep do the washing to reuse that yeast.

I have been trying to cultivate the yeast from a bottle of Weihenstephaner wheat beer. One bottle. I read somewhere that the bottling yeast might not be the same as the fermentation yeast. Would that be the case here? I got the yeast from the bottom of the bottle -- not the yeast in...

Update. I broke open a bottle and tasted -- this 5 days after bottling. The yeast did its job, good carbonation. Tasted a little young. One more weeks should do it. So bottle after 2 weeks and wait 1-1/2 weeks you have quite drinkable beer 3.5 weeks. Actually, I think this is going to be a good...

I added the photo. You can see the thin layer at the bottom. Is that enough for a starter? I have 3 jars of them though.

Attached is a picture of one of three jars of yeast I cleaned. This is yeast is a the Safbrew wheat beer yeast. I swirled the trub with cooled boiled water in the primary fermenter, but a lot settled. The liquid was cloudy -- but I guess a lot of the yeast wheat into the bottling bucket with the...

A low gravity blonde Belgian. 5.1%

Against standard practice I decided to try bottle right after final gravity is reached without waiting for the beer in the primary to clear. The reason I did this is that I wanted a shorter production time. I reasoned that 1. I whirlfloc and I begin the brew with a very clear wort so most...

Yes. It never sank back. It became the krausen until it blew out the blow off. With the vigorous shaking I do now -- I always get blow off. I leave the the carboy open and rock and roll in on a lacross ball == you can use a tennis ball. It foams. The wort is very clear, but it foams -- I am...

I should have taken pictures. I don't strain. I Use whirfloc, then I use the immersion chiller then whirpool, cover all in the boil kettle. I wait about 1/2 hour, I siphon off the very clear liquid and get barely any trub in primary. I aerate and pitch yeast. Then I pour the trub from kettle...

More precisely I am curious to see if off flavors and hops are easier to taste in a dryer beer.

I am curious as to whether the theory of what it should taste like with late extract matches the final outcome. It is all for experimentation. Maybe I might enjoy this new one more.

I brewed my usually ale (Belgian ale yeast -- no candied sugar additions, hopped 20 IBUs) recipe, but this time I did late extract addition. With a 6lb all pilsner extract I put 1lb at the beginning of the boil. At 20 minutes I put in the remainder and let it boil backup. (Advice: boil overs are...

I have brewed 5 batch. Every batch was good drinking, if I let it age out after bottling. Haven't found anything better commercial. There is something about homebrewing. First, I think it is because it is pure barely or wheat malt, no corn. 2) I think it is the case that the beer does not...

I conditioned my beer for five weeks in the fermenter (rather than 3). It tasted great, but flat just before it went in the bottles. I thought that since it tasted great going in, it should taste great in the bottle. Didn't expect the beer to have to go through the whole conditioning process...

They looked like tiny white snowflakes. If I tap the bottles, the flakes start dropping to the bottom. Most bottles have it -- to varying degrees.

Hi, Out of curiosity I taste my beer at different stages of bottling. At the point of bottling I taste the beer that I have used to take gravity. At this stage the beer always (so far) tasted pretty good except that it is flat. I taste after bottling for a week. And the taste is quite...

I bottled and primed my beer. I noticed that now (two weeks) there are floating solids at the top of the beer. If I shake the bottle little the solids fall out and sink to the bottom. I didn't notice this in the previous batches. Is this the bottle carbonation equivalent of krausen?

What is the purpose of draining the ice water? Had the ice completely melted. If not the water should still be cold enough. When you drain and add tap water that tap water is warmer than the ice bath and thus the heat gradient will be less.