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Going to brew my annual wee heavy with Wyeast 1728. I typically grow up my yeast from a fresh pack but I'd like to repitch this time. Does anyone have any good recommendations for a lower gravity beer using this yeast? Particularly, anything that's not just the average Scottish 60/70/80?

What color are you going for with the chocolate addition? If you're looking for an amberish pale ale, C120 with an extended boil can help do the trick as well.

I live in MN and have about 5 months of lager temps in my garage. I'm considering building some sort of chamber out of 2x4's, plywood, and rough insulation as a space in my garage to store kegs of beer that are lagering or in need of cold storage. If I wired up an STC-1000 to a heating...

I'm going to brew my first Baltic Porter this week with the grist loosely based on Jamil's recipe from BCS. I like the way the grain bill looks but I don't have the hops he lists. What would be a good hop for a Baltic Porter? I have Hallertau, Perle, Liberty, German Magnum, and quite a few...

Spend 5-6 bucks on an accurate gram scale for hops, 15-20 building your own carbon filter, and then the last 25 on an extra stc-1000. You can never have enough controlled fermentation space.

What adjustments did Jamil recommend?

I've never used WLP007 before but I want to give it a try for my IPAs in the future. What beers would you recommend brewing with this yeast for the first few generations before repitching later to an IPA? I'm looking for something with low gravity and that's tasty to start with.

If you do end up with 70% efficiency, what's wrong with that? You might spend an extra dollar or two in base malt but you will be consistently hitting your numbers.

My practice is to dispose of any unused wort. You spend so much time and effort making the wort sterile, that I would hate to open it to infection while in the fridge and after being opened. Plus there's a lot of break material in the last 100-200 ml that I throw away anyways.

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Yes, but you'll want to make sure there's enough pressure in the keg to seat the lid. If there's no oxygen coming in, you can lager at cold temps for a long time.