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What is the best way to avoid this?

Hence why wrote “if that’s the case” I questioned it in my post. Didn’t say it was gospel

I recently read this hop is trademarked (or whatever the appropriate term is). If that’s the case, it will be very difficult to get your hands on it.

I ate lavender ice cream once upon a time that tasted like chewing on pot pourri. Never again will I think lavender as an edible item is a good idea. Batch: 3 - 2-row smash. Fist sip at bottling tasted exactly like the subtle rotten meat bite I ate in Costa Rica and promptly spent 6 days...

Hahaha! I momentarily blanked when I was sprinkling the yeast and poured too much. I would have thought it would have had the opposite effect though, showing more action quicker. Not almost nothing.

Thanks for the clarification!

When you remash your grain from your batch of beer. Also know as parti-gyle. I make starter wort and actually pretty tasty beer by remashing my grain. Lets me experiment with yeast and hops and do a moderate comparison with the first runnings. I’d you brew a high gravity first beer you can get a...

What are people’s experiences with omega’s 113 and s-23. I’m deciding between those for a Mexican lager. Half the batch will be pepper lime in secondary

I like tettnanger better too unfortunately I had run out. I’m curious how the comp goes.

My kolsch is now on the stove. Thanks for the help. I opted for splitting the batch with half Pilsner base and half two row. Figured I may as well decide which I like better. 73% base, 18 % Vienna and 4.5% Carafoam. The latter two were supposed to be half as much but I had a brain slip at 6am...

I put all my bottles in their original boxes and then heavy duty rubber maid containers to keep It safer. (unless they are in the fridge). The OG is stable so I figured this shouldn’t happen if it’s not fermenting any more. I could be very wrong though

Thanks. I have a few kegs just not enough room for as many as I like. Second runnings generally end up in a bottle and I’m less concerned about them. They are for experimenting with hops and yeasts so I figure out the flavour profiles better. I may just transfer to a 1 gallons and be done.

I’m pretty green when it comes to brewing and trying to remember all the information can be tough. Isn’t cold crashing going to help with the trub and yeast dropping out? Or is it just yeast that will drop out with colder temp

A lot of what I have read suggests notty and Windsor are done in a week, which was partly why I did the second runnings. I need the carboy. I take it this is not correct? I generally let me y beers sit for apx 3 weeks, but there was intention to finish quick with using this yeast

I have been looking at recipes for a kolsch. off the top of my head, Palmer's book says ~7 lbs pilsner, 3.3 lbs vienna. Brewing classic styles says ~10 lbs Pilsner, 0.25 Lbs vienna. Radical brewing doesn't have a specific Kolsch recipe just blonde ale's. The internet is somewhere between this...

Yeah. I figured it wasn’t prior to my gravity reading. I was pretty surprised by the reading considering what I had read about notty gave me the impression it works pretty vigorously.

ha That does not surprise me at all, and also something I have suspected.

that's good to know. Do you think I should be concerned that I opened the carboy given the lack of femrentation at this point? Or will there be enough residual CO2 and fermentation that the head space will get full again and O2 won't be an issue. i am bottling sunday-ish

I wasn't expecting that. 1.016 reading on my hydrometer. There was almost no indication anything happened, beyond the thin layer of bubbles forming on the surface. The lack of krausen you read is a Notty thing? I've read that you have to becareful it doesn't blow out the airlock (i don't think I...

I am sure this has been discussed on this website I just can't find it. I have seen lots of fermentation completion time, temp and attenuation talk, but not fermentation start time. I have a apx 2 gal nut brown second runnings at 1.040 that hasn't done much in 4 days. I use the 2nd runnings to...