Holy moley. It's a good thing I am on a stir plate or else I might launch the lid off my starter. 1.5L starter with recently harvested Bell's yeast from a Pale Ale. I guess I am good to go with my Two Hearted clone this weekend! :rockin:
But did that starter take 15 or 20!! minutes to make?
I just follow Revvy's advice and use Goya [pop the cap and pour]. So it actually only took about 1 minute.
Well I can see how that would be daunting to newcomers!
did you try to -uncarbonate- the malta goya?
I just follow Revvy's advice and use Malta Goya [pop the cap and pour]. So it actually only took about 1 minute.
Perfect timing. Saturday I brewed an all Citra IPA using harvested yeast from Bells two Hearted. I stepped up the yeast 3 times over 2 weeks before pitching on Sat. Had some concerns, but lots of activity in the carboy after 18 hours, the yeasties look to be feading raveneously. OG was 1.058, where do you think my target FG should be? Around 1.018 or so?
I don't know. All-grain? It's supposed to be a pretty good attenuator. Maybe lower depending on your mash temp.
I wish. DME late extract method, if it makes a difference.
it should attenuate like 1056/s-05 or thereabouts. it's definitely an aggressive yeast. i'll be taking my first FG reading on my IPA with Bell's yeast later today, so i can post back the results. there's also a few other threads around here on harvested Bell's yeast with guys posting results and some other good info about cell count in different types of Bell's beer bottles. just searching 'Bell's yeast harvest' or something similar on these forums should get you a bunch of good info.
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