Recent content by tamrielsgirl

Just finished brewing a Stone Enjoy By clone. Used three PurePitch packages of WLP007 Dry English Ale to make a 3L starter for an 11 gallon batch. Threw it into the fermenter at 65 degrees and after about 7 hours it's getting after it! Estimated yeast count around 600B according to BeerSmith calcs.

Honestly.... First. We had a hell of a yeast starter (900 ml ish). I feel at home with microbiology and chem, so I was like, what the heck. And White Labs isn't messing around with their yeast. We have a magnetic stir plate and stirred it for 36ish hours, and then pitched the entire starter...

Okay, I can go purchase some tubing. But before I do, I did happen to get some liquid FoamCapS from MoreBeer. I was just a little wary about putting into our first brew. Will it help at all now or is the blow off tube the best bet? I am a chem major, and I know that the yeast reaction is...

So we brewed an extract kit last night with a morebeer brewing setup. Started with the hale's ales tres fem tart cherry golden ale. This went into the fermenting bucket at approximately 10 pm last night, we woke up at 8 and it had blown the airlock and the lid off the bucket. What.... So is this...