Recent content by the_seabass

I'm getting ready to brew a Rye IPA, when I bought the ingredients, the supplier told me I could either do a starter or double pitch, and I decided to just double pitch, since I hadn't done a starter before. Since then I have done my first starter with decent success. I used the calculator...

Follow up... The batch came out just fine, much better than my first two batches. Has little sharpness to it that I wouldn't always expect out of a hef, but I've paid for worse beers, so all in all I call it a win. Thanks for the reassurance, I was so mad when I found it open that I almost...

Thanks for the input, I will go ahead and bottle and see what comes of it! It was in a coat closet (during Texas summer), so it is possible the door was opened once or twice without noticing, but there shouldn't have been much activity in the area. From your comments and what I've read, real...

I brewed a Hefeweizen 3 weeks back and used a starter for the first time. This created more yeast activity than I was used to. I was letting it ferment at a friend's house, so I didn't get a chance to come back and check on it for almost a week, at which point I found it with the airlock popped...