Recent content by felixsth

I asked directly to wyeast and they told me I would be ok with 10 packs.

Hi, I got a used 60 gallon port wine barrel and I want to age some flanders red in it. I want to know how many packs of wyeast roeselare should I pitch? They recommend not making a starter so I cannot grow from one pack. Do I really need like 12 packs since it's made for 5 gallon batches? Thanks

Hi, I plan on brewing an Imperial Stout (no recipe yet). I want to add cranberries to it once fermentation is done. The thing is I plan on aging it for 3-4 months, I want to know if I add the cranberries and let them for the whole 3-4 months or I just add them like 2 weeks before...

I have a simple question, if I look at what mr. malty tells me, I would need 3 packs of dry yeast for 10 gallons of beer at 1.080, approx 550 billions cells, Would it hurt anything to make a starter with one pack to reach those 550 billions cells? I ask because I don't want to take 3 packs for...

if I put a small fan at the end of the tube maybe it can pull enough air so the vapor don't fall back in the beer

My kitchen fan doesn't work and anyway it would not be enough since i'm brewing 10 gallons and the fan is really small and just push the air back in trough a filter.

Hi, it's my first brewing winter, I boil inside in a keg with a water heater element, normally I just boil with the door open to let the vapor go out, but now in quebec it's almost -10 C and it can get to -30C easily. Letting the door open for the whole boil/cooling is out of question ( I tried...

soak vanilla beans in a little vodka for some time and add that to secondary fermentation, not sure about the quantity of vanilla beans, I think 1 bean is enough for 5 gallons if you dont want to overwhelm it.

Thanks, I think I'm gonna stick with my way of doing it. I have everything needed to make a starter so I will try one day, maybe harvest from a bottle or something like that.

I just want to know if my procedure is normal. I harvest slurry from the fermenter maybe since my last 10 batches, I did with some US-05, S-04, S-33 and T-58. I normaly harvest 1 mason jar when I transfer to secondary and put that in the beer fridge. When it's time to brew I just put some of the...

could you send the link to the PP bulkhead, just to be sure to buy the right thing, Thank you