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I did use nutrients, but have not been stirring. Is this batch hooped or can I revitalize it.

Hey everyone, So I'm trying my first mead with the cherry berry mead recipe. I used the recommended Wyeast 4184. I just checked the gravity today after two weeks and I've only gone from 1.100 to 1.080. It should be lower than this by now I'd think. I even made a starter! I'm thinking of...

It's finally slowed down and I've just swapped out for a regular airlock. Here's hoping for a nice fg!

I should also add that the blow off has been rendered basically useless. The CO2 is just building in the bucket near the paths of least resistance (lid leaks), and so it doesn't seem to escape through the blow off. I don't get any bubbling in the blowoff water unless I press on the fermenter lid.

I ended up finding a better lid. Sanitized it and swapped it. Hopefully this redirects the blow off a bit more. Should I be worried about yeast loss from the krausen?

So I pitched a starter of Wyeast Trappist high gravity into a belgian tripel. It was in a bucket and I set up a blow off tube knowing that things would get messy. However, as most buckets are not air tight I came home to discover quite the mess! I tried using some tape to keep the lid closed but...

Hey everyone! Another noobish question from me. I'm putting together a recipe for a Tripel I am making and am trying to figure out the OG. Here is the base recipe.... 5.25 gallons 12 lbs Pilsen LME Estimated OG 1.082 I've modified it a bit as such 11 lbs Pilsen LME 1 lbs Belgian Candi...

Maybe this picture can better explain my dilemma. Without the blow off I'm in for a huge mess. What I've been doing is keeping the blow off on and just taking the bung out and swirling it whenever I walk by to rouse the yeast. Will this work? Am I losing a crap load of yeast?

Should I be concerned about my pitch rate now?

I've got it hooked up to a blow off now to prevent a mess. I might take it off later. Did I lose a bunch of yeast? Not that much came out.

Hey everyone! So I am making a starter for my Tripel I will be brewing this week. I used 3.4 litres of water for my Wyeast trappist high gravity yeast as directed by Mr. Malty. However....I came home for lunch today and found a bit of a mess! I was using a 1 gallon glass jug for the starter...

Well according to a abv calculator, my 1.053 to 1.020 should only yield about 4.3% abv. This is gonna be a light porter.

Sorry haha, I guess I didn't even ask a question. What I meant to ask.... Is the beer at the end of fermenting a good indication as to how it will taste eventually? As I said, this wasn't bad, but I wouldn't want to drink a whole pint of it right now. My beer started at 1.053 and got down to...

I used 3.35 oz of corn sugar I believe. Do I have potential bottle bombs?

Hey everyone, So I just bottled my first extract beer which was a pumpkin porter. The final gravity was 1.020 (should have been 1.018 on the high end), but I couldn't get it down anymore after a week of raising the temps and trying to get the yeast back into action. The beer has a bit of a...

This is the calculator I used earlier... http://www.mrmalty.com/calc/calc.html It states with a 1.13 OG, intermittent aeration, I need about 6 litres of start must. This is for ales, but is a starter not a starter?

Is a little over 0.5 lbs of honey enough for a 2 litre starter?

I'm making the Cherry Berry Mead from this site's recipe database. OG is 1.13. The recipe states to only use one pack of 4184 (which is a smack pack I believe). However, from everything else I've read here, one pack will not be NEARLY enough for such a high gravity mead. Then again, I know more...

Hey everyone! So I am making my first Melomel, and I ordered a package of Wyeast 4184 yeast for the 5 gallon batch. Using the Mr. Malty calculator I've determined that this package will not be enough for 5 gallons. Can anyone give me some tips on making a starter with this? Mr. Malty says I...

Will the one vial of Wyeast be enough for 5 gallons? I am fairly new to mead making. Do I need to prepare a starter?