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    Introduce myself

    this posted under the wrong post, weird? using the mobile app.
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    Blowoff, first time using washed yeast and a yeast starter.

    Awesome, thanks for the help.
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    Blowoff, first time using washed yeast and a yeast starter.

    Should I pitch the yeast closer to the fermentation temperature? How do I determine how much yeast I will need? Every recipe I have seen said to cool the wort to below 80 and pitch the yeast.
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    Bottled beer seems too carbonated

    I am a new homebrewer too and I had a similar problem with a Bourbon Vanilla Porter. I know it fermented at too high of a temperature producing the "off" flavors and it was too much priming sugar at bottle producing the overcarbonation. What were you brewing? I really suggest reading...
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    Blowoff, first time using washed yeast and a yeast starter.

    This is what was left of the washed yeast I added to the starter because it wouldn't fit in the flask. I had over half a pint of washed yeast in the jar. I don't see any difference in layers other than the thin liquid film on top, this has been settled for 2 weeks. Oh and it blewoff again today...
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    Blowoff, first time using washed yeast and a yeast starter.

    I would say I had around 400ml settled in the yeast starter I made.
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    Blowoff, first time using washed yeast and a yeast starter.

    thanks for the reply. It was a 1000ml starter and it was pitched at 78 degrees.
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    Blowoff, first time using washed yeast and a yeast starter.

    Hello and thanks for reading, I recently brewed using washed yeast and a yeast starter, my first time doing both. The yeast is Wyeast 1056 American Ale, I pitched it at 80 degrees into a glass 6 gallon carboy and controled temperature using chest freezer with a Johnson Controls Digital...
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