Recent content by sbcallstar

Straight from the brewery, I had a friend drive out from the west coast for the holidays, the bottles I had were loaded with yeast. Doesn't much matter if its just WLP001 I guess

Ha ha ha! Just my luck!

+10 American Wheat +10 Brown ale +10 Double IPA +10 Sweet Stout +5 Citra IPA = 8020.5

Forgot to mention that I pitched last night around 7pm and had krausen in the 1 1/4" blow off tube at 6am this morn, VERY active Also, if the yeast is contaminated, would it be worthwhile to pitch some more yeast that I know to be good?

I followed some steps I found on here and had a good sized starter. It did smell a LITTLE sour, not vinegar or cheesy, and not that strong really. I kinda wondered if anyone has done this with Pliny or other Russian River beers. And if it had any of that similar odor. Nothing to do now but...

Thanks Clann, I appreciate your input! I'm surprised at the activity already, I've had good luck with the dry yeast so far...

Thats what I figured, definitely wasnt gonna dump it, just hoped someone had done the same thing before, and could let me know how it turned out. thanks ACbrewer!

Just went and checked on it, and I have activity after just 4 hours. swirling and bubbling a little already...

Hi, I justed finished my second batch, a Belgian Carmel Wit. My first was an IPA, turned out great. Anyway, what I did, without even thinking about it, was taste a little sample that I pulled from the cooled wort, then I dumped it into my yeast mix (I used dry yeast, warm it up...