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So I collected my yeast cake from previous batch...was a 1.048 Helles, I used 3 pure pitch pouches of WLP 830 on that batch in a 1 gallon SNS starter. I forgot to check the born on date for those pouches but I did see about 48 hour lag and was kinda worried about the beer. Brewed on 3/19 and...

My plan is to keg and harvest yeast from current batch on Saturday and get a cell count. Then brew on Sunday, and depending on amount of live yeast cells on Saturday either do a SNS or vitality starter or just make an ale with dry yeast if count is nowhere close.

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im in ... probably can't match @day_trippr but al least another IP address

Hmm it is not the liquid beer changing volume that impacts the headspace pressure. 20 Liters of water at 20 C will still be just about 20 L at 1 C. Actually if I did the math right it would be 19.9661 liters at 1 C but think you can see that change is not really driving a measurable pressure...

Got a microscope and going to do a cell count on coming batch. know I'm overthinking this but lager has been one of those styles I've never gotten right and I'm planning to keep at it till I get it.

agreed ...wet with sanitizer. I don't mess with keg lube on the gasket and no issue holding pressure.

OK this works for you with lagers? I've got a batch going now that I used 3 white labs pure pitches in. I made a 2 gallon shaken-not-stirred starter and the batch was 17 gallons of 1.046. Lag was probably 48 hours before I saw blow off tube activity. I've tried harvesting the yeast before...

I'm wanting to get into lagers and struggling with how to manage yeast requirements. My standard scale is 17 gallons into fermenter. Focusing for now on worts in the 1.046-1.052 range. Prefer not to warm ferment or pressure ferment at this time. I'd like to use liquid yeast. Calculators...

What pressure are you trying to hold? Up to 15 PSI should be easy enough. Getting used to the gasket was a bit of a learning curve for many Spike users. One important thing is the orientation. Make sure you are orienting it correctly with the square end sitting in the channel and the rounded...

I'll throw in another vote for prioritizing kegging (and also vote Corney not Sankey). Like many other new brewers I also focused on making wort and fermenting early in my brewing hobby days and put off kegging but really that step made the entire hobby so much easier and more practical. As my...

Just ordered 2 sacks yesterday. Looks like order is waiting to be picked up now. Thanks for the tip.

Thanks @tneary there were two left when I got there...I grabbed one.

anybody been able to find oxygen cylinders on Long Island lately? I looked a month ago and remember seeing some availability but then decided not to brew and didn't go get it...today nothing anywhere as far as Ace, Tractor Supply, Home Depot and Lowes websites will tell me at least...

Grrrrrrr tried again to find one of these oxygen bottles. None on Long Island as far as I can tell. I'm traveling to Boston in a week or so will see if I can get one there.

same here and haven't really solved it yet last batch I used an air compressor through a hepa filter through my Spike carbonation stone for 15 minutes. Got a lot of foam in the fermentor but really fast strong start to fermentation. However I used new dry yeast packets and I think these are...

Hmm .two batches in your beer is probably decent but I expect it is going to get progressively and dramatically better over next few months. There is a learning curve here and irrespective of how much or how little you spend on ingredients and equipment a little bit of experience really makes...

when my pipeline drys up due to life getting in the way I will go up to the local beer store and buy a quarter keg of something reasonable like lagunitas. Runs about $160. That is half a batch of my standard brew day...so would cost $320 to buy instead of make. My ingredients for most recent...

I use it a lot. I'd estimate over 200 batches with US-05 with about 20% new dry packs and 80% harvesting the yeast from a previous batch. It is a relatively neutral and reliable yeast. Relatively high attenuation, flocs well but can still be used to make a hazy. Appreciates careful...

Thanks again. I'm torn/hesitating. Unit is not quite 3 years old. Might get some kveik while I continue to ponder next steps.