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Yea, I pulled my washed yeast straight from the fridge and put it in 70-80 degree water. Maybe some shock? Pour yeasties.......services will be this Sunday, followed by a swift burial....

What do you use for your starter then? And how long to you let the started sit? Hours? Overnight? I saw ZERO activity, which is why I thought it was a big bust.

I have some Nottingham yeast that I washed from my Fat Tire clone. I had the idea of using washed beer yeast to make bread. I've made beer bread before, but beer yeast....? Thought it would be a fun little experiment. So on Saturday, with the help of SWMBO, I went to work. She uses dry yeast...

You must be the long lost love-child of MacGyver and Jonathon Goldsmith (Dos XX most interesting man in the world). I will assume that although he did not have a hand in your conception, I feel Chuck Norris and the Old Spice guy were probably present. Let me know if I'm close...

I have a question. Last night, for the first time, I decided to wash and keep some Nottingham yeast. I think did a pretty good job and it's sleeping nicely in my fridge as I type. My question is, how much of the yeast in my mason jar should I use when pitching it into another beer? I'm assuming...

Sounds good. Just PM me if you ever get one or a couple spare, let me know how much, and I'll take care of the shipping as well.

Anyway you could get a couple more and ship 'em out my way? I'd pay the shipping of course.

Hmm....I don't know if having only 3 gallons of water is your problem though. I only boil 2.5 gallons of water when I do all my extracts. After adding my extract I'm around 3 gallons. By the end of the 60 minute boil I'm back around 2-2.5 gallons. So your situation kind of stumps me......sorry man.

I hate to make you white a novel on the forum, but what went wrong? I brewed this 3 weeks ago (mini mash) and it went really good. Just thought I would ask what you had problems with.

If your going to leave you're beer for a long period of time I would suggest getting some oxygen absorbing caps. I used them once for a beer that sat for quite a while. Beer still tasted fine so I'm assuming the caps helped.

+1 for your info on the TAD and Miller Draft systems! A couple weeks ago I picked up 4 TAD bottles from Midwest Supplies but then I read your info on the Miller system. Stopped by the local liqueur stop and they had them. Picked one up and been slowly drinking on it. The thing I really wanted...

No.......:( But kind of. I only have two fermenting buckets. Both are full so if I put my Cream Ale into the secondary to add vanilla, then I can brew more beer! That sounds like a good enough excuse to me! :mug:

So last weekend I brewed a Liberty Cream Ale (extract) from Midwest Supplies. My original gravity was dead center of what the instructions said it was suppose to be (I don't have my notes in front of me so I don't remember what my OG was, but I know I was spot on). It sat 7 days in the primary...

I've been thinking about kegging for a while now. I'm not sure when I'll make the leap, but from reading off of HDT, everyone says when they went to kegging, they've never looked back. My question is, what all will I need? I have looked into the homebrew kegging kits on kegconnection.com but...

Well, an inch of headspace in the TAD bottles is more volume than an inch of space in a bottle (neck), so it will be a difference.

I would say just let it go the 7-10 days, then transfer. I found out the hard way that I transferred too early and even after pitching new yeast I couldn't get it to come down much more. I wasn't too far off anyway. If I were you I would just plan on ALLLL the fermenting happening in the...

You're profile shows u live in Malaysia so I don't know what shipping is for you, but I get my TAD bottles from Midwest Supplies (TAD System). I only live about 5 hours away from their warehouse so shipping isn't that bad for me. The reason I suggest them is you can get bottles cheaper from...

Yes, you can get just one tap and when you finish one bottle just put the tap on the next one. Unless you would like to have a couple different brews in the bottles and a couple tapped at the same time. As far as the carbonation goes.....I still haven't opened my TAD bottles for the first time...

HA! Copy cat! Only kidding....but I did the same thing last week. Ran to my LHBS and picked up another bucket. Yesterday I ordered some more tap-a-draft mini kegs so I would have someplace to put it all in a couple weeks!

Only 3 weeks ago and you're already into it? What did you do? 1 week primary, 2 weeks in the bottle?