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how much yeast did you pitch? what method of aeration did you use? have you taken readings over multiple days?

new belgium's biere de mars has this in the bottle. in that case, they inoculate the beer with brett at bottling. i dont really know what it is though.

under-pitching will result in more esters and phenols. over-pitching will result in less yeast character, or autolysis flavors if it is in the extreme. if you've got a good fresh vial that should be 100 billion cells, which i think is a pretty good pitch. if your yeast is older, make a starter...

underpitching will result in more esters and phenols. overpitching will result in less yeast character, or autoloays flavors if it is in the extreme. if you've got a good fresh vial that should be 100 billion cells, which i think is a pretty good pitch. if your yeast is older, make a starter...

You will get more yeast growth if you use a stir plate, but swirling it will still grow plenty of yeast cells. Check mrmalty.com's yeast calc to make sure you are pitching an appropriate cell count; you may have to make a larger starter to account for your lack of a stir plate.

After 2-3 weeks in primary, the hop sediment should be pretty firmly settled into the trub/yeast cake. When you rack into the bottling bucket, hop sediment probably won't be an issue.

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alright, i will go for a 1.75L starter. thanks!

I am planning on brewing a 5 gal batch of AHS Greenbelt IPA. It will have an OG of 1.066, and that would require a pitch rate of about 230 billion yeast cells. i would rather not buy 3 packets of yeast to get that pitch rate, so i want to make a starter. According to Wyeast's calculator, one...

Okay, update: I checked the calibration of my hydrometer, it reads one or two thousandths too high. I brought the beer into my room where it was around 65-73 degrees F for about 5 days. i was hearing bubbling at the rate of one or two bubbles per hour. i took a hydrometer reading today and it...

id say the temperatures were between mid fifties and low sixties.

I brewed a caribou slobber extract kit three weeks ago and everything went fine on brew day. The OG was 1.052 which was pretty close to where it should have been. I left the fermentor in the basement where it has been pretty cool. I took a specific gravity reading last week and it was 1.021...