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I made a yeast starter about 4 days ago but couldn't brew as planned. Put it in the fridge with a foam stopper and took it out to pitch tonight. Seeing a few white floating things, so I am worried about infection. Not sure how clear these pics come out, but should I be worried about this...

Brewed an IPA today with a eBIAB setup. I did 2 things different - i didnt use a hop bag and kust put them in the wort directly and I used a new mash bag that has much finer holes. My element had a lot of black on it, it looked burnt. I didn't smell anything during the boil, but as it is...

I'm trying to troubleshoot why my eBIAB system can't get a rolling boil for about 4 gallons of water. I'm using a ~14 in wide pot with a 2000W element plugged into 110v eBIAB build found on this site. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f170/110v-recirculating-ebiab-2-5-gallon-batches-341219/...

Not sure this is the right forum, but it's caused by my electric setup, so here goes... I recently finished building a 120V 2000W Recirculating eBIAB system (using all the great advice / schematics on here) and cannot get a rolling boil with my pot. I'm using this element that seems to have...

Some of my silicone tubing had gone through quite a bit of use and then sat around in my garage for awhile. I was using my pressure cooker to santize a few other things anyway, so thought I would throw the tubing in as well just to completely sanitize it. When I took it out, the tubing had...

Is there any general guidance on how much yeast viability is lost when yeast is out of refrigeration for a day? I always wonder how much viability is lost when I order yeast online -- it's about 2 days from package time until it's in my hand and I order an ice pack but I'm not sure how long...

I received some slurry from a local brewery about a month ago -- I never washed it and it separated into some nice thick yeast on the bottom and beer above it. It has been in the fridge the entire time since I got it. Shortly after I brought it home, it formed a new krausen and I couldn't...

I got some yeast slurry from a local brewery last week, but wasnt abke to use it right away. It was just put into a sanitized mason jar with star san. The owner told me it was real active and to be careful with it. It was mostly yeast with a little beer mixed in and they slowly separated more...

My local brewery is giving away some yeast tonight and I was thinking of grabbing some. I'm not sure I have time to pressure cook a jar and let it cool before it gets too late (or if it's even worth that trouble). If I sanitize a jar with some starsan, should that be sufficient for storing...

Was making a small starter today for some previously washed yeast in a pint jar -- not thinking, I poured the full pint (water and all) since it seemed like the water was getting cloudy -- assumed there were yeast getting suspended. That brought my gravity from about 1.036 down to 1.022...

I woke up this morning to my WLP001 starter (2.25L in a 3L flask) overflowing and spilling out the side of my flask. I caught it just as it was happening, so really didn't have much actual foam/liquid loss. I'm curious though, how much of an impact taking this off the stir plate for the rest...

I am looking to make a 1L starter, and have a 3L Erlenmeyer Flask that will be on a stir plate. The 1L mark is pretty low on this relative to total height -- is there going to be any issues with how much surface area there is in terms of it drying out too much over a few days? Will it make...

I've read through a lot of threads on washing yeast from the carboy, creating yeast banks, etc -- but didn't find a lot of info on what I'd like to do. I'd like to take some yeast vials I have in the fridge and build up a collection of 2nd generation yeast to be used in starters later on -- I...