Recent content by bratrules

It's going to take a few days to for that yeast to wake up. And 3 gallons is a lot of wort for amount of yeast. Just give it more time. You should see activity in a few days.

It's in my freezer.

Well am getting my going to get my house fumigated this weekend. I was wondering if my yeast bank will be OK with the bags provided by the company. Or should I just take them with me?

Anybody?

Am making a hibiscus mango brew and I want to know what's the best method of sanitizing the hibiscus. I'm using 1 pound of hibiscus for a 5 gallon batch. I don't want to boil the hibiscus cuz I don't want to extract all of its flavor. Can I just use star-san?

Very nice write up!!

I think 70-72 is to warm for SF lager yeast I like to keep it in low 60 high 50's. Is 72 your ambient temperature? You got to remember that you're fermentation is going to create heat also. So you can reach temps of 75 or more. You can't use a swap cooler method to keep temps down?

Nice work!! am also a avid cheese maker. Am planing a clothbound cheddar soon. Hey can i ask why you brined your cheddar instead of adding salt to the curds?

Anytime. and just use the calculator provided in the link above and you be fine.

I would just use plain old cane sugar. I had a similar thing happened to me when I use to bottle I ended up using cane sugar in it worked great and I never went back to corn sugar again. As far as dry malt extract going bad I don't think it does. If you don't watch out it will turn hard as a...

I always do starters for lagers. Very essential to pitch the right amount of yeast for lager. Or for any brew for that matter. Next time do a huge starter. And use a yeast calculator to give you a estimate of yeast cells to pitch. For now I would pick up a pack or two of dry lager yeast just in...

Thanks for the info. I haven't got them yet but my brother in law has them. As soon I get here I will post a pic.

Wow 35lbs really. But do you think the smaller one is a 10lb one?? I need something that I could fit in my kegerator.

Well here is the pic i was talking about. I couldn't figure out how to upload this thing from my phone using the app. Anyway here it is They told me that they are in great working order since they were used at a restaurant about two weeks ago but the place closed down. So now i guess i have...

I was try to add the pics with my phone. It didn't seem to work but I post one later from the computer. Well it turns out its 2 20lbs and 1 10lb. I made a deal with the guy for 30 bucks for all. He also said that they were used in a resturant 2 weeks ago so they are still good.