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I left it up to my friend who I brew with frequently to handle to bottling of one of our recent batches. I suppose I should have left him with more specific instructions on priming sugar amounts but what is in the past has past. He says he only used about 1.5oz of priming sugar for a 5gal...

Hello all, Last night I decided to give harvesting and washing my yeast a shot as I was racking a beer out of primary and I figured "why the heck not?". I have been interested in yeast washing for quite a while now and have read many threads and watched several videos on youtube explaining...

First time using WLP039-Nottingham yeast. According to White Labs this yeast has a high flocculation rate, which is something I am unfamiliar with. The attendant at my LHBS told me that if I experience a stuck fermentation that I may need to rouse/agitate the yeast cake back into suspension...

I had a few things go haywire and I was unable to have everything ready to harvest/wash this yeast cake. A friend of mine told me that if I left the cake with a little beer covering it that I would still be able to harvest it within a couple of days. What is the general consensus on this...

I have a couple of concerns about the yeast starter I made up this evening (its my first one...) First, I think I may have pitched a bit too hot. My little thermometer was saying ~85 when I pitched. Am I screwed? Second, I had intended on covering my growler filled with wort/yeast with a...

I was recently given an old cooler converted mash-tun that my friend's Dad no longer intended on using. This will not be my first AG batch, but the first run on this new system. I was wondering if there were any techniques that I should know about for cleaning and sanitising the copper manifold...

Hello HBT! Long time reader, first time poster here. After observing some friends/mentors do their own thing for a few months I decided to go ahead with my first attempt at brewing. The brew went smoothly, and now we're at ~2 weeks into fermentation (I'm just using a 5gal carboy, no...