Recent content by steben64

Brewday Bump! Did a gravity reading of the starter last night and it looks to be about 1.014 from 1.055. I'll be brewing a simple recipe 8lb Marris Otter 4lb Munich 2lb Crystal 30 2oz Fuggles(5.7%) at 60 mins I've included some photos of the starter. Sorry for potato quality, not a steady...

Yeah I harvested it from my kitchen which is also my brewhouse certain days of the month lol. Like I said, this is low risk for me since Ill only be spending a couple dollars on hops and thats it.

Took a gravity reading. After 7 days it has gone from 1.055 to 1.015. Im wondering if I should brew and pitch this soon while the microorganisms(hopefully mostly yeast) are still very active or if I should just wait for everything to floc out completely after another week.

Smells both fruity and funky. Different, but definitely not stomach churning.

Oh I will definitely post results if I go through with this. How long should I let this wort propagate for before I brew and pitch it? It's been about 6 days since I've started this exbeeriment.

So far the scent isn't bad, though with the krausen at the top, I'm mostly smelling hops right now. I don't see any mold and the fermentation appears quite typical. I mainly want to do this as an experiment since I've always been most interested in the yeast itself. I'm mainly here to make sure...

So I brewed the other day and after siphoning into the fermenter I had about a half gallon of wort left. I decided to take a sanitized mason jar and scoop up a pint of hopped wort to try to harvest yeast. I've observed spontanious fermentation before when accidentally leaving my hydrometer...