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Starter size is typically determined based off of the assumption of a specific cell-count contained within the vial, not the other way around. That said, depending on how new the vial is, you can typically expect around 70-100 billion cells.

Whoops, my bad. I meant wlp300, not 351.

Ahh ok, I usually try and avoid caramel/crystal malts, but I know a little bit of it is correct to the style... I might look into a smaller amount of carafa then. I think 351 is similar to the wyeast 3068 weihenstephan strain. I typically stick with White Labs because that's what my lhbs carries.

I'd love to do a dunkels weissbier later this fall/early winter to have ready by late winter/early spring. Here's what I have so far, suggestions are appreciated! Dark Wheat Malt (7L) - 50% Dark Munich Malt (20L) - 45% CaraWheat (46L) - 5% 1.0oz Hallertauer Mittelfrueh (4% AA) @ 60min (16.1...

After exactly one week in the chamber I hit 80% attenuation, time for the d-rest!

I always just use 1/2" tubing due to the fact that it fits perfectly over the nozzle of 3-piece airlocks. And going bigger would require rigging something up. I think 1.5 gal worth of headspace with 1/2" tubing for a blowoff would be plenty. But that's just my opinion.

It's likely that they're just asleep. The important thing is that it was fermenting at the right temp for the first few days, which are the most crucial. Raising the temperature should wake them back up to finish the job. Have you taken a gravity reading to see how far along they got before...

Decant most, but not all. I let it sit out until it warms up to the proper pitching temp, then give it a swirl with the remaining beer to get it back into suspension to pitch. I wouldn't throw in any hot water as that would likely shock the yeast.

No personal experience with wlp820, but White Labs themselves claim that it's a much slower starter in its first generation... What was your lag time like the last time you used the 820? That seems like a TON of yeast. Weird. Any movement with a hydrometer reading?

Question time... What are you brewing? What kind of yeast? What's the temperature at? What temp did you pitch at? Has there been airlock activity up to this point and now it's died out? Or has there been zero visible activity?

Is it a food-grade plastic bucket?

Gotcha, thanks! It's not like I was overwhelmed with my hop schedule or anything either... I did an addition at 60 min and one at flameout. Just totally spaced on the tablet at 15. :drunk: Ha! Perfect solution.

Had a great brew day on Sunday for my festbier recipe, but as soon as I got done with chilling the wort and noticed that it didn't look like egg-drop soup, I realized I freaking forgot the whirlfloc tablet during the boil... I guess I'm lucky that's the only thing that went "wrong," but I...

Do you have a link to the recipe? That IS pretty peculiar...

Depends on what you're brewing. I find some early Yes to go well with my more progressive recipes.

Bit of an update, went by my lhbs and he was all out of his usual Briess Munich 10L. Said everyone and their mother came in to buy some for brewing oktoberfests. He had plenty of "Dark" Munich 20L, so I got that instead. Going to take me a bit out of style color-wise for the Festbier, but I'm...

Bit of an update, went by my lhbs and he was all out of his usual Briess Munich 10L. Said everyone and their mother came in to buy some for brewing oktoberfests. He had plenty of "Dark" Munich 20L, so I got that instead. Going to take me a bit out of style color-wise for the Festbier, but I'm...

Just as a little update for the greater Borg knowledge bank, after a cold crash in the primary, that whiteish film is gone.

Ohhh man... Seeing this I realize how super lucky I am that this didn't just happen to me. I set my chamber down to 34 last night to cold crash in my bucket and didn't remove the blow-off. Woke up this morning to the surface of my jug frozen over, but still with the sanitizer in it...

That might be the lighting/reflection of me holding my phone over the fermenter... Nothing really looks "oily," just a slight white film in certain areas.