Recent content by japeda

Thanks guys, still bubblin away slowly. couchsending, I'm pretty excited to experiment with the new temperatures and what it does to beer. And mostly excited to have more control during the warm summer months. I probably shouldn't have been as worried as I was with the slow fermentation of this...

Yea, as simple as that. I've had good results just dipping a sanitized mason jar into the yeast cake and scooping up yeast and some of the beer on top (not trub on bottom). Then I'll keep that in the fridge for a week or so until I next brew. Take it out morning of brew day to slowly rise to...

Lagging fermentation troubleshoot- I brewed a batch two nights ago, same as I usually do. OG was 1.054, the yeast (6oz of yeast from a local brewery, freshly harvested) had slowly risen to my basement temperature (60F) and everything seemed to be good, just like my normal process. The biggest...