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Read the stickies at the top of the Bottling/Kegging section, covers everything you could possibly want to know from sanitation to carbonation to line balancing and everything in between.

Here is how you do it, you pop open the bottle, pour out about 1/4 to 1/3 of the bottle, gotta make room for the yeast and whatnot. Get a tupperware jar or bucket of some sort and urinate in it, no joke. With this method you don't even have to buy yeast or sugar or anything. Not a lot of...

Thanks for all the responses guys, jigidyjim seems to be most on my level. My understanding is there are two schools of thought when it comes to pitching a starter. One is to cold crash the starter after it has fermented out completely, decant, and pitch the yeast, not my intention due to time...

Yeah Mr. Malty is great but it just gives you a starter size, doesn't advise on the dme to water ratio. It also doesn't have any information regarding the original question which was do I adjust the recipe based on the amount of dme used in the starter?

Hmm, I keep reading different numbers all over the place, not to mention everyone measures in different units.

Yeah makes sense. Also your right 14 oz is way huge, I was in a rush and did it then started doing the math, should have probably been about half that. Oh well live and learn, thanks for the input.

Hey guys, quick question. This is the first time I've made a yeast starter. I'm planning on brewing a Belgian Tripel tomorrow evening with an OG of 1.085 so I figure this was a good brew to try a starter on. Anyway I made a 2 quart starter with about 14 oz. extra light DME. Now my recipe calls...

Hey guys, quick question. This is the first time I've made a yeast starter. I'm planning on brewing a Belgian Tripel tomorrow evening with an OG of 1.085 so I figure this was a good brew to try a starter on. Anyway I made a 2 quart starter with about 14 oz. extra light DME. Now my recipe...

Northern Brewer has Chinook for $17.99/lb. Most of the online LHBS's will have them.

Wow man, I think he was just asking about how to schedule the fermentation and bottling of another batch. He clearly knows how to do an extract batch. No need need to insult extract brewers by telling them how simplified their process is compared to yours. Some people dont have a day to...

Hey all, just curious is it too late to plant rhizomes in Northern Kentucky? It has been unseasonably warm.

Hey guys, been looking in from the outside for about a month now, figured it was time I joined. New homebrewer here in Louisville, KY. Love the site. :mug: