Recent content by tim-c-barnes

I did make a starter. I was concerned that the age of the yeast I used (about 40 days old from date of packaging) may have lowered the viable yeast cell count too much so I made an 1800ml starter and left it on the stir plate for 3 days. I actually rigged up a way to heat the chamber...

I'll give Those suggestions a try. Unfortunately I'm on the coast in CA and during this time of the year in location it barely gets to 70, usually more like mid 60's. But I'll try insulating it. I don't remember the exact yeast I used other than it was from wyeast and labeled as dennys favorite.

Thank you Denny! Unfortunately my fermentation chamber is an old refrigerator connected to a temperature control thermometer and I don't have any equipment installed to heat the chamber up, only to kick the power on and cool it down if it gets too hot. I'll look into my options as far as that...

It's been going up and down between 64 and 68 over the course of each day.

Hey folks, So I just brewed this recipe about 8 days ago following the instructions pretty closely with some minor changes in hop additions etc. Landed my OG at 1.073 and pitched a 1.8 liter starter I made from a 40ish day old smack pack of Denny's Favorite. Everything was great for the...