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  1. cjteteak

    Idiot Sauvin base IPA recipe request

    I want to brew something similar to Elysian's Idiot Sauvin IPA, which features Nelson Sauvin hops, but I want to play with the hops a little in a split batch. I'm hoping that one of you out there with a more discerning tongue could suggest a good base recipe to work off of for this idea...
  2. cjteteak

    High Krausen Twice?

    Fermenting in a glass carboy for the first time and am loving getting to watch the vigorous fermentation. However, with new experiences come new questions... Is it a normal thing to see a high krausen rise then fall (albeit not completely) then rise again higher than the first time? Brewed...
  3. cjteteak

    How to get a firm, tight, compact.....yeast cake.

    Question: I seem to run into the problem of soft and runny yeast cakes which can make racking a bit more tedious. I've seen some people with cakes so tight you could bounce a quarter off them:cool:. They just rest their racking cane or siphon right on top of the trub and if I did that it would...
  4. cjteteak

    Liquidy/soft yeast cake - bottling

    When racking to my bottling bucket yesterday I noticed my yeast cake at the bottom was fairly runny (like oatmeal) and not as hard/compact as I see in all the videos/pictures. So when I was siphoning I had a really hard time trying to keep a clear flow and wasn't able to siphon off the last half...
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