Another tip. When you need to get settled yeast out of a jar, use a stir plate to resuspend the yeast into a pourable liquid. I usually decant most of the clear liquid until I have about 50/50 yeast/liquid left in the jar. Then I place the jar on my stir plate and drop in a sanitized stir bar. I...
Another tip. When you need to get settled yeast out of a jar, use a stir plate to resuspend the yeast into a pourable liquid. I usually decant most of the clear liquid until I have about 50/50 yeast/liquid left in the jar. Then I place the jar on my stir plate and drop in a sanitized stir bar. I...
I guess all the yeast settled out of the beer. I added a punch of dry yeast granules to each bottle and recapped them. In about two weeks it had carbed up nicely. The bubbles are bigger than they usually are with corn sugar though, so that's probably one of the characteristics of priming with...
Hi there! I am a new extract home brewer, started this year. I am on my fifth batch. This post is about my last batch, which is a Honey Brown ale. The recipe is from iBrewmaster, which is an excellent app. Here's the recipe, slightly modified from their recipe.
5 gallon batch
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