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I'm sure this has been answered, but I'm having trouble finding it. I washed some Wyeast 1056, and I now have 3 1 liter jars of it. I'm going to make EdWort's Rye IPA this weekend, and I'd like to use the washed yeast. However, I have no idea how much to use, and if I should be making a starter...

I recently got a new Bosch, too. I can't quantify the energy use, but it only uses around 5 gallons of water on a load. Not too bad. I've tried sanitizing bottles with the DW and with a bucket of star san. The DW is MUCH less work for me. It takes more time in planning ahead (make sure the DW...

Like I said, I don't doubt that it's a software glitch. I'm not sure how to give you a link. I use a plug in called The Tracktor that gives me a graph of price histories on every Amazon product page. It's amazing, and everyone who uses Amazon should have it. I use it with Chrome. Not sure if...

Looks like it was an error with the Amazon price tracking software. It's not showing that anymore. Edit: Huh, it's still showing that with some of the colors. It may be wrong, but it says that from Jan through early Nov, it was $19, and then it went up to $93. It's the splash proof model...

Anyone know why Thermapens jumped from $19 to $93 a few weeks ago on Amazon?

Reading through this, it makes me feel fortunate that none of my friends or family are BMC drinkers. Many are even beer snobs. Mostly I've just been getting very shocked responses that my beer is as good or better than micros. My FIL keeps asking if it's safe, and he initially asked if it was...

It sounds like it varies quite a bit based on the water. As Gwitz mentioned, you can test the viability with pH strips. However, other members here have reported batches lasting for years and remaining under pH 3.

The blow off tube won't prevent the krausen from leaving your fermentor. However, it will give the stuff somewhere to go without making a huge mess. Just make sure the other end of your blow off tube is sitting in a vessel with sanitizer. Use a big enough vessel that it can hold some of the blow...

How did you sanitize the siphon and tubing? I sanitize mine by siphoning some star san right before I use it. That also functions as a test to make sure it's working properly.

Mashing 20.4 lbs at 1.5 qts/lb means your mash of 7.65 gal will give you 5.1 gallons into the kettle. Sparging with 2.2 gallons brings you up to 7.3 gallons in the kettle. If you want to sparge with more water, you'll need to boil longer to get the water volume back down.

I'm late to the party, and I don't have a recipe, but this made me think of Levitation Ale from Stone. It's 4.4%, so a little stronger than you had in mind, but it's pretty flavorful for being so light. I imagine a recipe could be found for it.

It is telling you that your starter needs to be 4.19 liters, and that you should pitch 2 packets into your starter. That's everything you need to pitch into your fermentor. There is a slider at the bottom of the calculator, btw. If you only wanted to use 1 pack, you could make a 10.38 liter...

My wife is concerned about the safety of me holding a fixed carboy brush while I spin a glass carboy at 1500 rpms.

There's $31 for the copper alone. Throw in a few bucks for a brass fitting or two, some clamps, and a little bit of tubing, and it's right in the neighborhood of what I paid for mine from my LHBS.

These days, it's pretty difficult to buy the parts for an immersion chiller for much less than they cost pre-built. I was going to build one, but after I realized I was just going to break even (at best), I bought one pre-built. Copper is just too expensive.

+5 gallons Red IPA 37,298.5

I'm brewing another 5 gallons of Red IPA. My wife, who samples a lot of beer, but NEVER has a whole glass, is going to polish off my last batch of it in no time.

I'm guessing those are from freshops, since I've got the same thing. I've also got some Magnum from them that is 20.5%.

Google translated the ebay page for me, and it gave me this: I think you need to go for it.

I was just thinking of boiling time as it relates to boil off, not anything that happens to the stuff that remains.