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How many batches have you made? Are you tweaking your recipe at all?

Interesting... I had another bottle tonight, about two weeks since I bottled it, and it has come around quite nicely. More apple-ness. I like!

I've only had one bottle thus far, and it was good. It's quite dry, but I like that. It bears worth repeating what you said up front (emphasis mine):"I modified Brandon O's Graff recipe and came up with something that I really like. I call it Ffarg Apple Ale because it is pretty much the...

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Bottling my first batch of this tonight - as soon as I clean the kitchen.

I'd think so, yeah. It never ever hurts to use more yeast... poke around Google for 'yeast propagation' and 'yeast population dynamics' to see why using more yeast is better than using less.

That's a lot of airspace for the yeast to consume, so it might just be that. When you rehydrated the yeast, were you satisfied with the appearance of it before you pitched it - as in, did it froth up? Everything else sounds good.

Can you pull the container out of the garbage and list the ingredients in the frozen concentrate? There might have been preservatives that are hampering things. What temperature was the wort when you pitched the yeast? Was it dry yeast? If so, did you rehydrate it first? Did you make a 5...

Throwback, huh? Cool, something to check out next time I'm there!

So? Whatdja do in/around Portsmouth?

I often use an ounce... don't sweat it!

Like I said, it's a starting point. They have a $65 model - http://www.onsetcomp.com/products/data-loggers/u10-001

A blogger down the road from me wrote this post last year, so the model she references might not be the latest and greatest (or even the best choice for you), but it's a starting point: New Toy « Cold House Journal

Kittery Trading Post is just over the state line, and is a pretty cool place to check out. It's like LL Bean, but... different. A few miles down Route 1 is Seabrook... land of cigarettes, tattoos, fireworks, and liquor. There's a great cigar shop down there, Two Guys, next to The Honey Dew...

In the link above, the manufacturer didn't come right out and say that there were packaging problems, per se, but that that they switched from nitrogen-flushed to vacuum-sealed sachets because (emphasis mine): "Dry brewing yeast needs to be stored in an environment with the lowest level of...

Brand-New Package, Same Great Yeast. | Danstar Premium Beer Yeasts - The Dry Yeast Advantage

That's pretty slick! :cool:

Yes, you can do it, but consider washing your yeast. Here's a write-up: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f163/yeast-washing-illustrated-41768/

2201 + 5 = 2206

There's absolutely no harm in using the full amount of yeast for a smaller batch.