Recent content by mgrosso

just saw your post and yeah ill hold off and not use the safale. Thanks for the advice!

yeah I used the online yeast pitch rate calculator and it seems I might need to step up to maybe even a larger starter3-4 liters in 3 steps. Would this be ideal or would it be better to go to 2-3 liters and then use the dry yeast or maybe even the 4 liter starter and the safale pkg?

yeah its the largest OG I have dealt with but I was kind of excited about this strain as well. So I can step up to 3 litres. What rate would you recommend increasing the size of the starter? Should I not include the safale pkg? I am using a homeade aerator similar to a wine aerator. no direct O2...

Ok so I was planning on using this pack of seasonal Burton IPA yeast WY1203 that I recently aquired but being made in january I was worried about its viability. I am going to make a yeast starter but I also have a package of safale US-05. I was considering two options: make a starter of 1L then...

I bottled my American IPA about 3 weeks ago and used about 4 oz of dextrose for the 4 gallon batch. The main problem is that the temperature has varied a Lot while I was gone. The temp varied in storage from 33-72 degF with an average temp of about 50. Now these beers are flat and I was...

I am constructing my HLT and I have a keggle and a 1/2" 50' refrigerator copper coil. I wasn't sure what the best fittings were to use with the inlet and outlet for the coil. Although my coil says 1/2" it appears that most regular straight pipe 1/2" copper fittings are much to big for the soft...

Just made a all grain batch version of thunderstruck pumpkin ale but didn't realize what I was doing when I added 3 oz of kent Golding to my five gallon batch. It is in primary now and I am about to switch it into secondary today. Is there anyway I can up the sweetness or something to counteract...

OG was1.058 and FG was 1.011 it's an Irish red that calculator said I should have used 2.7 oz of corn sugar for 2 volumes of CO2. Since its only been two days I was thinking about waiting a day or two putting one in the fridge and seeing how carbonated it is.

I accidentally added 5 oz of dextrose to my 4 gallon batch and bottled it two days ago. Is this way too much or can I just put the bottles in the refrigerator sooner that normal?

Yeah thanks I didn't think it was a problem when I poured it in. I just wanted to make sure because I started to second guess myself.

I Got the wort down to a 70 for the yeast to grow safely then accidentally added the yeast before i out the wort in the fermenter. After racking the wort into the primary fermenter I poured a little bit of sediment into the fermenter worried about getting all of the yeast. Now my primary concern...