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Well, my Tuesday brew day was delayed. The plan now is to brew on Fri the 1st (ease the hangover by drinking homebrew, ha ha). I'm sure my starter will be done with it's major activity by then, so I plan to cold crash tomorrow night, then decant and pitch on Fri afternoon. I plan a double...

Thanks for the reply Matt. The way I see it, the calculator only has 2 options: 1. Yeast harvested, refrigerated for a month, warmed to room temperature, and pitched. 2. Yeast harvested 2 days ago, then pitched. There doesn't seem to be any way to account for building NEW yeast cells...

Hi all, I'm planning for brew day tomorrow, and I'm going to use some WLP001 I harvested/washed about a month ago and have kept in the fridge (my first attempt at harvesting). On Sunday, I took it out of the fridge, let it rise to room temp, then added about a qt of fresh aerated wart from...

Thanks for the replies all. AZ IPA, I can certianly use improvement in all three of the areas you mentioned. Lowlife, you're absolutely correct. H2P, you are also correct! I wasn't so much concerned that my beer be an "exact" replica of Ruination (in fact, I haven't even tried the two side...

So I'm a pretty new brewer with only 6-7 brew days under my belt. My goal from the beginning (as I'm sure is common) was to brew beer that would be just as good as what I can get at the pub. While my first beers were decent and certainly drinkable, they typically weren't the ones I'd reach for...

Hey gents. I won a "Deadguy clone kit" at a local brewpub awhile back. It has everything but yeast. I need some Pacman, but, as I'd like to brew this weekend, I won't have time to get any. I do, however, have some WLP001 I washed from a Ruination clone last weekend. You can see where...

Thanks gents. Ddub, are you happy with yours? Would you buy one again, or drop the extra couple bucks to get the "normal kind"? Having complete interchangability between kegs is probably worth a little, but probably not much (as long as the disconnects are the same).

I see Kegconnection.com has a sale going on this weekend on a "racetrack" style keg for 18 bucks here: http://stores.kegconnection.com/Detail.bok?no=421 This appears to be different than the other Corney's listed on their website for 30 bucks here...

I've got 2 oz of whole hops floating in my secondary right now. Should I stir (ok, not stir, but maybe "dunk") them every couple of days or so? Or is the risk/reward of contamination not worth it? Seems like almost half of them, even though they're wet, are just sitting on top of the floating...

Holy crap, talk about jumping in with both feet! I'm happy just to get 5 plants going for my second season...

OK, I just swirled it up and poured it again after a 20 minute wait. I still only saw 2 real layers - an amber liquid that was clear on the top (only a few tablespoons now of course, since it hadn't had time to settle) and what appears to be the yeast in suspension. No gunk! I "double...

So Vespa2t, would you suggest I swirl it up again, kind of let it "half settle" (maybe an hour?), then decant the cloudy water off of whatever settles? Sounds like that's my best bet. Thanks.

OK gents, I've read the entire Yeast Washing Illustrated thread (why is it not a sticky anymore?), and believe it or not, after 555 posts, I STILL have a question! This is my first attempt at yeast harvesting BTW. Saturday I racked my beer, swirled up the cake, moved it into a sanitized...

Hey SMOA, I'm also in Gig Harbor (Raft Island). Maybe we should meet up for a brew day sometime.

slightly OT maybe, and apologies in advance if so, but since we're discussing marking..... How do you guys mark your stainless boil kettle? I just have a plastic (HDPE) dowel with marks on it I use.

Seems like there are a lot of posts with what seems to be a "double sanitize". i.e. "first I run them through the dishwasher to sanitize, then I dunk them in a sanitizing soloution". I've never bottled before, but I'd like to give it a try soon (I've spent 4 hours over the last 2 days cleaning...

You let go of a GF that cleaned your house?

So when we talk about a "1 liter starter", is that 1 liter of yeast "sludge", or 1 liter total (including the sludge and the beer). If it's the former, a 1 liter starter would have to be made in a much bigger container, no?

How about find a garage sale fridge to put in the basement/garage as a kegorator? That's what I did after I got married and my kitchen fridge went from 1 shelf food and the rest beer to the other way around. 20 bucks.

Hey Guys, I'm lucky enough to have a number of cases of flip top bottles from travels to Germany over the last few years. I haven't used these for homebrew yet, but plan to in the near future. I was thinking the easiest way to sanitize the bottles would be to run them through the dishwasher...